Senior Level Project / Program Manager

Responsibilities

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Senior Level Project / Program Manager to support our DC-area offices of the Chief Digital and AI Office in Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington locations.

 

Duties Include:

• Develop a generalized tool to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data

• Participate in DoD and government AI/ML Task Forces, connect with others in DoD working on similar capabilities, and share best practices with an LLM community of practiceExtend a generalized API deployed to NIPR to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data and enable others across the Department to use the API within the paradigm of CDAO / Advana 1.2's self-service model

• Support the installation of the capability on other networks at different classification levels, including SIPRnet and JWICS

• Includes a set of swappable containers with different functions that provide inputs and outputs through an API.

• Develop methodology to test how Search performance (with varying levels of prompt engineering)

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop a cost model for semantic search API use cases

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop and document a strategy and implementation plan to ingest and consistently store unstructured data on the Advana platform, following the Bronze/Silver/Gold table paradigm (i.e. raw files in bronze, parsed/transformed data in silver, cleaned, processed and data available for query in gold)

• Develop an approach to address issues arising from maintaining semantic indices associated with document change management and version control for unstructured data, such as when a new manual comes out to replace a previous version

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• Possess a minimum of ten years of Project Management experience managing complex projects in an IT engineering or big data environment.

• Possess a minimum of an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility

• Possess a minimum of five years of experience managing projects utilizing non-traditional program management methodologies (e.g., Agile) in big data, AI/MLOps, and DevSecOps environments.

• Possess a minimum of five years of experience in a military or other Government environment performing in a related subject area (e.g., project management, engineering, or computer science).

• Ability to track and report aggregated personnel utilization and budget usage across the Search portfolio.

• Strong communications skills: Ability to proactively engage fellow CDAO members within and beyond the team as well as DoD cross-organizational communications.

• Possess an active certification in one of the following: Project Management Institute (PMI), Project Management Professional, PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification, or equivalent program or project management certification.

• Travel: <10 %
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 7-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience.
• Possess a Master of Business and Management (MBM), a Master of Business Administration (MBA), or a master’s degree in a related technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, or Electronics).

Overview

People First. Technology Always.

 

PeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

 

Culture: The name "PeopleTec" was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company's foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

 

Career: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it's through our continuing-educa