Project Manager (Hybrid)

Project Manager

Location: Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, or Arlington

Hybrid (must be able to commute to one of the above offices 2-3 times per week)

Clearance Required: must have an active Top-Secret (TS) clearance (must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope)

Position Overview

Supports the Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer's (CDAO) Mission Analytics / Core Analytics Products, Search Products Portfolio, and Unstructured Data Search Enhanced by AI/ML (UD/SEAM).

Major Duties/Tasks

• Assists with planning, developing, testing, and documenting Search Portfolio products.
• Applies business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisition
  
  

process/planning, and reengineering old methodologies and principles.

• Support agency teams in development and management of milestones, goals, and
  
  

deliverables for each of the Search Portfolio products

• Coordinating and rationalizing CDAO’s technical efforts to support AI/ML enabled
  
  

indexing, search, and augmented retrieval of unstructured data sets.

• Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design
  
  

patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.

• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance
  
  

standards.

• Works with mission teams to engage with potential customers within the DOD and
  
  

identifies and evaluates prospective projects

Requirements

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5-7 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 3 years of
  
  

experience.

Required Skills/Experience

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and with the
  
  

Product Owner role within the Scaled Agile Framework.

• Ability to identify key users and non-customer stakeholders, as well as to balancing the
  
  

needs of all product stakeholders.

• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests and turn those into user
  
  

stories and tasks for a product backlog.

• Experience grooming and prioritizing SCRUM team backlogs
• Ability to coordinate product backlogs across development teams to effectively share
  
  

subject matter experts, ensuring all product teams maintain velocity.

• Ability to analyze and recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and
  
  

facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.

• DevSecOps experience, knowledge of CI/CD tooling.
• Experience working with software and data engineers developing products integrating
  
  

containerized environments.

• Experience working with software engineers and data scientists utilizing distributed
  
  

computing environments for AI/ML and Big Data workloads, such as Apache Spark or

Databricks

• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services and current front-end
  
  

frameworks used by the development teams.

• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving
• Experience with multi-intelligence and multi-domain systems and understanding
  
  

of current object and activity-based models in the community.

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• An active TS/SCI clearance
  
  

Experience With

• the DoD’s CDAO, Advana, or other CDAO products
• Agile methodology
• AI-enhanced search
• AI/ML for information retrieval and insight extraction
  
  

About Elder Research, Inc

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.