DEF CTO Cyber Capability Lead

Job Description

As a Cyber Capability Practice Lead & Director in the Defense CTO organization, you are a triple-threat leader who can sell, do, and manage. You lead a defined practice within our larger Cyber portfolio—spanning Zero Trust, Full-Spectrum Cyber (offensive/defensive), OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber—and connect strategy to execution to deliver secure, mission-aligned modernization outcomes across Defense.

You report to the Solutions Sr. Director and lead a high-performing remote team, curating market-ready offerings and talent that accelerate Growth (pursuit, solutioning) and Delivery (execution) from enterprise to edge. You also co-lead IRAD workstreams to shape, prove, and transition leading and bleeding-edge technologies—both from partners and from novel approaches we develop—into differentiated customer outcomes, with measurable transition-to-program (T2P) results.

HOW WILL A CTO CYBER PRACTICE LEAD MAKE AN IMPACT

• Lead a defined Cyber practice: Own and evolve offensive, defensive, OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber offerings, ensuring clear value, reusable assets, and delivery playbooks.
• Be a triple-threat: Partner with Growth to shape pursuits and lead solutioning.
• Develop compliant, compelling architectures and manage a high-performing team with clear operating cadence and outcomes.
• Curate offerings and talent: Build and govern the practice portfolio. Develop talent pipelines, role profiles, and upskilling paths. Align architects and delivery leads to priority pursuits and programs. Drive end-to-end Defense solutioning: Translate mission requirements into architectures aligned with Zero Trust and RMF. Deliver strong proposals and/orals content with technical depth and executive presence.
• Accelerate Growth and Delivery: Shape opportunities, integrate capabilities, and open new business while shortening time-to-value across enterprise IT, weapons/platforms, and OT environments.
• Co-lead IRAD strategy and execution: Set priorities, run experiments, integrate partner and emerging tech, and measure T2P outcomes. Operationalize wins across the portfolio. Stand up communities of practice: Create patterns, playbooks, and reusable assets for modernizing enterprise and edge environments. Codify best practices and broadcast wins.
• Elevate delivery excellence: Align methods to customer needs, enforce outcome metrics, and coach teams to perform in dynamic selling and delivery environments.
• Lead across a matrix: Drive clear decisions with executive presence, collaborating across CTO, Growth, and Delivery organizations.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business-related field or equivalent experience.
• Required Experience: 12+ years of progressive technical and team leadership experience with cyber, Zero Trust, infrastructure, and edge computing technologies in both selling (capture/solutioning) and delivery contexts; demonstrated leadership of a practice within a larger portfolio of offerings; background spanning Full-Spectrum Cyber, Defensive, and DoW mission with application across Enterprise IT, weapons/platforms, and OT/ICS environments.
• Security clearance Level: SECRET required to start with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
• Required Skills and Abilities: Strong communication, analytical, time management, and organizational discipline to drive highly technical teams in a rapidly evolving business environment; deep cyber technical skills and the ability to articulate and apply Zero Trust/RMF in proposal, orals, and delivery settings.
• Preferred Skills: Experience working with Government Customers, specifically the U.S. Military and DoW mission contexts (including constrained/SAP environments).

Additional Information

US Citizenship Required: Yes
Job Family: Technical Solutions
Skills: Cybersecurity, Information Technology (IT), Team Leadership
Certifications: None
Experience: 10 + years of related experience
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Pay: $187,179 - $241,500
Schedule: Hybrid