Emerging Technology Specialist

Position Overview

Serve as a strategic advisor to a Federal Government program office on emerging technologies, enterprise platforms, licensing models, and technology adoption opportunities.
Recommend opportunities to rationalize, consolidate, modernize, retire, or optimize technologies, platforms, software licenses, and related investments to improve portfolio performance and reduce duplication.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior advisor for vendor management and emerging technology support activities, providing direction across acquisition support, contract analysis, license optimization, reporting, data analytics, workflow improvement, and operational coordination.
• Identify, evaluate, and analyze emerging technologies and commercial products to determine maturity, enterprise readiness, technical fit, risks, costs, licensing implications, security considerations, and adoption requirements.
• Conduct structured analysis of market trends, vendor roadmaps, product capabilities, interoperability requirements, implementation constraints, and enterprise architecture impacts to support technology investment and adoption decisions.
• Evaluate software and hardware license utilization, vendor obligations, usage data, and technology inventories to identify cost savings, compliance risks, underused assets, and opportunities for consolidation or optimization.
• Advise the Government on innovative licensing strategies, enterprise agreements, entitlement management, product rationalization, and approaches that improve value, flexibility, compliance, and cost control.
• Engage with technology vendors to clarify capabilities, licensing structures, product roadmaps, usage rights, pricing considerations, service commitments, and options for improved performance, accountability, and value.
• Translate business, acquisition, technology, and vendor management needs into clear requirements, reports, briefings, decision-support materials, recommendations, and operational solutions.
• Cook up with program leadership, Government stakeholders, vendors, project management, and functional leads to manage priorities, resolve issues, monitor progress, and support timely completion of contract deliverables.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, issue papers, recommendations, briefing content, and other artifacts that support technology portfolio optimization, license management, vendor engagement, and senior leadership decision-making.
• Facilitate meetings, briefings, training sessions, workshops, vendor discussions, and stakeholder engagements to advise customers on existing and emerging products, technologies, benefits, risks, and adoption considerations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience serving as a technical lead, senior advisor, or strategic consultant in a Federal Government environment, supporting emerging technology evaluation, software asset management, vendor management, acquisition support, contract administration, or IT portfolio management.
• Experience with major enterprise technology platforms, emerging technologies, and commercial software ecosystems such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Atlassian, with an understanding of platform capabilities, licensing considerations, usage patterns, adoption risks, and vendor management implications.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze emerging technologies, assess market trends and vendor roadmaps, compare product capabilities and licensing models, evaluate enterprise architecture and security implications, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for Government stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of vendor management, contract support, procurement/acquisition workflows, service performance tracking, license utilization, issue/risk management, and related reporting requirements.
• Strong ability to analyze data, prepare reports, develop metrics, create decision-support materials, and communicate findings to technical, business, acquisition, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing SOPs, process maps, requirements documentation, meeting materials, status reports, technical recommendations, and executive-level briefings.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint; ability to learn and support customer-specific systems and repositories.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings, brief leadership, and coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on-site, manage competing priorities, and deliver accurate, high-quality work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Active Public Trust clearance or eligibility to obtain a suitability determination.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP), CISSP, cloud-related certification, software asset management certification, or other relevant technical or management certification.
• Experience performing emerging technology assessments, market scans, product comparisons, technology maturity evaluations, pilot recommendations, adoption roadmaps, or investment analyses for large enterprise or Government environments.
• Experience supporting a Federal Government program management office, preferably within a Federal Civilian Agency environment.
• Deep experience with Salesforce and ServiceNow.
• Experience with data visualization, dashboards, workflow automation, or reporting tools such as Power BI, Excel advanced analytics, SharePoint lists, Power Automate, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with federal acquisition regulations, Government acquisition practices, contract documentation, procurement support processes, and vendor performance management.