ICT Interoperability Project Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the development of critical policy, architecture, and strategy documents, including Courses of Action (COAs) for strategic architectures, network access policies, and system accreditation strategies.
• Serve as the primary liaison and action officer orchestrating engagements across a wide range of U.S. and Australian stakeholders, including PEO Digital, NAVIFOR, DISA, NIWC PAC, ONI, COMSUBFOR, and RAN counterparts, to define requirements and ensure strategic alignment.
• Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate complex technical, financial, and programmatic risks. This includes addressing major transport circuit cost and schedule overruns, managing engineering concerns on emerging solutions, and resolving critical access and authentication challenges.
• Review, analyze, and refine high-level capability requirements documents to ensure technical feasibility and long-term sustainment, such as mandating hybrid IT service models.
• Drive planning efforts for major technical installations and workshops, including coordinating logistics for "fly away" kits, baselining crypto and COMSEC account requirements, JWICS installations, and shaping the agenda for international planning workshops.
• Develop and deliver strategic communications, including flag-level briefings, talking points, and Government Executive Memos (GEMs), to ensure leadership awareness and drive decision-making on critical issues.
• Lead and motivate purpose-built teams across functional, organizational, and international boundaries to achieve complex objectives, such as establishing pilot programs for CUI collaboration and developing Exception to Policy (ETP) packages for critical technologies.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years’ experience with Federal Government, program management, or systems integration.
• Clearance: Active Secret, with the ability to maintain it throughout employment.
• Demonstrated experience with TYCOM staff or other Echelon 3+ Navy staff operations.
• Expertise in managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology programs, preferably within a DoD or international context.
• Deep understanding of the US Navy Submarine Community and its operational environment (preferred SSNs).
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and mitigate programmatic and technical risk.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with extensive experience drafting formal policy, technical papers, and flag-level correspondence and briefings.
• Experience working directly with international partners; capable of effectively liaising between military, engineering, and government stakeholders on complex technical and policy issues.
• Superior organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive progress on multiple workstreams simultaneously.