Senior Operations Integrator (Enterprise Operations Integrator)

About the role

The Senior Operations Integrator serves as an enterprise-level operations integration and planning advisor supporting national defense priorities and Defense Agency executive leadership. This role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into integrated operational plans, concepts, and executable options while maintaining enterprise-wide awareness of organizational operations, priorities, capabilities, dependencies, and risks. The Enterprise Operations Integrator synchronizes Department of War (DoW), Intelligence Community (IC), Interagency (IA), and Law Enforcement (LE) capabilities and authorities and coordinates across government and private-sector partners to advance mission objectives. Serving as a primary advisor to senior executive leadership, the individual will provide decision support, identify cross-organizational opportunities and conflicts, facilitate enterprise-level planning, and conduct executive engagements with senior government and private-sector leaders. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in operational integration, compartmented planning, strategic and operational problem solving, capability development, executive engagement, and the development of actionable options for senior national security decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary operations integration and planning advisor to Defense Agency executive leadership on enterprise-wide mission priorities, operations, risks, and opportunities.
• Maintain comprehensive awareness of organizational operations, operational concepts, strategic initiatives, capabilities, dependencies, and partner activities to support executive-level decision-making.
• Translate strategic guidance and national defense priorities into integrated operational plans, concepts, requirements, and executable courses of action.
• Lead compartmented and sensitive planning efforts, ensuring appropriate coordination, synchronization, deconfliction, and protection of mission information.
• Identify enterprise-level mission gaps, seams, risks, and opportunities and develop actionable options that integrate operational, intelligence, technical, commercial, and partner capabilities.
• Advise senior leaders on operational tradeoffs, dependencies, authorities, resource requirements, sequencing, and potential mission impacts.
• Coordinate across organizational components, government agencies, operational commands, intelligence partners, law enforcement entities, and private-sector organizations to align activities and resolve cross-enterprise challenges.
• Plan, prepare, and conduct executive-level engagements with senior government officials, industry executives, mission partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver executive briefings, decision papers, operational assessments, and recommendations that provide senior leaders with clear, defensible, and executable options.

Requirements

• 20+ years of professional experience supporting national security, military operations, intelligence operations, interagency activities, or complex mission environments.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior advisor to executive-level government, military, intelligence, or national security leadership.
• Deep expertise in operational integration, operational planning, strategic planning, campaign planning, or mission synchronization.
• Demonstrated experience translating strategic guidance into operational concepts, integrated plans, requirements, and executable courses of action.
• Demonstrated experience integrating capabilities and authorities across DoW, IC, interagency, law enforcement, or comparable mission partners.
• Significant experience supporting compartmented, highly sensitive, or special-access planning and operational environments.
• Proven ability to identify cross-organizational dependencies, conflicts, risks, and opportunities and develop integrated approaches to address them.
• Experience conducting executive-level engagements and communicating complex operational issues to senior government and private-sector leaders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including development and delivery of executive decision-support products.