Senior Technical Director

About the role

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Parsons is looking for a cleared and talented Senior Technical Director to join our growing team! In this role you will get to support key activities in defense of emerging threats in the cybersecurity domain. You will work as part of a team that analyzes data and develops and tailors capabilities with the goal to prevent and eradicate threats to critical U.S. systems.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical strategy and lead the technical execution of program engineering and deployment of advanced solutions (including AI/ML) for cybersecurity program.
• Present technical findings, project updates, and strategic recommendations to mission leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical milestones, ensuring alignment with longer term mission objectives.
• Identify emerging solutions, services, and best practices to keep the team at the forefront of innovation.
• Collaborate with mission leadership and technical points of contact to ensure transparency and alignment of program execution with government requirements.
• Ensure delivery of timely and accurate solutions that support mission outcomes.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for technical issues and support mitigation of risks by proactively keeping mission stakeholders apprised of risks on the critical path of deliverables.
• Translate mission customer qualitative analysis process and goals into quantitative formulations that are coded into software prototypes.
• Oversee the development and implementation of statistical and machine learning techniques to create descriptive and predictive analytics.
• Evaluate and validate the performance of analytics using standard techniques and metrics and oversee development of individual analytic efforts guiding them toward solutions that can scale to large datasets.
• Mentor team of engineers to help them grow professionally.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI research