Senior Technical Engagement Lead

About the role

The Senior Technical Engagement Lead in Threat Analysis will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of a portfolio of technical projects supporting Intelligence Community (IC) mission partners. They will partner with the Cybersecurity Innovations and Initiatives (CII) team to coordinate with IC mission partners, ensuring project performance meets expectations, deliverables are on schedule, and technical approaches remain aligned with partner needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop an IC mission partner technical strategy in alignment with TA’s and CERT’s broader technical strategy.
• Lead the technical execution of TA's portfolio of projects for IC mission partners, ensuring plans are sound and aligned with the state-of-the-art in malware analysis, vulnerability research, and/or AI security.
• This includes conducting regular internal TA project reviews, evaluating technical progress, delivery quality, and team performance.
• Approve externally delivered products, ensuring all internal quality, safety, and security requirements are met.
• Foster a team culture of technical rigor, accountability, and cross-team collaboration.
• Cook up a storm with SEI and CMU support functions (including security, IT, contracting, and human resources) to ensure project teams have what they need to execute.
• Serve as a primary technical liaison to IC mission partners alongside our CII team, conducting regular project reviews to assess how TA work is meeting their operational needs and where adjustments are required.
• Cultivate a culture on projects that encourages team members to create and pursue new initiatives for future transition to our intelligence community mission partners.
• Contribute to strategic planning by synthesizing customer feedback and project performance data into recommendations for future technical direction.
• Represent the CERT technical portfolio of work and operations; communicate with external mission partners and internal collaborators in concert with CERT directorates and teams.

Requirements

• A BS in computer science, software engineering, networking, information systems, or a related technical field with ten (10) years of experience; MS in computer science or technical/engineering field with eight (8) years of experience; PhD in computer science or technical/engineering field with five (5) years of experience or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• You have a willingness to travel (25%) outside of your office location to other SEI offices, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings.
• You will be subject to a background investigation, and you must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of War security clearance.