Sr Director, Technology Strategy and Innovation

About the role

This is a player-coach role at the intersection of DHS mission, Alpha Omega capability, and embedded technologists. You will own the technical motion across the full DHS growth cycle, from first conversation through orals, code challenges, and Day 1 of execution.

Responsibilities

• Carry the executive voice: Set the bar for technical communication. Present to DHS engineers and senior executives with equal command, representing Alpha Omega as a thought leader at industry forums and customer briefings.
• Align technology with business strategy (Close the loop): Act as a strategic advisor bringing insights from the field directly to product, engineering, and capability leadership.
• Ensure our roadmaps proactively meet evolving federal compliance and modernization standards.
• Direct technical strategy and innovation (Own the technical win): Lead executive technical discovery, enterprise solution architecture, oral presentations, and capability demonstrations across our highest-stakes DHS pursuits.
• Embed with the pursuit. Sit alongside capture, delivery, and DHS customer engineering teams to translate mission requirements into saleable reference architectures that are Zero Trust and Cloud First aligned environments, creating credible execution plans that win.
• Ship the proof. Stand up proofs of concept and demo environments that show, rather than tell, how Continuum Design, Code, Connect, and Secure compress timelines and reduce risk inside DHS environments.
• Build the lab. Build and extend the Continuum Lab as a Center of Excellence, including reference implementations, accelerator templates, scripted demos, agentic workflows, and reusable solution patterns the entire growth org can pull off the shelf.
• Codify the motion. Capture what works into executive playbooks, reference architectures, and onboarding material to rapidly scale the forward deployed engineering function.
• Write the code. Contribute hands-on delivery when clarity, credibility, or momentum depends on it.

  Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required by the federal customer.
  • 15+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise technology strategy, modernization, and digital transformation programs across regulated federal environments, with multi-million-dollar program ownership for large federal agencies.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development, solutions engineering, or platform architecture experience, including modern cloud-native stacks (Azure and / or AWS), one or more of Python, TypeScript, or .NET, infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, and CI / CD.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in a Federal environment, with significant depth in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) domain, including direct work with components such as USCIS, CBP, ICE, TSA, USCG, CISA, FEMA, S&T, or DHS Headquarters.
  • Proven ability to scope, justify, and steward budget for a Center of Excellence and the Continuum Lab, and to build a small, high-performance, hands-on team that ships real innovation, reference architectures, and production-ready MVPs.
  • Strong executive presence with proven ability to engage senior government leaders at the SES level, agency CIO, and agency CTO, and to present growth and technology strategy credibly to C-suite leadership.
  • Proven ability to work across a matrixed organization, collaborating closely with capture, business development, delivery, product, engineering, security, and corporate functions to land complex, multi-stakeholder pursuits.

  Qualifications

  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree.

  Skills

  • One or more relevant certifications preferred: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, CISSP, Security+, PMP, ITIL.

  Benefits

  • 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave.
  • Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year).
  • Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan).
  • Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums.
  • 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service.
  • FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans.
  • Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit.

  Pay

  The likely salary range for this position is $185,000 - $250,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

  Schedule

  Hybrid, Vienna VA

  Benefits

  • See below, to name a few:
  • 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave.
  • Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year).
  • Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan).
  • Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums.
  • 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service.
  • FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans.
  • Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit.

  Company

  Alpha Omega is an award-winning solutions provider dedicated to delivering mission-enabling technology and strategic solutions for our customers. Since our founding in 2016, we have grown to over 700 employees nationwide consisting of former operators, technologists, and strategists who bring decades of government and industry experience. They are united by one purpose: ensuring our nation’s continued global leadership. We have a unified operating model providing technical capabilities and solutions for customers across two main business units: National Security – supporting agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Navy, Air Force, Army, and the Department of State (DOS). National Resilience – supporting agencies such as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Treasury, Health & Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Through strategic partnerships, intellectual property, and relentless drive for innovation, Alpha Omega is shaping the future of government technology. We are proud to be a Virginia Best Places to Work 8 times, an Inc. 5000 honoree 7 times, and a Washington Post Top Workplaces 4 times. Join us in driving transformation that secures the nation's future.

  Values

  • Harmony
  • Engagement
  • Accountability
  • Resourcefulness
  • Tenacity

  Equal Opportunity Employer

  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.