Sr. Technical Advisor, Subject Matter Expert for Special Project
KBR
- Alexandria, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work as an integral member of a team tasked with a critically important mission for the Department of Defense in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Provide rigorous technical and programmatic oversight of high visibility and high impact programs.
- Build collaborative and productive partnerships across government, industry, and academia.
- Build consensus around technical solutions and interpret and clarify these solutions to government leaders.
- Brief senior leaders on program strategy and roadmaps, and be able to justify decisions and decision making processes under rigorous scrutiny.
- Keep stakeholders engaged and informed in a fast paced, high pressure environment.
- Transform challenges into opportunities, and carry through to execute solutions.
- Participate on project teams, working group, task forces, etc. contributing input with regard to technology vision, opportunities, and challenges.
- Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options supporting T&E infrastructure.
- Facilitate project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating, and supporting to ensure smooth transitions (Valley of Death)
- Ability to obtain & maintain a TS/SCI clearance (requires U.S. citizenship).
- Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 15 years' experience (an additional 8 years' experience may be applied in lieu of degree, and additional degrees may be substituted in lieu of experience)
- Demonstrated proficiency in building collaborative research and development networks across government, industry, and academia.
- Demonstrated ability to generate clear program objectives from scratch while identifying, engaging, and empowering stakeholders.
- Proficiency in consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation, and facilitation of technical capability requirements with mission partners,
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and think beyond established standards and processes,
- Knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends including security and regulatory government & industry requirements,
- Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies,
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately to a variety of audiences.
- A broad understanding/experience in collection, analysis (data integration, pattern recognition, assessments, predictive analysis, risk analysis, etc.) of all types of data (including, but not limited to HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, MASINT, OSINT; CI/CE; CYBER; and operational data); and processing (storage and curation) of complex data sets that can be utilized to train, validate and test capabilities to include AI/ML and NLP models and algorithms,
- Ability to approach problems, challenges, and situations from both a conventional and unconventional perspective. Key traits include having an open mind, creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, diverse knowledge base; collaboration; resilience; agility; and unconventional experiences.
- 10+ years of experience engaging cross-functionally across the DoD (Services, Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, OSD) and US Federal Government Agencies/Departments; industry; and academia,
- Current Top Secret with SCI Eligibility clearance, or higher.