IT Strategy and Portfolio Lead

About Zaden Technologies, Inc.

Join Zaden Technologies on our mission to simplify the delivery and improve the utility of software products for our customers. At Zaden, we believe that our employees are our greatest assets. We hire the right candidates with the right skill sets who fit our culture of customer obsession, innovation, and continuous learning. We are our customer’s biggest advocate and we are looking for like-minded individuals who encompass these same ideals. It is important to us to offer you competitive pay and comprehensive benefits with opportunities that match your life and propel your career!

This position is contingent upon contract award. Start date follows award and a 30-day transition.

Be the senior strategic and operational advisor to a Government CIO for a DoD cyber mission customer in the Baltimore-Washington area. You'll drive enterprise IT and cybersecurity initiatives from strategy through execution: portfolio governance, enterprise architecture, cloud and data strategy, and the planning and briefing cadence a CIO and CISO run on.

What you'll do:

• Develop, maintain and align enterprise IT strategic initiatives, portfolio and acquisition strategies and roadmaps, synchronized with the customer's mission and cyber frameworks.
• Lead enterprise IT architecture, cloud computing strategy and enterprise data strategy, and run portfolio governance with clear structures, processes and reporting.
• Optimize IT resource allocation and program dependencies with data-driven analysis, including cost-benefit analyses for build-versus-buy decisions.
• Brief the CIO and CISO on agency-wide planned, recommended and directed actions.
• Lead teams that receive, plan, execute and report on orders issued by USCYBERCOM or a subordinate command, or another commander with authority over the customer's systems.
• Lead teams running CI/CD pipelines, hybrid and multi-cloud migrations, and modern data platforms.

Must have:

• An active TS/SCI clearance at the time of application (U.S. citizenship required).
• PMP certification.
• Within the last three years, at least one year leading and supervising teams working across the DoDI 8140 workforce elements: IT (cyberspace), cybersecurity, software engineering, and data/AI.
• Within the last five years, experience briefing a CIO and CISO on agency-wide planned, recommended and directed actions.
• Within the last seven years, at least two years overseeing personnel executing orders from USCYBERCOM or a subordinate command, the National Manager for National Security Systems, or another commander with authority over the supported systems.

Also required (the Government verifies these at contract start):

• Within the last ten years, at least three years leading and supervising teams in Government and private networking and infrastructure environments, classified and unclassified.
• Within the last ten years, at least three years building, operating, securing, defending and extending LAN/WAN systems: wireless, firewalls, routing and switching, IPv6, VPN, cloud, virtualized servers and storage.
• Within the last seven years, at least five years with unified communications, including design, installation, maintenance and administration of VTC systems across unclassified, Secret and TS/SCI environments.
• Within the last three years, at least one year leading teams running a CI/CD pipeline with containerization, micro-segmentation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Within the last five years, at least two years leading teams migrating legacy systems into multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Within the last seven years, at least two years leading personnel developing and implementing data lakes and modern data strategies.

Pay and benefits:

Pay range: $130,000 to $155,000 per year. Benefits include medical coverage with HSA and FSA options, a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, sick leave and flexible holidays, and a commuter benefit.

Clearance:

An active TS/SCI clearance (eligibility for access to SCI) is required at the time of application and must be maintained. U.S. citizenship is required for the clearance.

Equal opportunity:

Zaden Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status (disability/vet), or any other characteristic protected by law.