Integration Manager - SME

Summary

Integration Manager, SME

Fort Belvoir, VA/Hybrid

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level! 

At Cyberstar, we aim to analyze and boost human and business performance through the implementation of business process redesign and information technology (IT) modernization to include data analytics and cloud computing.

We offer an alternate solution to improving the quality and effectiveness of business operations. In an ever-changing economy, Cyberstar helps companies better read and understand their market data through the synchronization of process innovation, human dynamics, analysis, and the integration of data technology capabilities, to ensure functional optimization in their business.

The Force Management Enterprise Capability (FMEC) Product Management Office is responsible for delivering software solutions and support services to support the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve in maintaining mobilization, safety, personnel, and force authorization requirements. Furthermore, RCAS/FMS is also responsible for delivering software solutions and supporting the DA G-3/5/7 with the Army’s force structure management, processes, and readiness.

The Integration Manager, SME provides senior-level technical leadership, oversight, and integration assurance for a complex software delivery environment. Serves as the government’s technical representative for solution-level architecture, Agile delivery alignment, cross-team integration, technical risk management, and verification of contractor-delivered software products. The Integration Manager, SME independently evaluates whether SI development activities, technical artifacts, integration practices, and delivered capabilities align with approved requirements, architecture, cybersecurity constraints, quality standards, and program objectives. The incumbent provides technical recommendations to program leadership and supports informed acceptance, prioritization, risk, and investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME-level oversight of the SI’s software development, integration, testing, release, and sustainment activities across the solution train.
• Assess alignment between SI execution and approved program requirements, product roadmaps, architectural standards, engineering plans, and delivery objectives.
• Evaluate solution-level dependencies, interfaces, integration points, data flows, and technical constraints across Agile Release Trains (ARTs), product teams, external systems, and mission partners.
• Review and assess SI technical deliverables, including system architecture products, design documentation, interface specifications, backlog artifacts, test plans, release plans, deployment documentation, and technical debt management plans.
• Identify technical risks, integration gaps, architectural inconsistencies, delivery impediments, and potential impacts to cost, schedule, performance, cybersecurity, and operational suitability.
• Develop and present technically sound findings, recommendations, courses of action, and decision briefs for program leadership.
• Assess the adequacy of program increment objectives, dependency management, release readiness criteria, sprint or iteration outcomes, and software delivery metrics.
• Evaluate whether the SI’s backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation, and technical planning practices sufficiently address approved requirements, architecture, security, testability, and sustainment considerations.
• Review delivery performance trends and recommend corrective actions when technical execution does not meet established objectives or quality expectations.
• Support technical reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and other engineering forums by preparing analyses, documenting findings, and tracking disposition of actions.
• Recommend acceptance criteria, exit criteria, and readiness thresholds for releases, deployments, and major capability increments.
• Identify gaps between demonstrated functionality and required operational outcomes and recommend remediation priorities.
• Support independent technical assessments, audits, program reviews, and milestone decision activities as directed.
• Serve as a principal technical liaison among program leadership, engineering teams, product management, cybersecurity personnel, mission stakeholders, and the SI.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related technical field. or BS with equivalent years of experience.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in software engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, technical program management, or large-scale system integration.
• Possess relevant agile certifications such as SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Solution Train Engineer, Certified Scrum Professional, AWS/Azure/GCP architecture certification, or comparable credentials.
• Must possess and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• Successfully pass background and drug screening

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Salesforce MuleSoft and Provar (desired) 
• Expert knowledge of software development lifecycle processes, systems engineering principles, and solution-level integration practices.
• Ability to assess technical maturity, architectural soundness, release readiness, and development risk using qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Knowledge of Agile-at-scale concepts, including ARTs, program increments, cross-team dependency management, system demonstrations, inspect-and-adapt activities, and solution delivery planning.
• Ability to distinguish between appropriate technical oversight and day-to-day direction of contractor personnel.
• Skill in identifying root causes of delivery problems and developing practical, risk-informed recommendations.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms 
• Possess interpersonal skills and collaborative style
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Shall have the required skills, training, and experience necessary to use the following software program(s): Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook), Microsoft Products (SharePoint, Power Bi, Power Automate and Teams).

How you’ll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. 

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers. 

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits. 

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you. 

Chenega MIOS’s culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives. 

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities. 

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world. 

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#Cyberstar, LLC

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $175,200.00/Yr. Up to USD $219,000.00/Yr.