Data Task Lead

Position Overview Type: Full-Time

Location: Linthicum Heights, MD

Travel: Some expected

Clearance: Department of Defense (DoD) TS/SCI security clearance

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizenship required

Summary/Objective

Five Stones Research Corporation (5SRC) is seeking energetic candidates to join our established and growing Huntsville-headquartered team. The Data Task Lead oversees the design, governance, and modernization of the enterprise IT ecosystem. This role manages architecture, data management, and solution design activities to ensure secure, scalable, and interoperable outcomes. The position serves as the primary technical liaison between government stakeholders and contractors, ensures the quality of all technical deliverables, and advises on architectural risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities. THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD.

Essential Functions

• Develop, maintain and govern the enterprise technical architecture, ensuring alignment with DoDAF, Zero Trust principles and the strategic mandates.
• Lead the technical assessment and design of new IT solutions so that architectural integrity, scalability, and interoperability are maintained for development or acquisition.
• Co-lead the creation and maintenance of enterprise technology roadmaps, guiding the transition from legacy systems to modernized, cloud-native and hybrid platforms; maintain the IT Enterprise roadmap.
• Lead and supervise teams developing the CI/CD pipeline; containerization, micro-segmentation, Infrastructure as Code and producing ATO/cATO automation capabilities; implement IaC/CaC, continuous monitoring and observability, data tagging and attribution, and the configuration management system.
• Establish, maintain and evolve the CADO-IS enterprise architecture under DoDAF: deliver the CADO-IS Enterprise Architecture Report; deliver the CADO-IS Configuration Management Plan and run CADO-IS configuration management across stakeholders.
• Lead implementation and operation of multi-impact-level environments across the Cloud Environment (IL2/IL4/IL5/IL6) and on-premises enclaves logging across ATO/cATO boundaries, continuous monitoring, Cross Domain Solutions and CSSP capability integration.
• Direct maintenance of the VDP VRMN systems and the automated NIPR/SIPR/DIB vulnerability-report synchronization; promote Automated Data Obfuscation adoption with mission partners.
• Establish and maintain IT project governance structures and manage the full IT and cybersecurity project lifecycle, delivering the IT Project Governance Structures package regularly.
• Lead the enterprise data-governance framework, interoperable data standards, tagging and metadata management, data-quality monitoring and the business-intelligence environment in the Microsoft technology stack; lead interagency data sharing, records management under NARA schedules, and knowledge management.
• Lead the AI/ML lifecycle; use-case identification, data readiness, model development, test, validation, deployment and continuous monitoring under DevSecOps principles.
• Provide subject-matter expertise consistent with the DoDM 8140 Enterprise Architect and Software/Cloud Architect work roles; representative on the EA Council and Cloud Governance Council; deliver design and as-built documentation, user manuals and training materials.
• Supervise teams.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor of Science from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or Engineering with a minimum of five years experience in the last ten years in each of the following:
• Designing, implementing and maintaining enterprise-scale IT solutions in a DoD or Intelligence Community environment.
• Hands-on experience developing architectural artifacts in accordance with the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
• Developing and implementing an enterprise data governance framework, including data modeling, data quality management and establishing a data catalog.
• Designing and managing solutions within hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) environments at DoD Impact Levels 4, 5 and 6.
• Plus: Ten years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert; TOGAF; CISSP or CCSP; ITIL 4; PMP.
• Experience standing up or operating a cATO pipeline on AWS GovCloud with eMASS control inheritance, and migrating workloads from Azure IL4/IL5.
• Cross Domain Solution design and SIPR-connected environments; Windows and RHEL administration depth sufficient to supervise the DAMO FTE.
• Data-platform and BI delivery on the DAF Microsoft stack (Power BI, Fabric or Synapse, DAF365 SharePoint); MongoDB and Oracle; Salesforce (DS1); records- and knowledge-management program experience; applied AI/ML with DevSecOps model lifecycle controls.

What We Offer:

• 401(k) Matching
• Company Events
• Dental Insurance
• Employee Recognition Programs
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Performance Incentives
• Student Loan Repayment
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Vision Insurance

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 business days. If a candidate has not been selected at that time, it will continue to be posted until a suitable candidate is selected or the position is closed. To be considered for this position, applicants must apply online by clicking "Apply" on the specific position on our careers site.

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

Salary range: $165,000 - $205,000