Technical Mission Director (FedD235)
Defenseunicorns · Springfield, VA
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## Technical Mission Director (FedD235) ### Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior **Technical Mission Director** to embed with a government team leading a fast-moving, multi-vendor AI and software modernization effort. This role owns day-to-day execution across government stakeholders, engineering teams, and commercial technology partners—creating the structure and tempo needed to move from prototype to operational capability. The ideal candidate is an **Agile delivery leader** with strong technical fluency across modern software, cloud, DevSecOps, AI/ML, data, and platform engineering. You’ll be credible with engineers and senior government leaders, able to run Scrum in a high-tempo environment, and comfortable turning ambiguity into decisions, priorities, and action. ### Responsibilities - Own day-to-day execution for a multidisciplinary government/industry team and establish the Agile operating rhythm (Scrum ceremonies, backlog management, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning). - Coordinate government stakeholders and multiple technology vendors; keep priorities, dependencies, milestones, and technical risks visible and drive blockers to resolution. - Lead daily cross-vendor synchronization without letting meetings replace execution—create clear owners, decisions, and next actions. - Maintain an integrated delivery plan and provide concise updates on mission outcomes, technical risk, resource needs, decisions, and schedule. - Partner with the Technical Solutions Architect and engineering leads across platform, DevSecOps, data, and AI/agentic disciplines to keep execution aligned with evolving architecture. - Maintain enough technical depth to identify integration, security, data, deployment, or architecture issues early and engage the right experts quickly. - Coordinate transition from prototype environments into classified operational environments (readiness, dependencies, and increasing onsite/SCIF collaboration). - Serve as a trusted technical thought partner to government customers: surface risks, frame options, challenge assumptions constructively, and translate mission needs into executable technical priorities. - Identify follow-on mission needs, expansion opportunities, and adjacent use cases; understand the customer’s acquisition/buying motion and partner with DU growth leadership to shape actionable opportunities. - Capture lessons learned and repeatable delivery patterns to reduce coordination overhead and improve engineering velocity. - Build durable customer relationships and represent Defense Unicorns as a technical thought leader. ### Minimum Experience & Qualifications - **Active TS/SCI clearance** - Local to the **National Capital Region (NCR)**; able to support regular onsite work at a government facility in **Springfield, Virginia** (with increasing onsite/SCIF interaction as the effort matures) - **7+ years** leading Agile software, technology, or mission programs (preferably in government or other mission-critical environments) - Demonstrated hands-on experience with Scrum/Agile delivery (backlog management, sprint planning, dependency management, retrospectives, release planning) - Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple concurrent technical workstreams, government stakeholders, and technology vendors - Strong technical fluency in modern software delivery, **DevSecOps, cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AI/ML, and data platforms** - Ability to unde
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