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Owns the integrated risk register and quality management framework for a federal healthcare IT deployment. Responsibilities include identifying and scoring risks, defining audit cadence, chairing cross-workstream reviews, producing dashboards for program and government stakeholders, coordinating with readiness and IV&V teams, and driving corrective-action closure. The role requires expertise in CMMI or ISO 9001 quality systems, quantitative risk analysis, federal reporting, and healthcare IT programs.

Leads day-to-day execution of deployment workstreams, managing scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, quality, and status reporting. Coordinates with Government functional leads and matrixed technical teams, maintains integrated master schedules, chairs status meetings, supports deliverables, and escalates issues under the AFRH Program Manager. Requires Federal IT or healthcare IT project delivery experience, U.S. citizenship, and facility access/background investigation clearance.

Manage complex government contract portfolios from award through closeout. Advise program teams and leadership on contractual obligations, risks, compliance, performance, changes, and negotiations. Draft contract correspondence and agreements, support proposals, resolve customer issues, oversee start-up and closeout activities, and ensure adherence to FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, legal requirements, and customer specifications.

Manage government contract portfolios from award through closeout, advising program teams and leadership on contractual obligations, compliance, cost and performance risks. Draft and negotiate agreements, support proposals, monitor contract performance, resolve customer issues, facilitate change management, and coordinate contract modifications, closeout activities, invoices, and evaluations. The role requires extensive FAR and DFARS experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and U.S. citizenship.

Supports ETL pipeline implementation, data ingestion, data quality validation, schema and RBAC configuration, database performance testing, interoperability testing, and production migration activities. Maintains metadata registries, documents ingestion defects and remediation recommendations, validates post-migration data, and maintains database scripts and pipeline code in version control. The position is fully remote and supports a federal data migration program.

Develop and deploy Databricks Delta Live Tables ETL pipelines in a cloud lakehouse environment. Aggregate, normalize, transform, and validate geospatial data from authoritative sources. Document ingestion results, data quality defects, remediation actions, and test outcomes. Maintain version-controlled code with peer reviews, support GIS-based spatial validation, and assist with interoperability testing. The role supports federal endangered-species data integration and requires proficiency in Python or Scala, SQL, data quality validation, schema documentation, and geospatial data concepts.

Owns compliance documentation and security control narratives for an Agentic AI platform. Responsibilities include authoring System Security Plans, managing POA&Ms, coordinating audit evidence, supporting RMF and ATO activities, maintaining policies and SOPs, and partnering with cloud, platform, and security engineers. The role validates that documentation reflects implemented infrastructure and supports CMMC, FedRAMP, DoD, and NIST-aligned compliance efforts.

Develops and maintains enterprise infrastructure automations using Ansible, ARIA, Python, Bash, and PowerShell. Builds RESTful APIs, Infrastructure as Code solutions, CI/CD pipelines, integration workflows, and automated testing frameworks. Supports the full automation development lifecycle, troubleshoots production issues, documents solutions, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, and service teams in Agile environments. Requires advanced infrastructure automation experience, Linux and Windows administration expertise, secure coding knowledge, and Public Trust eligibility.

Designs and develops Python-based reliability tools and cloud solutions on AWS using Terraform. Builds automation, observability, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks; defines SRE standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; participates in incident response, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and postmortems. Collaborates across Agile teams to improve platform reliability, reduce toil, optimize cloud costs, and advance cloud-native engineering practices.

Monitors and investigates security alerts, performs threat hunting, analyzes logs and network traffic, and conducts forensic investigations. Develops SPL queries, operates SIEM and EDR tools, identifies attack techniques, improves SOC processes, documents incidents, and recommends security mitigations. The role also develops procedures, supports SOC projects, advises management, and mentors junior analysts while supporting federal, high-availability systems.