AI Engineering Lead (Public Trust)

Please note: This role is contingent upon contract award. While it is not an immediate opening we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

Our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting department that offers integrated strategic solutions to its public andprivate-sectorclients. ICF has theexpertise agility and commitment to design build andoperatehigh-performance IT engines to support all aspects of our clients business.

ICF isseekingan experienced and drivenArtificial IntelligenceLeadto oversee mission-critical initiatives in support of theGeneral Service Administration(GSA). In this role you will helpintegrate and orchestrate multiple AI agents while driving strategic direction research and development of AI technologies across the organization.

Job Location- Must be able to go on-site 5 days a week to the clients office in Washington DC. Hybrid work flexibility may be available after the first 90 days.

What You Will Do:

• Discovery of valuable problems to solve and validate potential solutions with other product managers customers and the market.

• Develop a deep understanding of the providers technical strategy and architecture business goals and processes to inform product priorities and improvement recommendations.

• Collect the requirements from all relevant stakeholders for this common product/platform.

• Lead product strategy planning and life cycle management efforts to support the ongoing evolution and innovation of the capabilities that unite the overall product portfolio.

• Regularly communicate with product stakeholders and develop strong relationships to surface balance and prioritize feedback from multiple groups such as other product managers sales marketing engineering architecture customer support customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) leaders as well as customers and the market.

• Establish product roadmaps and release plans that satisfy requirements and achieve stakeholder outcomes and which reflect the requirements on other products in the portfolio.

• Monitor business market and technology trends and competitive intelligence to understand how the expectations for these common capabilities may need to change over time.

• Guide and empower the product engineering team to scope plan and deliver work applying established delivery methodologies (e.g. agile methods) and best practices (e.g. reusability).

• Proactively support the identification and resolution of blockers (including technical and resourcing) to achieve product business objectives.

What You Will BringWithYou:

• Must be a US Citizen required by federal client.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field

• 5 years applying advanced AI and automation to streamline operations

• 5 years architecting and implementing large-scale digital transformations (SaaS cloud-native AI-driven)

• 5 years working with major cloud providers (AWS Azure Google) serverless technologies and managed services

• Must be able to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust clearance.

• MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.) as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply.

What We Would Like YouToBringWithYou:

• Experience supporting GSA IT programs is highly preferred

• Mastersdegree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field

• Experiencein developing AI initiatives with federal agency goals managing AIgovernanceand risk.

• Familaritywith federal IT Standards NIST guidelines and security requirements related to theAuthorization to Operate (ATO) process for cloud-deployed applications.

• Hands-on experience deploying and managing AIworkloads and infrastructure within a secure AWS cloud environment. Deepunderstanding of integrating security controls throughout the entire AIlifecycle consistentwithDevSecOpsprinciples.

• Proven history of developinga technical vision and executable strategies that emphasize AI and drive measurable outcomes

• Experience creatingsolutions using open source AI low/no-code platforms agile methods and secure cloud frameworks

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: