MissionWorks Solutions Executive
Herndon, VA - USA
Job Summary
Unissant Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise data acumen and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty integrity and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization please visit us at .
We are seeking a MissionWorks Solutions Executive to join our team and lead the development of mission-centered technology solutions across Unissants customer and growth portfolio.
The ideal candidate is a senior technology and mission leader who can move fluently between customer need technical strategy growth and execution. This individual will help define and lead MissionWorks as a solution-development capability: identifying high-value mission problems asking the questions that clarify what a customer actually needs designing an achievable path from concept to operational capability and leading teams that build and deploy the solution.
This leader will not simply respond to opportunities. They will help create them. The MissionWorks Solutions Executive will identify emerging customer challenges shape innovative concepts before formal procurements exist rapidly demonstrate value through prototypes and pilots and guide the journey from idea to funded program and operational capability.
This is not a traditional enterprise architect delivery executive or narrow technology-specialist role. The MissionWorks Solutions Executive must understand the interaction among data applications cloud infrastructure integration cybersecurity operations and artificial intelligence. They must be able to engage credibly with executives government decision-makers mission operators growth teams and engineers; make sound tradeoffs; and turn complex ideas into deployable solutions that deliver measurable value.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own the MissionWorks solution vision technical direction delivery approach and evolving capability roadmap.
- Identify emerging customer challenges unmet mission needs and market opportunities that can be shaped before a formal solicitation or funded program exists.
- Partner with customer executives mission owners program leaders capture teams and technical stakeholders to identify operational challenges priority use cases and opportunities for differentiated solutions.
- Lead consultative discovery sessions to clarify desired outcomes constraints dependencies workflow impacts data readiness security requirements adoption risks and success measures.
- Translate mission and business challenges into solution concepts technical approaches phased roadmaps prototypes pilots and operational delivery plans.
- Create direct and position rapid prototypes demonstrations and minimum viable solutions that test customer value influence customer thinking and establish a credible path to production and funded delivery.
- Shape opportunities through the full lifecycle-from early concept development and customer engagement through capture proposal support solutioning pilot execution and transition to sustained delivery.
- Design and guide solutions that may span applications APIs data platforms cloud services integration workflow automation cybersecurity analytics and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Lead mentor and provide technical direction to AI Solutions Engineers and future MissionWorks team members.
- Establish reusable solution patterns technical accelerators implementation playbooks reference architectures and demonstrations that can be applied across customers and programs.
- Serve as a senior technical and mission-facing representative in customer meetings executive briefings technical reviews demonstrations industry discussions and growth activities.
- Assess technical feasibility delivery risk security implications integration complexity cost schedule operational readiness acquisition constraints and long-term sustainment needs.
- Partner with program and delivery leaders to transition successful solutions into operational environments with clear ownership deployment support and enhancement plans.
- Help define MissionWorks staffing needs team structure delivery practices technical investments and strategic priorities as the capability expands.
- Build productive partnerships across Unissants delivery growth technology and operations teams to convert innovative concepts into credible scalable offerings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Work Experience and Job Skills:
- Twelve or more years of progressive experience in technology leadership solution delivery software engineering cloud data enterprise applications digital transformation product development innovation or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated history of personally building technologies products solutions practices businesses partnerships or revenue streams from concept through measurable results.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technology solutions from an ambiguous customer need through solution design prototype or pilot development deployment and operational adoption.
- Broad technical fluency across modern cloud environments enterprise applications integration patterns APIs data architecture software delivery automation and AI-enabled systems.
- Experience designing building directing or deploying practical AI automation analytics data or agent-based capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to identify unmet customer needs influence customer thinking shape opportunities before solicitations exist and convert pilots or prototypes into funded work or sustained programs.
- Demonstrated ability to engage senior executives government decision-makers mission owners engineers architects operators and program leaders with equal credibility.
- Strong customer discovery and consultative skills including the ability to challenge assumptions uncover root problems frame options and guide decision-making.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams in complex regulated or mission-critical environments.
- Ability to balance innovation speed and calculated risk-taking with security governance maintainability reliability cost schedule acquisition realities and user adoption.
- Demonstrated ownership mentality bias toward action resourcefulness intellectual curiosity technical credibility humility and self-awareness.
- Experience supporting federal public-sector defense intelligence healthcare or similarly complex enterprise customers is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting capture proposal development technical solutioning customer-facing business development or market shaping is preferred.
- Experience founding scaling advising or operating within a high-growth technology startup innovation lab product incubation function venture-building environment or emerging-technology practice is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and solution recommendations clearly to executive and nontechnical audiences.
Education:
- Bachelors Degree is required. Preferred field of study in Computer Science Information Technology Information Systems Engineering Data Science Operations Management Business or related field of study.
- MBA or Masters Degree in a relevant technical business engineering or management field is preferred.
Certificates Licenses and Registrations:
- Relevant cloud architecture product agile cybersecurity data or AI certifications are preferred.
- Examples may include AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud SAFe PMP ITIL TOGAF or comparable industry certifications.
Communication Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to lead customer discussions executive briefings technical reviews solution demonstrations and early-stage opportunity-shaping conversations.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts risks tradeoffs and recommendations in clear and practical business and mission terms.
- Strong facilitation and listening skills including the ability to guide conversations from a stated requirement to the underlying operational need.
- Ability to write clear concise and persuasive technical and executive content in a highly confidential manner.
Clearance Requirements:
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance is required.
- An active DoD Top Secret clearance is desired.
Travel:
- Travel may be required based on customer program and business-development needs.
Environmental Requirements:
- Mainly a routine office environment.
- May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.
- Flexible in working extended hours.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify add or remove duties and to assign other duties as addition where applicable and available reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.
Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.
Unissant Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)
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