Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Project Integrator with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.
THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT
The Contractor shall provide support in developing documentation for the Sponsor’s cyber data exploitation capabilities and assistance with technical program management activities related to the implementation of AI/ML model development and deployment strategy. This generally will require professional experience doing technical writing and documentation, a user experience perspective, strong collaboration skills, ability to relay technical concepts and technologies to a non-technical audience in both written and verbal forms, strong organizational skills, and a proven track record of program management and implementation.
THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall support a growing development and engineering team, helping the team leverage tools and adapt program management principles to maximize efforts across multiple programs and priorities.
• The Contractor shall have technical writing and documentation skills, the ability to effectively communicate while keeping a user’s perspective in mind, an understanding of Sponsor’s data exploitation capabilities, and the ability to communicate these through various mediums to include web content and knowledge management systems, wiki, email, briefings, and a user interface.
• The Contractor shall support transition of improvements from development to production.
• The Contractor shall, alongside development team and key partners, lead efforts to provide user and system documentation, support pilot user program and feedback loop.
• The Contractor shall plan and execute center-wide communications about technical projects.
• The Contractor shall organize, plan, and prioritize a variety of complex and competing projects to meet tactical and strategic goals of the Sponsor (i.e. planning to implement short-term tactical data wins while planning for a transition to long-term strategic solutions).
• The Contractor shall use organizational tools (Jira, Confluence) and maintain an understanding of program and configuration management principles (Agile, Scrum, Iterative Development).
• The Contractor shall work with Sponsor and Sponsor partners to deconflict data requirements and collaborate to identify process efficiencies.
• The Contractor shall assist the Sponsor Program Manager with the development of work processes.
• The Contractor shall provide programmatic support to the Sponsor in engaging with mission partners and internal and external stakeholders in an ongoing dialogue to meet tactical and strategic goals.
• The Contractor shall develop and track key program success metrics.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with technical writing.
• Demonstrated experience with program management or certifications in program management.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience working with commercial collection operations and a software development team.
• Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s mission environment working with data exploitation capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with Sponsor data sharing platforms and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience working in Sponsor’s technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience working with various Sponsor data types.
• Demonstrated experience with information operations, computer networks, communications infrastructures, and associated technologies.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
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.