Delivery Lead - Acquisition & Sustainment
Redhorse CorporationArlington, VA
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Overview
Schedule
Full-time
Education
PMP
Career level
Director
Remote
On-site
Benefits
Paid Vacation
Job Description
About the Organization
Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We’re looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.
About the Role
Redhorse is transforming how the Department of Defense (DoD) utilizes data and technology. We are seeking a highly skilled Delivery lead to join our team supporting the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)). You will play a critical role in advancing data-driven decision-making across the DoD, designing and implementing robust data solutions that directly impact national security initiatives and investments. This is a high-impact position offering significant opportunity to shape the future of DoD data management and analytics.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Delivery & Execution
- Take ownership of the team's delivery lifecycle, ensuring data products are delivered on time, within scope, and to quality standards.
- Ensure the product backlog is prioritized, refined, and clearly understood by the cross-functional team.
- Track and communicate team metrics (e.g., velocity, sprint burn-down, lead time) to forecast delivery and identify areas for process optimization.
- Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve impediments and blockers that hinder the team’s progress.
Agile Facilitation & Team Leadership
- Guide and coach the team in engineering best practices.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture rooted in trust, transparency, and continuous learning.
- Protect the team from external distractions and scope creep during active sprints.
Enterprise Stakeholder & Dependency Management
- Act as the primary bridge between the execution team and wider enterprise stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of progress, risks, and release schedules.
- Navigate a highly matrixed enterprise environment to manage complex dependencies with external teams.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level status reports and delivery roadmaps.
Data Product Advocacy & Compliance
- Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise data governance and security standards.
- Possess a strong working understanding of the data product lifecycle (data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and visualization) to effectively communicate with technical team members and validate delivery estimates.
- Facilitate discussions around data quality, testing protocols, and CI/CD pipelines specific to data environments.
Required Experience/Clearance
- Experience: 6+ years in a Delivery Lead, Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or Technical Project Manager role.
- Data Literacy: Proven experience delivering data-centric projects (e.g., Data Warehousing, Machine Learning models, BI/Analytics dashboards, ETL/ELT pipelines).
- Agile Expertise: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and how to pragmatically apply them in an enterprise setting.
- Enterprise Navigation: Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholders in a complex, large-scale corporate environment.
- Tools: High proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) and collaboration software.
- Preferred: Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, or SAFe Agilist.
- Familiarity with modern enterprise data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP data services, dbt).
- Secret level security clearance.
The salary range provided for this position represents the anticipated base salary for successful candidates. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, security clearance level, geographic location, market conditions, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may participate in Redhorse's comprehensive benefits programs and may be eligible for performance-based or other incentive compensation, where applicable.
Redhorse Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting Talent Acquisition at Talent-Acquisition@redhorsecorp.com
Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse’s changing needs. This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse’s sole discretion.
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Redhorse Corporation is looking for a candidate with "Director" experience level.
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The education requirement for this position is PMP. Candidates with relevant qualifications or equivalent experience may also be considered.
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Redhorse Corporation offers Paid Vacation for this position. Actual benefits may vary depending on the employer's policies and employment terms.
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