Program Innovation Lead

REQ#: RQ70547Travel Required: Less than 10% Public Trust: BI Full 6C (T4) Requisition Type: Pipeline This position focuses on enhancing the program's capabilities through a broad range of projects. The position is expected to provide strategic thought leadership to cross functional project teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders while demonstrating a keen eye for the tactical elements of projects.Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with members of the program leadership team to identify and evaluate opportunities for efficiency, growth and innovation.
• Pro-actively seeks out, prioritizing, and develops initiatives in areas such as:
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Data Sharing and Privacy
  • Continuous Delivery and Automation
  • Service Design
  • Data Analytics and Visualization
  • Productized Services
• Provide end to end innovation leadership (concept to completion), owning the mechanisms which ensure successful realization of innovation using a creative, focused, and synergistic project development process to include internal stakeholders and external strategic partnerships.
• Design, execute, and analyze customer research to measure performance and operational excellence, and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Use analytics, partners, research, metrics, and technical acumen to identify innovation opportunities, define strategy, write business requirements, provide technical input, and develop roadmaps for innovation initiatives.
• Communicate complex concepts and rationale for decisions clearly and persuasively across different audiences including senior leadership.
• Work closely with software engineering, design, and business stakeholders to deliver measureable outcomes and surface opportunities.
• Design, implement, and measure key performance metrics for initiatives you lead.
• Maintain and grow customer/client relationships.
• Provide support to technical delivery team as they implement innovations, to ensure goals are achieved

• Strong project management skills with a self-directed, results oriented aptitude.
• Strong leadership and team building skills including mentoring and managing diverse and virtual teams.
• Must have demonstrated analytical/problem-solving, project management/task planning, engineering risk assessment, creativity/innovation and technical leadership skills.
• Solid knowledge of product development and processes used to deliver solutions for the business function.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to develop and execute logical analysis to make data driven decisions.
• Organization agility, demonstrating ability to influence across levels and functions of the organization.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and the ability to speak to these technologies with customers and developers.
• Leadership qualities that translate into business outcomes - specifically around team building and cohesion, client relationship development, and strategic thinking around enterprise business matters.
• Think strategically and willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in wherever necessary.

• 5+ years of experience in product management, technology project management with a demonstrated/proven track record for driving innovation.
• Experience in a federal program whose initial focus is migrating a mission critical application from a mainframe to a Cloud hosted solution; ideally with the Dept. of Education.
• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred
• Cloud certifications desired