AI Project Manager

AI Project Manager & Architect

The AI Project Manager & Architect role will combine strategic oversight, technical architecture direction, and secure delivery planning, aligned with National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Intelligence Community (IC) mission expectations. This includes programmatic and architectural leadership for developing and fielding agentic AI capabilities in secure environments such as NGA CORE. This includes end-to-end lifecycle planning, stakeholder engagement, and risk-managed delivery. Specific responsibilities include:

Strategic Roadmapping & Stakeholder Engagement

• Manage and maintain the multi-year roadmap for agentic AI capabilities, ensuring alignment with NGA enterprise objectives and IC mission priorities.
• Serve as the primary interface with senior NGA/IC stakeholders, ensuring continuous alignment on scope, value delivery, and risk posture.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across engineering, data science, security, and operations teams to synchronize milestones and dependencies.

Program Manager Governance & Oversight

• Establish and maintain the overarching system architecture, including integration of AI/ML models, agent orchestration frameworks, data pipelines, and governance services
• Review and approve design decisions for compliance with security, scalability, and interoperability standards.
• Drive technical tradeoff decisions balancing innovation velocity with operational reliability, maintainability, and security constraints.

ATO Planning & Compliance Enablement

• Oversee Authority to Operate (ATO) planning, documentation, and evidence gathering to achieve deployment in secure classified environments (IL5/IL6 cloud, SCIFs).
• Ensure delivery teams implement security controls, audit logging, and documentation practices that align with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NGA IV&V requirements
• Coordinate security assessments, accreditation reviews, and governance checkpoints with IT security and compliance stakeholders.

Program & Milestone Management

• Own program schedule, milestones, and deliverable tracking across multiple agile teams.
• Monitor performance against cost, schedule, and technical objectives; proactively mitigate risk and remove blockers.
• Deliver regular program status updates, risk assessments, and executive briefings to leadership and external partners.

We are seeking an AI Project Manager & Architect to support National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts. This project manager will play an important role helping to create technical solutions for multiple AI challenges.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. "Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Reston, Virginia and/or remote. Occasional travel within the National Capital Region (NCR)
• Type of environment: Varies
• Noise level: Low
• Work schedule: "Normal work hours" constitute on average 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week (excluding breaks and meal periods) within standard operational hours occurring 0600-1800, Monday-Friday, excluding Federal holidays. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
• Amount of Travel: 10%

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

• U.S. Citizenship
• TS/SCI with Polygraph

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status"). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.