IT Project Manager

This IT Project Manager role provides principal-level advisory and thought leadership to senior DARPA executives, including the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and senior ITD Staff. As an IT Project Manager, you will be a key strategic resource, shaping the agency’s approach to cybersecurity across its most advanced and sensitive technology portfolios.

Seeking a distinguished expert with extensive, deep experience in IT Project Management with a focus on High Performance Computing (HPC) support. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to provide strategic foresight, critical technical analysis, and authoritative guidance, ensuring that security is an enabler of innovation for DARPA’s high-risk, high-reward programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide primary support to the government’s HPC Director, Support to the HPC Director.
• Maintain close communication between PM/OD personnel and the HPC Director regarding current and future HPC requirements across the agency.
• Support the HPC Director in overall HPC Strategy Development and Execution for the agency.
• Engaging with external DoW partners and investors in HPC related initiatives.

• Serve as DARPA’s Service/Agency Approval Authority (S/AAA) within the DoD HPCMP ecosystem to liaison with DARPA program managers and their contracted scientists and engineers to secure computational resources on their behalf.

• Allocate DARPA-assigned CPU compute hours on HPCMP and DARPA systems.
• Provide day-to-day linkage with DARPA organizations, the HPCMP and other S/AAAs across the HPCMP community.
• Ensure Project Leaders and authorized HPCMP users are performing work in support of DARPA and the DoD.
• Implement HPC requirements surveys, resource allocation, resource monitoring and resource reallocation.
• Provide guidance to users on which HPC assets are appropriate for their projects.
• Trade allocations with other S/AAAs across the HPCMP community.
• Under the agile methodology, serve as a Product Manager for any DARPA HPC projects to develop acceptance criteria defining desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions that meet customer needs.

• Must have demonstrated a minimum of five (5) years of experience supporting HPC requirements, services, equities or customers within USG HPC communities, such as the DOD

• High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).
• Minimum Top-Secret clearance, eligible for access to SCI and SAP., Agile Programming Methodologies, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Compensation Management, Computational Engineering, Ecosystems, Government, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Security, People Management, Product Management, Project/Program Management, Resource Management, Risk, Strategic Planning, Technical Analysis, Thought Leadership, Top Secret Clearance, United States Department of Defense (DoD)

Salary range for the position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year. Specific compensation will be determined by several factors including experience, education, skills, and knowledge. We also offer medical/dental/vision benefits and 401k contribution.