Senior Technology Leader (AI)

Location: Tysons, Virginia, United States; on-site. Periodic travel, customer meetings, and availability outside normal business hours may be required for significant incidents, continuity events, or planned technology changes.

Salary: $130,000–$150,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global delivers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, modernization, and technology services for federal agencies, health and humanitarian missions, and national security customers.

What you will do

• Develop and execute enterprise IT strategy, governance, architecture standards, and multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business growth, customer commitments, risk, and operational priorities.
• Lead approximately 16 IT professionals and oversee service desk operations, endpoints, identity and access, networks, cloud and hosting, enterprise applications, integrations, assets, vendors, and support services.
• Define and execute an enterprise AI strategy, prioritize use cases and pilots, scale successful solutions, and establish governance for security, privacy, compliance, acceptable use, human oversight, and risk.
• Strengthen cybersecurity, continuity, disaster recovery, incident response, resilience, compliance, audits, and federal security framework alignment.
• Manage IT budgets, forecasts, procurement, contracts, licenses, vendors, investment cases, service metrics, and operational performance.
• Advise selected customer engagements and proposals involving IT modernization, cloud, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, data, AI, infrastructure, and managed services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, management information systems, or a related field; equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Active federal security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one; a current Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance is advantageous but not required.
• 15 or more years of progressive technology experience, including at least 7 years leading technical teams, programs, or functions with increasing organizational scope and accountability.
• Experience setting enterprise technology strategy and leading reliable day-to-day operations in a growing, geographically distributed organization.
• Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, networks, cloud platforms, identity and access management, endpoint computing, enterprise applications, IT service management, cybersecurity, data protection, resilience, and systems integration.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, vendors, contracts, licenses, staffing, and investment priorities while connecting technology decisions to business outcomes.
• Experience communicating with executive leaders and presenting complex technical, financial, and risk matters clearly to nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated success building and developing teams, establishing operating discipline, leading organizational change, and earning trust across functions.
• Experience supporting customers in a consultative, solutioning, program leadership, or technical delivery capacity.

Nice to have

• Leadership experience within a federal government contractor, technology services firm, or similarly regulated and security-sensitive organization.
• Experience supporting federal civilian, defense, intelligence, or national security customers and familiarity with federal acquisition, delivery, security, and authorization environments.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud migration, hybrid cloud, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, automation, organization-wide AI adoption, data, or large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS or Microsoft Azure architecture credentials, ITIL, PMP, or comparable credentials.
• Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional office and technology environment supporting employees and operations across multiple locations.
• Health care plan covering medical, dental, and vision.
• Retirement plan, including 401(k) and IRA options, plus life insurance and disability coverage.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, public holidays, and family leave.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.