Overview:
AnaVation is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Director of Mission Analytics and Subject Matter Expert to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal for driving innovative technical solutions, writing compelling proposals to secure new business, and leading our analytics initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, proven leadership capabilities, and a passion for advancing new technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
· Collaboration and Innovation: Work collaboratively with stakeholders, technical leads, and program managers to identify problem areas, document business requirements, create plans of action, and write white papers that will provide customer solutions to advance their missions. Inspire innovation across experienced and junior engineers.
· Customer Acquisition and Support: Write compelling white papers and proposals, iterate solutions with customers and compelling frequent presentations to result in new business including Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) awards.
· Proposal Support: Assist the Proposal team in writing compelling and awardable technical solutions. Prepare briefings, oral presentations, and other materials for internal and external stakeholders.
· Program Support: Serve as program subject matter expert (SME) joining program teams and Principal Investigator (PI) for SBIRs to lead the implementation of technical solutions, and mentor or support program staff as needed. Work closely with implementation teams to develop and deploy highly technical solutions.
· Research and Development: Conduct research, maintain awareness of leading vendors, analytical tools, best practices, and technical advancements. Push the technological edge to explore and building new concepts while having follow-thru to create working prototypes and enterprise applications working with implementation teams. Define the state-of-the-art in Mission Analytics, including:
- Investigative & Intelligence Applications:
- Large Scale Processing & Super Compute
- Visualization for Discovery
- Search & Fusion of Multiple Data Sets & Timing
- Math on Data (AI / ML)
- Entity Resolution
- Geospatial Analysis (geo, layers, features, …)
- Prediction of events
- Influencers Analysis (real & personas…)
- Collection & Storage:
- Data Collection, Sharing & Transformation
- Fusion & Storage of Data Sets
- Data Systems Engineering
- Cloud Engineering, Architecture & Security
- Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor junior team members, fostering their professional growth and technical skills. Help mid-career technologist develop into Principal Investigators. Lead by example and promote a strong work ethic within the team.
· Project Management: Manage multiple competing priorities, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within scope. Demonstrate initiative and perform technical tasks independently when necessary.