CNO Product Line Manager

This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.

Who we are:

Raft (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting edge tech stack, and cloud native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

We’re looking for an experienced CNO Product Line Manager to support our customer and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers. This is a unique opportunity to help build and shape a game-changing organization where we put our customers and people first.

About the role:

• Provide technical advisement and execution support to UP's Product Line Managers for oversight, planning, and execution of CNO development activities
• Management support activities may include solutions analysis, market research, tracking user feedback, and measuring product success to meet USCYBERCOM operational requirements
• Continuously mature and execute plans and processes to decompose operational and capability requirements into UP program office prioritized work (e.g., initiatives, epics, stories) and product line horizons
• Develop, implement, execute, maintain, and continuously improve detailed near-term (3-6 month) capability roadmaps to align with evolving USCYBERCOM mission requirements and UP program office priorities
• Develop, implement, execute, maintain, and continuously improve long-term (6-18 month) value stream and product line roadmaps to align with evolving USCYBERCOM mission requirements and UP program office priorities
• Document and mitigate internal/external system and cross-system DevSecOps dependencies found in requirements generation, planning, and execution phases of Scaled Agile Framework implementation
• Design and document system engineering practices and processes to enable UP development and delivery of operational capabilities
• Provide SME decision support to Product Line Managers

What we are looking for:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a technical environment
• Experience managing one or more programs
• Experience supervising technical personnel
• Experience with Scaled Agile and DevSecOps methodologies
• Experience with technical requirements analysis, dependency resolution, risk management, task tracking, and schedule management
• Experience interfacing with customer leadership, user community members, and teams of software developers
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Highly preferred:

• Experience with a Cyber component of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA)
• Experience with Big Data Platforms
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline implementations
• Experience with Authorization to Operate (ATO) and Certificate to Field (CtF) processes
• Experience with Team Topologies concepts, team organization, and interaction modes
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and GitLab
• Experience with conflict resolution and team building
• Ability to professionally communicate verbally and in writing to present technical details to audiences of varying technical depth
• Certification in program/project management
• Certification in cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) security, administration, architecture.
• Certification in Agile execution

Clearance Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Work Type:

• Hybrid (San Antonio, TX)

What we will offer you:  

• Highly competitive salary 
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage 
• 401(k) and company match 
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays 
• Education & training benefits 
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs 
• Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work 
• Team off-site in fun places! 
• Generous Referral Bonuses 
• And More!

Our Vision Statement:  

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession:

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How do we get there?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.

Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.