Senior Manager, Growth[x] Data & AI Engineer

We are hiring a Senior Manager Growthx Data & AI Engineering to serve as the senior technical lead for the data and AI foundation that powers Growthx an AI-enabled end-to-end solution that transforms how we identify opportunities execute our end-to-end growth pipeline and deliver winning proposals.

Growthx is built on the Peratonx platform and unifies the playbooks data sources and tooling the Growth organization today into a single intelligent workflow from opportunity capture through proposal submission.

This role is responsible for planning coordinating and managing the data pipelines cortexes integrations and governance that make Growthx trustworthy secure and useful at enterprise scale. You will be the connective tissue between the Growth organization the CIOs data platform and the Peratonx platform team ensuring that the right data is available governed trusted and accessible for the right AI-driven purposes.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will architect and build alongside the team not just direct it.

Solution Architecture. Architect the end-to-end technical vision for Growthx how opportunity identification qualification capture color teams pricing inputs past performance solutioning and proposal development connect into a single AI-enabled workflow on Peratonx.

Cortex Development. Design and stand up the knowledge cortexes (ontology mission briefing curated content KG structure) that power Growthx. Establish standards for how cortexes are built versioned and maintained as source material evolves.

Data Connections & Quality. Lead integration with the CIO managed and governed systems of record Growth depends on and the Peraton Data Warehouse and with cross-corporate functionally owned SharePoint repositories. Drive the data-quality remediation needed to make AI outputs trustworthy.

Process Design. Translate end-to-end growth process steps into event triggered data packages for the team intuitive dashboards and skills and workflows on Peratonx. Partner with Growth process owners to redesign workflows around AI rather than bolting AI onto legacy steps. Partner with the Peratonx team to ensure Growth operations remain optimized and evolve as the platform evolves.

Playbook Productization. Take the existing library of BAP prompts and playbooks and elevate them into hardened reusable skills and flows with clear inputs outputs and quality gates.

Enablement & Training. Build the training curriculum and enablement collateral (tool-specific and process-specific) that gets capture managers proposal managers solution architects and pricing leads productive on Growthx.

Team Leadership. Lead and manage a small high-leverage team setting technical direction prioritizing the roadmap and coaching them into stronger operators.

Stakeholder Management. Serve as the senior point of accountability to Growth leadership IT security and the Peratonx platform team. Communicate progress risks and trade-offs in business terms.

• 12 years of progressive experience in data/AI solution architecture or digital transformation with 5 years leading technical teams.
• Must have demonstrated ownership of an enterprise AI or analytics platform from architecture through adoption not just pilots.
• Possess a strong working knowledge of agentic AI systems: prompt engineering retrieval / knowledge graphs evaluation and productionization patterns.
• Experience navigating shared infrastructure models consuming centrally managed data platforms without owning the underlying infrastructure.
• Prior experience working with or alongside a CIO office or enterprise IT governance function in a consumer/integrator capacity.
• SQL & Databases: Strong command of SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server).
• ETL / ELT Pipelines: Hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow Informatica Talend dbt or equivalent.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure including managed data services (e.g. Azure Synapse ADLS ADF BigQuery).
• BI & Visualization: Proficiency with Power BI Alteryx or equivalent BI tools.
• Data Warehousing: Familiarity with data warehousing concepts dimensional modeling and data lake / lakehouse architecture.
• AI / LLM Foundations: Working knowledge of LLM-based systems retrieval-augmented generation knowledge graphs / ontologies prompt engineering and evaluation sufficient to design the data and cortex layer beneath them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to move between executive stakeholders CIO-office counterparts and hands-on engineers.
• US. citizenship
• Willing to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance

• Working knowledge of the federal Business Acquisition Process Shipley-style capture and proposal processes color teams and proposal artifacts.
• Knowledge of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and its data-related implications.
• Relevant certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate dbt Certified Developer CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) or equivalent.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.

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