Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.
Barbaricum seeks an Assistant Project Manager to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) mission. CDAO is responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. CDAO is tasked with building a strong foundation for data, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to be developed and fielded at scale. This position will play a key role in the establishment of strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems. Specifically, this role will directly contribute to the CDAO Assessment & Assurance Division’s Joint AI Test & Evaluation Infrastructure Capability (JATIC) program. Barbaricum has been supporting the CDAO for more than three years, including current scrum master and program operations support to the JATIC program.
The Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) Assessment & Assurance Division aims to establish the strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems. As part of its remit, the division manages the JATIC program, which is developing an interoperable set of state-of-the-art software capabilities for AI Test & Evaluation. It aims to provide a comprehensive suite of integrated testing tools which can be deployed widely across the enterprise to address key T&E gaps. In particular, JATIC capabilities will support the assessment of AI system performance, cybersecurity, adversarial resilience, and explainability - enabling the end-user to execute their mission more effectively. It is a key component of the digital testing infrastructure that the CDAO will provide to support the development and deployment of data, analytics, and AI across the Department.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate initiative and be a self-starter, able to work in a highly collaborative, virtual, and versatile environment handling an array of duties and responsibilities with particular focus on organization, coordination, process management, and multi-tasking abilities.
- Create, maintain, and organize the division knowledge management and documentation system to ensure effective information communication, processes, and transparency of work.
- Build strategies and documentation on organizational processes for information sharing, task management, onboarding, and coordination to share across larger program.
- Manage user access, role requests, and onboarding across platforms and software systems.
- Ensure the multi-organizational team adopts and follows the division knowledge management and documentation system.
- Suggest more efficient ways to run the Division and troubleshoot malfunctions.
- Understand Division priorities to effectively manage Division leadership’s time in meetings and prioritizing events that must happen vs optional engagements.
- Assist in preparing and managing presentations and reports.
Qualifications
- Active Secret Clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
- Prior DoD experience preferred
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to proactively engage members both inside and outside of your team
- Experience working with project management applications, like Jira or Confluence, is preferred
- Experience with Gitlab is strongly preferred
- Experience implementing documentation and knowledge management systems for agile software development projects and/or Division level corporate groups
- Great technical writing skills
- Knowledge of the Agile development process
- Experience working on large software development programs.
- Experience working within agile frameworks, such as Scaled Agile Framework
- Experience working within high technology areas, such as computer science, data science, autonomy, and artificial intelligence
- Experience working with multi-organizational programs is preferred
- Experience with Advana and working with DoD CDAO a plus
Additional Information
For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com. We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews. No phone calls please.
