AI Integration Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of activities related to the AI Integration task.

• Collaborate with Government representatives and mission owners to pinpoint operational needs, set priorities, and define implementation objectives.

• Create and sustain AI implementation roadmaps, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status updates.

• Manage multidisciplinary teams engaged in AI architecture, application development, data engineering, MLOps, cybersecurity, testing, training, and operations.

• Convert mission requirements into coordinated technical and operational work packages.

• Assess and prioritize AI use cases based on mission value, feasibility, data readiness, implementation effort, and operational risk.

• Facilitate the integration of AI capabilities into existing applications, business processes, decision workflows, and user activities.

• Coordinate requirements, acceptance criteria, testing strategies, and release-readiness expectations with Government stakeholders.

• Ensure implementation activities align with approved architectures, data sources, integration interfaces, and cloud environments.

• Manage controls for human reviews, approvals, access permissions, auditability, exception handling, and escalation processes.

• Monitor technical and organizational dependencies, resolving or escalating impediments that impact delivery.

• Collaborate with data and MLOps teams on dataset readiness, model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and controlled updates.

• Work alongside cybersecurity personnel to address relevant security requirements, authorization processes, and remediation actions.

• Assist in demonstrations, user acceptance testing, Government reviews, and implementation decisions.

• Plan for operational transitions, technical documentation, user guidance, training, and support arrangements.

• Partner with training and mission teams to foster workforce adoption and effective utilization of AI capabilities.

• Track implementation progress, user feedback, operational performance, and mission outcomes.

• Prepare briefings, decision documents, risk assessments, recommendations, and task status reports.

• Integrate lessons learned into future implementation plans and continuous improvement efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

• At least 12 years of relevant professional experience is necessary.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, or a related field, or an acceptable equivalent.

• Proven experience leading AI implementation initiatives.

• Experience in integrating AI capabilities into operational or mission workflows.

• Demonstrated experience in leading multidisciplinary teams.

• Proven ability to coordinate with Government representatives and stakeholders.

• Strong capability to lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of AI capabilities across organizational processes and workflows.

• Applicable DoD 8570 certification is required if assigned information assurance management or engineering responsibilities.

• Project management or Agile certification is preferred but not mandatory.

• Relevant AI or cloud certification is preferred but not mandatory.

• Experience leading AI initiatives within federal or Department of Defense environments is preferred.

• Experience transitioning AI capabilities from pilot or prototype phases to sustained operational use is preferred.

• Familiarity with knowledge assistants, retrieval workflows, AI agents, and enterprise application integration is preferred.

• Familiarity with MLOps, model evaluation, model monitoring, data governance, and secure data pipelines is preferred.

• Experience in establishing human oversight, approval checkpoints, and traceable AI implementation controls is preferred.

• Proven experience in coordinating user acceptance testing, deployment readiness, operational handoffs, and workforce training is preferred.

• Experience in measuring adoption, operational enhancements, and mission impact is preferred.

• Strong skills in stakeholder facilitation, technical communication, risk management, and problem-solving are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections provided.

• Consideration for comparable positions during resume evaluation.