The Center of Excellence (CoE) Lead, for our MSFT and Data CoE's, is a pivotal role designed to drive the strategic execution of technical solutions within the Ignite Digital Services (IDS) portfolio. This position is responsible for advancing innovation, managing CoE-aligned resources, and fostering collaboration to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet customer needs and align with IDS's business objectives. The CoE Lead will focus on enhancing technical capabilities, developing best practices, and delivering measurable business value to our clients. It is preferred this role will operate out of one of our office locations (Charleston, San Diego or Chesapeake), however there is a possibility for this role to be remote.
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Scope of Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Drive the overall execution and strategic direction of the CoE, ensuring alignment with IDS's goals and priorities. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the CoE.
• Partner with Market Leads, Senior Managers, and Task Order Managers to identify, develop and close on tactical business development opportunities related to the CoE. Assist in promoting CoE capabilities through demonstrations, customer innovation success stories, and use cases to existing and new customers.
• Provide Proposal/Capture support as related to the CoE's scope. This includes technical solutioning and content creation, edits, reviews, providing past performance data and leading proposal activities for solicitations.
• Represent IDS at conferences and industry events.

Solutions Delivery:

• Monitor the delivery of CoE-aligned solutions, ensuring project success through application of consistent methodology, robust solution architecture, and adherence to best practices. Assist Client Services with managing cost, schedule, performance, and risks.
• Collaborate with IDS technical SMEs (both in Client Services and DICE) to refine solution architectures and implement innovative approaches to meet customer challenges.

Team and Resource Management:

• Assist Client Services with recruitment of technical positions outside of the hiring manager's area of expertise to include building of job descriptions, candidate evaluation, and technical interviews.
• Collaborate with Client Services to balance technical resource alignment with demand signals across the IDS portfolio to maximize team impact and delivery outcomes.
• Lead and mentor employees aligned to and participating in the CoE to build high performing which can deliver technical solutions. Provide career management for select employees which report through the DICE Management structure (i.e. those engaged across multiple teams and task orders)
• Standards, Best Practices, and Workforce Development:
• Work closely with DICE leadership to establish technical standards, best practices, and methodologies for solution delivery within scope of the CoE.
• Document and standardize successful strategies, methodologies, processes, and templates to increase efficiency and consistency across projects.
• Enhance IDS technical capabilities through targeted training sessions, workshops, and project involvement.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in technical solution delivery, including managing teams and projects in complex technical environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in the CoE-aligned domain (RPA, Microsoft Solutions, Data & Analytics, BizOps, GRC, or future domains).
• Proven ability to drive measurable business value through technical innovation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across both vertical and horizontal organizational levels.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while being flexible and adaptable to ever-changing business needs/requirements
• Effective written and verbal communications skills with the ability to adjust context and level of detail for varied leadership, business, and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced level certification in the technical domain relevant to the CoE (e.g., UiPath for RPA CoE, Microsoft Power Platform / Azure for Microsoft CoE, etc.).
• Experience developing and implementing technical standards or best practices.
• Prior experience leading workforce development initiatives, including training or certification programs.
• Advanced knowledge of federal or Department of Defense (DoD) programs and requirements.

Salary: 135k+ to align with education and experience