Senior Manager, Technical Mission Readiness

About this role

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.

Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

About the Role

The Senior Manager of Technical Mission Readiness will lead the planning, integration, and operational readiness of technology capabilities supporting Clarity's mission programs, classified environments, and customer delivery. This role ensures programs have the infrastructure, systems, connectivity, technical capabilities, and support required to execute mission requirements.

Reporting to the Vice President of Information Technology, the Senior Manager will work closely with One IT, Security, engineering teams, program leadership, and government stakeholders to identify mission requirements, resolve technical barriers, and ensure environments are ready to support current and emerging programs.

The ideal candidate combines deep DoD or IC technical experience with strong operational leadership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to translate mission requirements into executable solutions.

Responsibilities

Mission Readiness & Program Enablement

• Assess technical readiness for existing and emerging mission programs.
• Translate program and customer requirements into actionable infrastructure, systems, connectivity, and technical requirements.
• Identify capability gaps, dependencies, risks, and technical barriers that could impact mission execution.
• Develop readiness plans and coordinate actions required to prepare environments for program execution.
• Track mission readiness activities through completion and provide clear status, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Partner with program teams to ensure technology enables delivery and mission execution.

Classified & Mission Environments

• Provide technical leadership supporting SCIF IT operations, classified enclaves, high side environments, and mission systems.
• Coordinate with Security, One IT, program teams, and government stakeholders on classified technology requirements.
• Support the design, deployment, integration, and sustainment of classified and mission environments.
• Ensure systems, networks, infrastructure, and technical capabilities introduced into mission environments follow established governance and security requirements.
• Support secure connectivity, remote administration, cross domain requirements, and other mission technology capabilities as applicable.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve classified IT capabilities across programs and locations.

Mission Systems & Engineering

• Partner with platform, infrastructure, network, security, and engineering teams to design resilient mission solutions.
• Evaluate technologies and technical capabilities for mission applicability, scalability, interoperability, and operational effectiveness.
• Support cyber ranges, development environments, test environments, mission platforms, and specialized program infrastructure.
• Coordinate technical requirements across compute, storage, networking, identity, endpoints, cloud, monitoring, and supporting infrastructure.
• Support implementation of Zero Trust and other enterprise architecture capabilities within mission environments where applicable.
• Drive automation and repeatable engineering approaches that improve readiness and reduce deployment timelines.

Operational Readiness & Resilience

• Evaluate mission environments for availability, resilience, recovery, capacity, connectivity, and overall technical readiness.
• Coordinate technical readiness reviews before significant deployments, exercises, demonstrations, customer milestones, and operational events.
• Identify single points of failure, capacity constraints, dependencies, and operational risks that could impact mission execution.
• Support contingency planning, disaster recovery, incident response, and mission recovery activities.
• Coordinate resolution of technical issues affecting program readiness.
• Establish measurable readiness criteria and provide leadership visibility into mission capability, gaps, and risk.

Customer & Program Engagement

• Serve as a technical partner to program leadership and mission teams.
• Engage with government customers and technical stakeholders to understand mission requirements, constraints, and future needs.
• Support technical exchanges, customer reviews, demonstrations, exercises, and mission planning activities.
• Support Growth, Capture, and Proposal teams with mission technology expertise.
• Evaluate infrastructure and technology requirements for new opportunities and provide technical input into solution development.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, requirements, and recommendations clearly to technical, program, and executive audiences.

Technology Integration & Modernization

• Identify emerging technologies that can improve mission capability, resilience, scalability, or operational efficiency.
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