Data Processing, Practice Area Lead (DAS DO)

The Data Operations subservice line (SSL) is seeking a Practice Area Lead (PAL) for the Data Processing Practice Area (PA), where a PA is understood to refer to a set of closely aligned distinct and unique capabilities that support SSL and LMI priorities and vision. The PALs will be responsible for 1) developing a strategy for their Practice Area that aligns with SSL strategy and capability maturation; 2) supporting business development and growth for their PA, and 3) talent management and development within their PA.

Within the Data Operations SSL, the PAs will include: Data Engineering, Data Architecture, and Data Science. The Practice Area Lead, Data Processing, will lead practice area activities for Data Processing, which includes strategically selecting, developing, automating, and enabling data pipelines that engineered for integration and scaling. The PAL will report directly to the SSL Vice President and is expected to support PA responsibilities with approximately 50% of their time.

The Data Processing Practice Area Lead role includes the following activities:

Capability Maturation & Strategy
• Develop PA strategy and support Data Operations SSL strategy to assist in executing SSL goals
• Create, update, and/or document solutions, offerings, methodologies, and capabilities that align to the PA and resonate with market trends and/or client challenges (e.g. SDMs, methodologies, models, etc.)
• Coordinate across LMI to ensure PA capabilities are known throughout LMI and meeting the needs of LMI's customers
• Continuously improve existing capabilities and develop new capabilities within PA to stay in front of a rapidly evolving and digitally-enabled marketplace
• BD and Growth
  • Provide solutioning, capture, and proposal support to markets/growth for PA capabilities
  • Develop sales enablement materials to support SSL and PA growth
  • Screen RFIs/RFPs for potential action and lead/coordinate response for SSL
  • Review, maintain, and coordinate with markets/BD to update pipeline opportunities related to the Practice Area or coordinate updates with the Business Development POC
  • Support SSL and markets/growth in partner identification for opportunities
• Community Mentorship and Development
  • Manage and develop talent within the PA
  • Manage the hiring process for talent demands within the PA (create, review, and approve requisitions)
  • Conduct interviews for demand requirements and coordinate with SSL Vice President on hiring/staffing decisions
  • Assist Resource Managers and SSL Vice President with staff redeployments and internal mobility
  • Mature the PA bench by identifying and mentoring subject matter experts and emerging talent and maintaining awareness of desired growth areas of staff within PA
  • Help identify the best approaches to improve the professional skills of Practice Area members to include certifications, degrees, professional organizations, and work experience
  • Provide input and support to Practice Area staff on Performance 365 goals and calibrations

Minimum:

• Experience in management consulting or federal government service, executing capabilities in Practice Area (military or civilian).
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise and thought leadership.
• Ability to lead, nurture, and develop people in an effective way with positive impacts to both the employee and LMI.
• Ability to understand and align competing work priorities and outcomes with partners (e.g., service line and market), adjust individual priorities for the greater good, and negotiate shared work goals.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic leadership, including alignment and development of financial metrics, KPIs, and OKRs.
  
• Demonstrated experience in cultivating an innovative work culture.
  

Desired:

• Ability to develop, nurture and maintain collaborative partnerships. Collaborative partnerships have multiple hand-offs, require regular communication to coordinate and debrief, continual information exchange, collective contribution to work products, creative conflict, and mutual stake in success.
• Ability to clearly articulate other's roles and responsibilities in completing work and proactively and effectively resolve role conflicts, to include partners, team members and leaders.
• Ability to achieve consensus and decisions while maintaining collaborative partnerships.
• Ability to leverage indirect influence to delegate and co-create and implement work products.
• Ability to tailor communication requirements and style to a wide-range of situations and requirements.
• Ability to make meetings matter by setting clear and specific outcomes, facilitating productive dialogue, and leading an effective follow-up and accountability cadence
• Exemplify LMI's 5 behaviors
  • Collaborate constantly by working across organizational boundaries
  • Operate in the gray area by accepting ambiguity
  • Embracing conflict by supporting and engaging in respectful, robust debates and discussions,
  • Develop people by investing in the growth of others
  • Take an enterprise-wide view by evaluating challenges from multiple perspectives and maximizing the whole.
• Possess mature emotional intelligence (EQ) as demonstrated by strong self-awareness, emotional resilience, empathy, and relationship management.