Jobs at Ad Hoc

Leads and conducts research, develops research strategy, mentors researchers, and guides cross-functional teams. Oversees research planning, analysis, synthesis, stakeholder communication, and risk identification. Stewardship responsibilities include maintaining VA.gov information architecture standards, advising product teams, evaluating navigation and content structures, documenting issues, supporting governance checkpoints, and improving collaboration processes and guidance.

Develop and modernize legacy Java-based applications, primarily JSP monoliths, while diagnosing issues, reducing technical debt, improving reliability, and integrating adjacent systems. Independently gather requirements, solve complex technical problems, communicate with stakeholders, present designs, mentor junior engineers, and participate in technical interviews. React and JavaScript development may support cross-functional needs.

Leads growth and account strategy across DHS, especially USCIS, by developing federal pipelines, shaping opportunities, managing capture and proposal pursuits, and converting relationships into awarded business. Oversees account planning, acquisition strategy, teaming partnerships, forecasting, executive engagement, and multidisciplinary pursuit teams. Coaches growth professionals and partners with delivery, technology, contracts, finance, and executive leadership to expand federal accounts and win complex digital services contracts.

Leads growth and account strategy for Federal Civilian customers, including HHS, IRS, and NOAA. Develops pipelines, account plans, capture strategies, proposals, teaming partnerships, and contract growth opportunities. Builds executive customer relationships, shapes acquisitions, leads multidisciplinary pursuit teams, forecasts bookings, and presents recommendations to leadership. Also coaches growth professionals and partners with delivery, technology, contracts, finance, and talent teams to win federal business.

Leads growth and account strategy across Federal Civilian agencies, including HHS, IRS, and NOAA. Develops customer relationships, builds pipeline, identifies opportunities, shapes pursuits, leads capture and proposal activities, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, and converts qualified opportunities into federal contract wins. The role also manages account plans, forecasts, teaming relationships, technology partnerships, and executive communications while connecting customer missions to digital modernization, cloud, data, AI, and platform solutions.

Leads Ad Hoc’s growth strategy across DHS, especially USCIS, by developing account plans, building federal pipelines, shaping opportunities, and leading capture efforts through proposal and award. The role manages customer and partner relationships, coordinates multidisciplinary pursuit teams, identifies expansion opportunities, maintains forecasts, and connects federal mission needs with digital modernization, cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, and platform solutions. It also contributes to growth practices and mentors teammates while remaining actively involved in customer engagement and business development.

Design, develop, and maintain Java backend services across modern microservices and legacy enterprise platforms. Build REST and SOAP integrations, optimize Oracle database access, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to testing and CI/CD, and support application modernization. The role includes technical planning, architecture collaboration, code reviews, mentoring, documentation, stakeholder communication, roadmap execution, candidate interviews, and occasional client travel.

Develop and maintain reliable full-stack applications and services for government programs. Own software contributions across the lifecycle, troubleshoot complex issues, shape architecture, communicate with stakeholders, mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, improve engineering practices, interview candidates, and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools.

Develop and maintain high-availability full-stack applications for federal clients. Own application code, diagnose and resolve system issues, coordinate integrations, present technical designs, improve engineering processes, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires expertise in JavaScript frameworks, cloud platforms, CI/CD, databases, APIs, accessibility standards, and software testing, with strong communication and technical leadership skills.

The Product Manager III shapes product strategy, prioritizes backlogs and roadmaps, defines requirements and outcomes, and facilitates agile ceremonies for user-centered digital products. They collaborate with clients, stakeholders, engineering, design, research, and delivery teams; manage risks, dependencies, and delivery priorities; communicate product direction; use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate outcomes; and mentor junior team members. The role supports federal digital services, particularly Veterans Affairs programs, in a remote environment.

Leads product strategy and delivery for Veterans Affairs digital services. Builds stakeholder relationships, mentors product teams, guides cross-functional collaboration, develops roadmaps and success metrics, prioritizes user and customer outcomes, and coordinates partnerships across platforms. The role requires Agile product management expertise, understanding of integrations and APIs, and experience scaling partner onboarding and self-service models.

Lead DevOps strategy and infrastructure for federal programs as an individual contributor. Drive CI/CD and IaC best practices, mentor engineers, design cloud-native architectures (AWS/EKS), ensure security/CMS-NIST compliance for ATO, consolidate DevOps tooling, and represent technical tradeoffs to stakeholders while periodically traveling to clients.

The Senior Technical Growth Architect supports federal capture, proposal efforts, and aligns technical solutions with business growth strategies. This role focuses on developing technical narratives, collaborating across teams, and engaging with customers to ensure successful proposal submissions.

Lead design, build, and operation of secure, scalable cloud platforms. Automate infrastructure with IaC (Terraform), develop reusable CI/CD pipelines, integrate observability and security, support cloud migrations, improve developer experience, mentor engineers, and coordinate with stakeholders and federal clients to meet compliance and ATO requirements.

Design, build, and operationalize scalable AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines. Implement model lifecycle management (MCP), integrate agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain), manage vector DBs and feature stores, enable HITL workflows, maintain data architectures, mentor junior engineers, and present work internally and externally.

Senior individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and operating cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid network architectures. Troubleshoots and resolves network incidents, produces design documents and diagrams, mentors junior engineers, participates in hiring, and leads small projects to meet scope, schedule, and delivery goals.

Serve as an experienced individual contributor and mentor on data engineering initiatives. Design and implement data architectures, ingestion pipelines, cloud databases, and visualizations. Lead smaller teams or projects, present technical designs to stakeholders, diagnose and resolve system issues, and help shape the program's data strategy and best practices.

Senior network/security engineer responsible for Palo Alto firewall and Panorama administration, proxy engineering, DLP and SCM integration, packet-level troubleshooting (tcpdump/Wireshark), SIEM log correlation (Splunk/ELK), Zero Trust network design, and ensuring IRS/NIST boundary protection compliance. Leads firewall normalization, Panorama 12.x integration with Strata Cloud Manager, and DLP plugin upgrades.

Lead and own performance of complex technology programs or portfolios for federal clients. Oversee delivery, finances, contracts, staffing, subcontractors, risk, and stakeholder relationships. Drive strategic plans, metrics, change management, Agile practices, and continuous improvement while coaching teams and supporting capture, proposals, and growth activities.

Individual contributor full‑stack engineer supporting front- and back-end development. Estimate and complete development tasks, debug and maintain test and production systems, build tests/monitoring/CI-CD changes, participate in on-call rotations and planning, and collaborate on design and onboarding.