Top Senior Level Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead and operate security control domains (identity, cloud, network, endpoint, monitoring). Deploy and harden tools, author architecture and runbooks, lead cross-team rollouts, mentor engineers, support SOC detection/response, and maintain audit-ready evidence and automation.

Supports private education loan partnership and vendor operations, including Advisory Committee coordination, program metrics, communications, conferences, and marketing alignment. Develops and maintains financial wellness, credit counseling, and debt management resources for medical students and financial aid professionals. Advises on MedLoans Organizer and Calculator, monitors trends in medical education financing, and manages FIRST program communications. Requires higher education financial aid, student lending, student loan servicing, or financial services experience.

Leads NPR’s corporate and executive communications strategy, including institutional messaging, executive speeches, media relations, stakeholder engagement, and communications for major organizational initiatives. Oversees announcement planning, proactive media outreach, sensitive issue response, and executive appearance preparation. Manages and coaches communications staff, coordinates cross-functional partners, maintains the corporate communications calendar, and ensures consistent messaging that strengthens NPR’s reputation and communicates its mission and impact.

Provides senior data science consulting for Air Force Mission Assurance, designing and sustaining Palantir Foundry data platforms, workflows, integrations, and decision-support tools. Applies advanced analytics, AI/ML, and statistical methods to mission data, translates insights for senior leaders, supports data architecture and governance, and coordinates platform enhancements. Requires active Top Secret clearance, ability to obtain Top Secret SCI clearance, a master’s degree, 10+ years of experience, and Palantir Foundry Application Developer certification.

Build and maintain metadata capture, transformation, and delivery pipelines for a data management platform. Develop backend services with Python, Java, and Node.js; integrate relational databases and REST APIs; implement Terraform infrastructure; and support GitLab CI/CD. Optimize distributed systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and secure asynchronous processing. Write automated tests, troubleshoot services using operational metrics, and contribute to AI/ML metadata pipelines, search, data lake, and LLM-powered initiatives.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for public policy, regulatory, and government affairs practices. Responsibilities include business planning, thought leadership, events, competitive intelligence, directory submissions, CRM management, proposals, presentations, marketing content, matter data, and profile development. The role partners with lawyers and firm leadership, manages projects independently, mentors junior staff, and supports strategic growth across offices and practices.

Administers and troubleshoots enterprise network infrastructure, including routers, switches, VLANs, ACLs, routing protocols, and cryptographic devices. Performs network changes, IOS upgrades, provisioning, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, STIG implementation, SOP development, site surveys, and network refresh projects. Requires independent problem-solving in remote locations, Cisco and Juniper expertise, TACLANE configuration knowledge, Cisco ISE familiarity, CCNA, IAT II, and TS/SCI clearance.

Act as the primary customer-facing business analyst for a portfolio of applications: gather and translate requirements into user stories, work closely with developers, map and optimize processes, document system requirements, perform testing, and support federal customers through agile delivery.

Manages IT infrastructure and mission-system projects from planning through implementation. Coordinates technical teams, program managers, stakeholders, contractors, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and service orders. Maintains project management plans, tracks cost and performance, prepares status reports, estimates effort and schedule, ensures SOW and contractual compliance, and manages risks, issues, and blockers in DoD and Intelligence Community environments.

Supports Federal agency relationships and bankcard program managers, driving portfolio profitability, growth opportunities, and client service. Responsibilities include account maintenance, reporting, data analysis, technical troubleshooting, file extract issue resolution, system integration coordination, account reviews, sales presentations, client onboarding, and collaboration with technology and operations partners. The role also supports special projects and communicates impacts of technical releases, upgrades, and platform changes.