Top Senior Level Jobs in Washington, DC

Provides targeted literacy intervention through individual and small-group instruction, analyzes student reading data, monitors progress, and adjusts instructional plans. The specialist supports teachers through evidence-based literacy resources, professional development, coaching, and assessment coordination. Responsibilities also include school-wide literacy planning, parent communication, reading incentive programs, and collaboration with administrators and classroom teachers to improve student achievement.

Owns global travel and expense operations, including expense processing, reimbursements, policy compliance, exception management, corporate card reconciliation, virtual payables, audits, and controls. The role supports escalations, cross-training, workflow triage, systems administration, process improvement, and audit readiness while partnering with attorneys, firm leadership, travel teams, banking providers, and internal stakeholders.

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.

Designs and documents acquisition business processes for CISA, evaluates and redesigns workflows, develops assessment criteria and acquisition pathways, supports portfolio governance and taxonomy, and helps create implementation roadmaps and performance management processes.

Manage and scale infrastructure across data centers and AWS using infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management. Build and operate secure, maintainable deployments involving Kubernetes, EKS, containers, databases, firewalls, and AWS-native services. Improve system performance, observability, testing, and operational processes while collaborating with DevOps, platform, security, data science, and product teams. Lead major projects, mentor engineers, document solutions, and promote Agile engineering best practices in a regulated environment.

Lead federal sales efforts across Civilian and Defense agencies, managing the full enterprise software sales cycle from prospecting through close. Develop new business, expand customer relationships, engage federal systems integrators, and sell CloudBees’ CI/CD, DevSecOps, AI-assisted software development, and automation solutions. Navigate complex procurement cycles, build executive relationships, exceed quotas, close large deals, and communicate technical and mission impact to federal stakeholders.