AI Readiness and Automation Lead

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Unissant is seeking an AI Readiness and Automation Lead to support a newly awarded program for a federal health agency. Reporting to the Program Manager and coordinating technical execution with the Cloud/DevSecOps Architect, this role leads contract AI readiness, adoption planning, and measurement of approved automation benefits.

The ideal candidate combines practical AI and automation knowledge with strong assessment, documentation, and stakeholder skills. This person can turn potential use cases into controlled pilots and verify that adoption improves delivery without compromising quality or Government information.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess the application portfolio, delivery practices, workforce skills, data readiness, and technical dependencies to identify suitable AI and automation opportunities.
• Develop and maintain the AI Readiness Roadmap with Government stakeholders, incorporating feedback, readiness gaps, recommended actions, dependencies, and adoption priorities.
• Develop the AI Usage and Governance Plan following Government roadmap approval, defining permitted use, human review, information handling, audit records, and operational controls.
• Coordinate tool evaluation and provisioning dependencies with the Program Manager, Cloud/DevSecOps Architect, security personnel, and Government decision makers.
• Establish the labor-effort baseline after approved AI tools are provisioned, documenting work categories, data sources, measurement methods, and assumptions.
• Coordinate bounded pilots for code comprehension, requirements analysis, test generation, document drafting, or repetitive workflow automation using authorized tools and environments.
• Work with data, RPA, application, and DevSecOps specialists to implement approved use cases and integrate validated outputs into existing delivery processes.
• Maintain use-case records, review evidence, usage logs, risks, exceptions, and approval status; ensure named reviewers validate AI outputs before operational or production use.
• Measure effort, quality, coverage, tool consumption, and operating-cost effects against the baseline, supporting Government review before efficiency or staffing benefits are credited.
• Coordinate role-specific training, adoption guidance, reusable practices, and readiness reporting; track roadmap and governance deliverables in the program schedule and deliverable register.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 10-14 years of experience leading AI readiness, automation adoption, or comparable technology-improvement initiatives involving technical and business stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of AI-assisted software delivery, workflow automation, and the limitations of generated content and engineering outputs.
• Ability to assess data, process, workforce, security, and infrastructure readiness and translate findings into an actionable adoption roadmap.
• Experience defining pilot scope, acceptance criteria, human review, traceable evidence, and controls for sensitive information.
• Ability to establish effort baselines and evaluate productivity, quality, and cost effects using documented and reproducible methods.
• Experience coordinating technical specialists and developing clear guidance, plans, risk records, and executive or Government status reports.
• Ability to work within approved tool and data-access boundaries and collaborate with security, architecture, operations, and delivery teams.
• Ability to meet federal suitability and access requirements and provide on-site support in the Bethesda, Maryland area as directed.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Federal AI adoption or application modernization, preferably within a federal health agency or comparable federal IT environment.
• Experience with retrieval-supported analysis, source validation, AI-assisted coding or testing, or production RPA implementations.
• Experience incorporating AI and automation into CI/CD, requirements management, program reporting, or service-management workflows.
• Experience preparing AI usage controls, audit evidence, workforce training, and repeatable adoption practices.
• Experience distinguishing task-level effort savings from staffing reductions and verified financial benefits.

Education:

• A degree or relevant coursework in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• Relevant AI, cloud, data-platform, automation, or DevSecOps credentials are preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate professionally across Government, prime contractor, and subcontractor teams.
• Ability to explain AI capabilities and limitations in plain language, facilitate Government working sessions, and present readiness findings, pilot results, risks, and measured benefits with supporting evidence.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must hold or be eligible for a Public Trust Moderate (Tier 2) background investigation and meet applicable federal suitability, badging, and system-access requirements.

Travel:

• Washinton, DC.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly a routine office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
• Flexible in working extended hours

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

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