Executive Product Strategy Advisor for Federal Systems

Goldschmitt and Associates; Leesburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Medical insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

FSA/HSA

Commuter benefits

Adoption assistance

Employee assistance program

Caregiver support

Health advocacy

Financial wellbeing

Job summary

Goldschmitt and Associates LLC is seeking an Executive Product SME to provide senior practitioner expertise to Federal Student Aid as it transforms how complex technology products and platforms are governed, prioritized, engineered, delivered, and continuously improved.

This role goes beyond traditional Agile coaching or classroom product-management; the SME will lead large technology and engineering organizations and help establish practices to manage technology as enduring products rather than

Qualifications

• At least 15 years of senior technology, product, engineering, or platform leadership experience.
• Able to pass a 6C Public Trust investigation, including US citizenship.
• Experience leading global or distributed engineering organizations.
• Experience modernizing large-scale legacy platforms.
• Experience with acquisition integration or consolidation of overlapping technology environments.
• Experience managing enterprise data platforms and platform products.

Responsibilities

• Advise FSA leadership on the design and maturation of an enterprise product operating model.
• Coach product, technology, and engineering leaders on product ownership, decision rights, prioritization, roadmap development, and outcome-based management.
• Help FSA establish operating practices that connect product strategy, architecture, engineering, data, operations, security, reliability, and user outcomes.
• Evaluate current delivery models and recommend changes to organizational structure, governance, SDLC practices, roadmap processes, and decision-making.
• Provide an independent executive perspective during major technology, architecture, platform, integration, and product decisions.
• Challenge technical or process assumptions presented by delivery organizations and SI partners when those assumptions constrain delivery or outcomes.
• Help FSA differentiate architectural, security, or engineering dependencies from inherited practices.
• Advise on platform and product ownership, technical debt, lifecycle management, and modernization priorities.
• Guide development of meaningful product measures that connect strategic objectives with user needs and operational health.
• Facilitate executive product and technology reviews, roadmap reviews, and complex decision sessions.
• Mentor FSA product owners and leaders in working with large engineering and systems integrators.
• Support development of sustainable product-management standards and governance frameworks.

Skills

Executive leadership

Operating model transformation

Enterprise product ownership

Cloud & data platforms

APIs & distributed systems

DevOps / CI-CD

Reliability engineering

Executive communication

Decision making with business value

Job description

Goldschmitt and Associates LLC is seeking an Executive Product SME to provide senior practitioner expertise to Federal Student Aid as it transforms how complex technology products and platforms are governed, prioritized, engineered, delivered, and continuously improved.

This role goes beyond traditional Agile coaching or classroom product-management; the SME will lead large technology and engineering organizations and help establish practices to manage technology as enduring products rather than