SAF/CNS Division Lead

Credence

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Training & Development

Job summary

Credence seeks a SAF/CNS Division Lead in the Washington, DC area. This senior role coordinates contractor efforts, chairs key integration activities, and serves as the main interface to SAF/CNS leadership.

The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, translate priorities into plans, and ensure timely, compliant delivery while briefing senior DoD leaders on modernization progress and risks. A Top Secret clearance and 12+ years of relevant experience are required.

Qualifications

Active DoD Top Secret clearance and ability to maintain it during performance.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise IT, policy, cloud, cybersecurity, or related fields.

Responsibilities

Lead and integrate contractor execution across SAF/CNS work and act as senior division interface to leadership.
Translate priorities into coordinated work plans and measurable outcomes; align with policy, architecture, and technology integration specialists.
Brief senior leaders on IT objectives, modernization progress, and risks; manage cross-functional dependencies and staffing.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Advising senior leaders

Cross-functional leadership

DoD knowledge

Hybrid NCR work

Executive briefings

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

PMP

CCNP/AWS/Azure certs

Job description

PENDING CONTRACT AWARD WINTER 2026

Overview

Join a team where innovation meets mission. Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With more than 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI & data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver on a scale and with purpose.

We’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for six consecutive years and named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming environment for those looking to grow and make a meaningful impact. We encourage employees to push boundaries and help solve critical, world-changing federal challenges.

Position Summary

Credence has an upcoming need for a SAF/CNS Division Lead. The SAF/CNS Division Lead serves as the senior contractor representative and day-to-day integration lead for all work performed in support of SAF/CNS. This Key Personnel designation is independent of the individual’s primary technical labor category. The selected Lead will also fill one of the eligible CNS technical assignments listed below while providing leadership across the full team. The Lead ensures that division products are technically accurate, actionable, coordinated across SAF/CN stakeholders, and delivered on schedule with minimal Government rework.

Primary Responsibilities

Division Leadership, Integration, and Executive Support

Lead and integrate contractor execution across all SAF/CNS work and serve as the principal division-level interface to SAF/CNS leadership and the Contractor Program Manager.
Translate DAF CIO priorities into coordinated work plans, assignments, decision products, and measurable outcomes; match work to the appropriate policy, architecture, cloud, ICAM, service-design, ESMA, or technology-integration specialist.

Brief senior DAF leaders on enterprise IT objectives, policy decisions, modernization progress, investment tradeoffs, and emerging risks.
Coordinate across SAF/CNZ, SAF/CNB, SAF/CND, SAF/CTO, OSD, Joint, MAJCOM, FLDCOM, program offices, and acquisition stakeholders to align enterprise IT activities and prevent policy or fielding delays.
Establish team priorities, monitor workload and suspenses, resolve cross-functional dependencies, mentor personnel, and elevate staffing, schedule, quality, or mission risks before they affect performance.
Review and approve team work products for technical accuracy, clarity, traceability to governing authority, and readiness for Government decision or publication, drawing on the responsible technical specialist when the product falls outside the Lead’s primary discipline.

Technical Contribution

Perform substantive technical work in at least one CNS mission area, based on the individual’s qualifications and assigned labor category: enterprise IT policy and executive briefings; network and infrastructure architecture; cloud integration; ICAM and Zero Trust; user experience and service design; enterprise services and ESMA governance; or technology integration and acquisition analysis.
Apply sufficient working knowledge across the remaining CNS mission areas to integrate specialist outputs, identify conflicts or gaps, understand technical and policy dependencies, and present a unified recommendation to Government leadership.
Advise leadership on the viability, cost, risk, interoperability, cybersecurity impacts, user impacts, and mission implications of enterprise IT governance and modernization approaches.
Ensure cross-cutting cloud, data, AI/ML, Zero Trust, portfolio, PPBE, and cybersecurity considerations are incorporated where relevant and coordinated with the appropriate SAF/CN division or stakeholder.
Maintain visibility of division trackers, governance actions, technical assessments, coordination status, publication milestones, service agreements, and delay risks.

Active DoD Top Secret clearance; must maintain the clearance and required access throughout performance.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, professional training, and directly relevant experience.
At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise IT, information technology policy, architecture, cloud, cybersecurity, service management, digital modernization, technology acquisition, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders and leading cross-functional technical teams in a complex Federal, DoW/DoD, or DAF environment.
Subject matter expertise sufficient to perform one or more CNS technical functions identified above, together with broad working knowledge of enterprise IT governance and modernization sufficient to lead and integrate a multidisciplinary team.
Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent priorities and develop or oversee executive briefings, decision-quality analyses, strategies, policies, architectures, roadmaps, service-management products, or technology recommendations.
Ability to work in a hybrid NCR environment, report to the Pentagon or other Government facilities as mission needs require, and perform independently without routine Government or Contract PM assistance

Preferred Qualifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Prior experience supporting SAF/CN, Headquarters Air Force, a Service CIO, DoW/DoD CIO, or an equivalent enterprise IT governance organization.
Relevant role-specific credentials, such as CCNP or equivalent, an AWS or Azure architect certification, CISSP, or ITIL Foundation, when aligned to the individual’s primary technical assignment.
Experience in two or more CNS mission areas, enabling effective integration across technical specialties.
Graduate degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, business, public policy, or a related discipline.

Performance Expectations

Owns the technical quality, integration, and timely delivery of CNS work products, including policies, executive briefings, architecture and modernization analyses, service-management products, and technology recommendations.
Ensures enterprise IT and policy products require less than 5% rework due to technical inaccuracy.
Maintains Government-visible trackers and analysis products covering policy status, infrastructure and migration candidates, ESMA governance information, technology assessments, risks, and dependencies.
Supports accurate and timely reporting through the Program Manager and identifies workload, dependency, schedule, and performance risks for inclusion in the Monthly Status Report.

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