Senior Federal IT Workforce Modernization Strategist

Steampunk; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Workforce / Organizational Design SME to lead an enterprise IT workforce modernization strategy for a large federal client. You will apply a zero-based design approach to position management, job architecture, and career pathing, delivering a prioritized implementation roadmap.

You will build workforce personas, standardize IT job families, and develop AI-enabled workflows with proper controls and data protections.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 10+ years federal workforce planning, HR strategy, or organizational design experience.
• Experience with OPM position classification standards and position description development.
• Experience building job family taxonomies and competency frameworks at enterprise scale.
• Experience applying zero-based or process-elimination design approaches to organizational or position-management redesign.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI-enabled HR/workforce management tools or workflows, including human-review and data-protection considerations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including working directly with HR/classification officials.
• Local to Baltimore, MD metro area and willing to go on client site at least 2 days a week

Responsibilities

• Deliver an Enterprise IT Workforce Modernization Strategy, covering current-state assessment, target operating model, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.
• Apply a zero-based design approach: question existing position-management processes and identify work to eliminate, simplify, standardize, consolidate, automate, or reassign before proposing any technology change.
• Build workforce personas and career journey maps to identify where staff stall or cannot advance, shaping visible technical, product, program, and leadership career paths.
• Establish a common taxonomy for IT job families, titles, occupational series, career levels, and competencies, and build a governed library of standardized, OPM-mapped position descriptions.
• Develop a crosswalk identifying comparable work, inconsistencies, and duplication across titles/series/grades, with recommended dispositions.
• Complete a workforce capability and skills-gap assessment.
• Design and deliver an AI-enabled future-state position management workflow with appropriate human review, controls, and data protections, usability-tested with HR practitioners and hiring managers.
• Build and maintain a succession-planning registry covering 100% of identified mission-critical IT roles.
• Validate all framework elements in co-design workshops with stakeholders, preserving their statutory authority.

Skills

Zero-based design

Stakeholder management

AI-enabled HR

Process elimination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Workforce / Organizational Design SME to lead an enterprise IT workforce modernization strategy for a large federal client. You will apply a zero-based design approach to position management, job architecture, and career pathing, delivering a prioritized implementation roadmap.

You will build workforce personas, standardize IT job families, and develop AI-enabled workflows with proper controls and data protections.