Senior Intelligence Team Lead | TS/SCI | AI-Driven Defense

Peraton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Intelligence Team Lead to manage a major program, staffing and funding, and deliverables. The role requires expertise across all-source intelligence, strong leadership, and experience with IC tools.

You will coordinate with the customer and COTR, oversee subcontractors, and ensure schedule, cost, and technical performance. Responsibilities include staffing plans, task direction, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Poly Required.
• Expert-level familiarity with threats to the Indo Pacific and Asia area of responsibility, including but not limited to leadership intentions, military force capabilities, regional dynamics, and cross-domain threats.
• Requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field with a minimum of 15 years of experience in all-source intelligence analysis, with at least 3 years in a supervisory or team lead capacity.
• Knowledge of and experience working across various Defense Intelligence Agency organizations and across Defense Intelligence Enterprise stakeholders.
• Expert knowledge of customer processes, programs, and policies across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, including familiarity with OUSD(I&S), CCMD J2 requirements, and IC analytic community standards.
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience supporting Defense Intelligence Enterprise programs, including direct experience managing or overseeing intelligence analysis production requirements.
• Expert-level familiarity with ICD 203/206 (Analytic Standards), including sourcing, uncertainty, and analytic tradecraft standards; demonstrated ability to enforce and evaluate compliance across junior analyst products
• Demonstrated ability to lead and supervise teams of intelligence analysts, including assigning workloads, reviewing finished intelligence products for analytic rigor, and providing mentorship and performance evaluations
• Aptitude for or demonstrated experience integrating Artificial Intelligence tools into all-source intelligence analysis workflows.
• Ability to identify application of Large Language Model platforms to intelligence summarization, entity extraction, document exploitation, and automated reporting pipelines.
• Superior organizational and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to interface effectively across all levels of government.
• Expert proficiency in MS Office Suite and IC-specific analytic tools

Responsibilities

• Direct the work of employees and subcontractors assigned to the team, providing leadership and mentorship.
• Prepare Staffing Plans, including skill and labor mix, to support contract operations.
• May recruit, interview, and hire staff.
• Assign staff and provide technical direction to complete tasks.
• Monitor contract, subcontract, and funding; prepare forecasts of program financial performance.
• Develop and deliver required contracts, departmental, project and/or financial reports.
• Assist new staff members in starting work on new tasks.
• Coordinate with Security on crossover and orientation and provide time and attendance instructions and assistance as needed.

Skills

TS/SCI with Poly

Indo-Pacific threats

All-source analysis

Team leadership

AI/ML in intel

LLM applications

IC tools familiarity

Policy liaison

MS Office & IC tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Palantir

Analyst Notebook

Intelink

Classified cloud

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Intelligence Team Lead to manage a major program, staffing and funding, and deliverables. The role requires expertise across all-source intelligence, strong leadership, and experience with IC tools.

You will coordinate with the customer and COTR, oversee subcontractors, and ensure schedule, cost, and technical performance. Responsibilities include staffing plans, task direction, and reporting.