As an Sr. IT Subject Matter Expert III, you’ll provide full-time onsite support in a complex, mission-critical government environment, designing advanced technical strategies, advising on highly complex IT developments, and solving critical organizational challenges. Our team is responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and innovative technology solutions across the federal government, and you’ll help strengthen mission operations while supporting the continued growth of MetroStar’s federal programs.

We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!

What you’ll do:

• Provide full-time onsite technical support and principal-level advisory coverage at the designated Government facility.
• Serve as a top-level authority on enterprise information technology, technical strategy, complex IT development, and mission-critical problem resolution.
• Design advanced IT strategies aligned with organizational priorities, operational needs, cybersecurity requirements, service objectives, and leadership's strategic vision.
• Advise senior Government and program leaders on highly complex IT developments, technology alternatives, integration risks, resource requirements, and implementation sequencing.
• Provide expert direction across enterprise infrastructure, systems integration, platforms, cloud-connected services, applications, data dependencies, identity, cybersecurity, and IT service management.
• Analyze organizational processes, technology portfolios, service delivery models, resource utilization, and operational constraints to identify enterprise-level improvements.
• Lead or guide resolution of mission-critical IT and organizational problems when requirements are incomplete or established approaches are insufficient.
• Translate highly technical specifications, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies into clear, decision-ready language.
• Develop enterprise technical strategies, modernization roadmaps, target-state recommendations, governance approaches, operating models, and corrective-action plans.
• Coordinate across infrastructure, network, systems, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, application, data, service-management, vendor, and mission teams.
• Review major technical designs, integration approaches, engineering plans, standards, procedures, service models, and IT-related deliverables.
• Mentor senior technical personnel and SMEs, establish consistent enterprise practices, and improve documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Support planned maintenance, major releases, incident response, contingency operations, and non-standard hours when required by the mission.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• 10+ years of relevant information technology, technical strategy, organizational process, enterprise integration, or mission-support experience, including principal-level advisory, enterprise oversight, or mission-critical problem-resolution responsibilities.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise IT strategy, architecture, integration, modernization, operations, and technical governance.
• Experience guiding complex enterprise IT development or transformation across multiple technical domains.
• Demonstrated knowledge of infrastructure, systems, applications, cloud services, cybersecurity, identity, data dependencies, and IT service-management considerations.
• Experience analyzing organizational processes and improving the alignment and utilization of technology, personnel, tools, licensing, and other resources.
• Demonstrated ability to solve highly complex technical or organizational problems with significant mission, service, operational, or enterprise impact.
• Experience advising senior leaders and communicating highly technical specifications, tradeoffs, and risk in common terms.
• Ability to establish technical direction across multiple teams or workstreams and support implementation of leadership's strategic vision.
• Exceptional analytical, written communication, executive briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical, engineering, business, or mission discipline preferred; advanced degree, expert credential, or equivalent principal-level experience preferred.

SALARY RANGE: $207,000 to $312,000

The salary range for this position is determined based on qualifications, skills, and relevant experience. The final salary offered will be determined based on several factors including: 

• The candidate's professional background and relevant work experience
• The specific responsibilities of the role and organizational needs
• Internal equity and alignment with current team compensation
• This role is also eligible for additional compensation, subject to the terms and policies of MetroStar, which may include:
• Performance-based bonuses
• Company-paid training and/or certifications
• Referral bonuses