About BlueForge Alliance (BFA)

BlueForge Alliance is an agile program integrator positioned to meet the intense and urgent demand to build capacity for the defense industrial base. We are a unifying organization converging technology, manufacturing, economics, and state and federal government to provide a forward-facing, federated umbrella with national visibility.

As a non-profit, neutral convener, BlueForge Alliance aligns strategy with execution to coordinate regional stakeholders, assess and propose high-value efforts, and rapidly establish and deploy U.S. Department of Defense investments. By streamlining competing priorities and viewpoints, we aim to increase manufacturing capacity and technology adoption, boost the number of available suppliers and diversify investment into the defense industrial base.

Position Description

The Metrics Lead role is critical in developing, maintaining, and optimizing our metrics infrastructure to support our mission-driven initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and social impact, leveraging systems engineering to support our organizational goals. In addition to the following details, by being a BlueForger, you will be expected to uphold and exemplify our values of Belonging, Selfless Service, Integrity, Leadership, Respect, and Excellence. We uphold these values upon a backbone of humility driven by a culture of safety, vulnerability, and purpose.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the definition and content of performance measures and metrics for DoD investments against targets and goals.
• Lead and collaborate across teams for implementing configuration management and data management of performance measures and metrics.
• Lead efforts across stakeholder groups to coordinate updates to metrics frameworks, definitions, and content.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in systems engineering and apply them to improve our metrics infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Advanced knowledge of performance measures and metrics techniques.
• Experience with relational databases or other similar frameworks.
• Experience coordinating/brokering agreements across stakeholders.
• Experience leading teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead working group meetings.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills/Abilities:

• Experience managing requirements, performance measures, and metrics content for project teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Atlas-SharpCloud and Palantir-Foundry.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerApps, PowerBI. and Lucid.
• Experience with systems engineering principles and practices.

Education, Certifications, and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of post-degree experience, or comparable combined education and experience, in the above fields or a related role, preferably in a non-profit or government contracting environment.
• Certifications such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) or Project Management Professional (PMP) are a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds.

Travel Expectations:

• Expected travel: Minimal - less than 10%.