Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lockheed Martin is seeking a Manager of the Agentic Workflow Automation team within its Data and AI Enablement organization. The role leads approximately 40 AI/ML professionals, providing strategic direction, people leadership, technical oversight, and operational management for agentic workflow automation solutions across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Mentor and develop front-line leaders, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Build and retain a high-performing team of AI/ML professionals across multiple technical disciplines
- Conduct performance management, career development planning, and succession planning for team members
- Define and execute the team's strategic roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise AI strategies and emerging technologies
- Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape, evaluating new frameworks, models, and tools for potential adoption
- Drive the design, development, and delivery of agentic workflow automations that deliver measurable business value
- Manage 1LMX R3 and R4 release impacts to the AWA portfolio, ensuring seamless integration and minimal disruption
- Remove organizational and technical blockers, escalating issues as needed to maintain team velocity
- Oversee budget planning and resource allocation to optimize team effectiveness
- Build and maintain relationships with internal customers and stakeholders across business units
- Market AWA capabilities and solutions to drive adoption and identify new automation opportunities
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Provide architectural guidance and technical direction for complex agentic automation projects
- Ensure adherence to development standards, security protocols, and governance requirements
- Champion best practices in AI/ML operations, including monitoring, observability, and continuous integration/deployment
- Prioritize and balance multiple initiatives across the portfolio, managing dependencies and risks
- Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as automation impact, cycle time reductions, and ROI
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of integrated solutions
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
- * 7+ years of professional experience in software development, AI/ML engineering, or related technical roles
- * Demonstrated leadership experience, including leading teams, projects, or initiatives
- * Experience managing budgets and resource planning
- * Understanding of Python programming language
- * Experience with GitLab for source control, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps workflows
- * Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and container orchestration (OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- * Understanding of agentic automation frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration tools
- * Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- * Track record of mentoring and developing technical leaders
- * Experience with open-source RPA and UI automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, pywinauto, or similar libraries
- * Hands-on experience designing and implementing process automations (not limited to AI assistants or chatbots)
- * Knowledge of SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 ecosystem
- * Experience with COTS RPA platforms such as Blue Prism, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or similar tools
- * Understanding of 1LMX business processes and functional architecture
- * Experience working within the 1LMX Release process, including requirements gathering, functional specifications, and testing
- * ADKAR change management methodology certification or experience
- * Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Parental Leave
- EAP
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Education Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For Washington state applicants only, non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays.
- For Washington state applicants only, represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays.
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