Client Integration Lead

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a Client Integration Lead onsite in McLean, Va to serve as the senior relationship authority between program leadership and the customer enterprise - and as the integrator across a network of interagency and private-sector partners including the Law Enforcement and the broader Intelligence Community. This role bridges the gap between intelligence and action by cultivating collaboration, driving information sharing, and ensuring that mission priorities flow seamlessly from senior customer leadership through the full whole-of-government partner ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Relationship Management & Strategic Alignment

• Establish and sustain senior-level relationships across IC directorates, mission centers, and oversight offices to serve as the authoritative voice of the customer within the Program Management Office.
• Interface directly with senior customer leadership to ensure program execution continuously reflects current and emerging mission priorities, organizational strategies, and operational requirements.
• Serve as the primary conduit between customer leadership and PMO leadership, ensuring accurate, timely, and actionable communication flows in both directions without distortion or delay.

Mission Partner Integration - Whole-of-Government

• Serve as the mission integrator lead across 30+ interagency and private-sector partners, state and local law enforcement
• Cultivate sustained collaboration and structured information-sharing frameworks across the full partner ecosystem, ensuring intelligence reaches the right partner at the right classification level to drive operations and support law enforcement, kinetic, and source-development outcomes.
• Identify and close coordination gaps between IC analytic functions and Federal law enforcement operational requirements, ensuring intelligence is not only produced but actioned across the whole-of-government enterprise.
• Facilitate interagency engagement events, intel-sharing conferences, and partner coordination forums that strengthen mission relationships and expand the program's operational reach.

Directorate-Level Integration

• Lead a team of Client Integration Specialists aligned to distinct customer directorates and functional offices, ensuring dedicated coverage and relationship continuity across the full customer enterprise.
• Meet regularly with Task Leads to facilitate cross-directorate integration at the task order level, identifying interdependencies, resolving coordination gaps, and ensuring no customer requirement falls through the cracks.
• Proactively identify evolving technical requirements and mission needs at the directorate level before they become performance gaps, surfacing them to PMO leadership with recommended courses of action.

Requirements Interpretation & Adjudication

• Interpret and translate complex, often ambiguous customer requirements into clear, actionable direction for technical teams, task leads, and transition personnel.
• Ensure customer feedback is systematically captured, acknowledged, and adjudicated - closing the loop with both the customer and internal program leadership on all open items.
• Supplement quality oversight by providing an independent customer-facing lens on program performance, analytic product quality, and mission alignment.

Enterprise Communication & Collaboration

• Facilitate enterprise-wide communication and collaboration across IC directorates, mission centers, and interagency partners, actively reducing organizational stovepipes and enabling increased intelligence sharing across the whole of government.
• Develop and maintain structured engagement cadences - including regular directorate touchpoints, partner coordination sessions, leadership briefings, and task order integration meetings

Team Leadership

• Direct the daily activities of Client Integration Specialists, providing guidance on customer engagement strategies, requirement interpretation, partner coordination, and directorate-specific mission context.
• Develop and maintain a matrix alignment model that maps team members to customer directorates, functional offices, and key mission partners, adjusting coverage as mission priorities and organizational structures evolve.
• Mentor team members on IC operations, interagency dynamics, customer relationship management, and the ability to navigate complex whole-of-government environments with credibility and discretion.

Performance & Quality Oversight

• Provide supplemental quality oversight by continuously monitoring whether program outputs and analytic products reflect the customer's stated and implied requirements and partner operational needs.
• Establish feedback mechanisms that give customer leadership and mission partners multiple channels to surface concerns, priorities, and emerging needs - ensuring the program remains responsive and adaptive throughout the task order life.
• Report customer satisfaction trends, partner integration gaps, and mission risks to PMO leadership with sufficient lead time to enable course correction.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Minimum of 12 years relevant experience with BS/BA
• Requires 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Political Science, International Relations, Intelligence Studies, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in IC program support, customer engagement, or mission management, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership or client-facing capacity; demonstrated experience coordinating across IC, Federal law enforcement, and interagency partner organizations.
• IC & Partner Knowledge: Deep institutional knowledge of IC organizational structures, Federal law enforcement equities, interagency coordination protocols, and the operational dynamics of whole-of-government CT and CN mission environments.
• Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and executive communication skills; demonstrated ability to build trust with senior government and law enforcement leadership, navigate complex multi-agency environments, and drive collaboration and information sharing across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting IC enterprise-level programs in a customer advocacy, mission integration, liaison, or senior advisory capacity.
• Familiarity with IC analytic standards (ICD 203), IC Data Strategy, and interagency intelligence sharing frameworks.
• Direct experience working with or coordinating across FBI, DEA, CBP, DHS, JSOC, or equivalent Federal law enforcement and military partners in a CT or CN mission context.
• Experience managing geographically or functionally distributed teams aligned to distinct customer and partner portfolios.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field or equivalent senior IC leadership experience

Details

Target Salary Range: $176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

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