Digital Architecture Program Analyst - Junior

Join a Company Where You Can Make a Real Impact – and Own a Piece of the Future

Are you energized by the idea of helping a company grow smarter, serve our customers better, and connect more deeply? Do you thrive in an environment where your ideas matter, your voice is heard, and your work drives real results? If so, we’d love to meet you.

We’re a mid-sized, employee-owned company on a mission to create meaningful value for both our employees and our customers. That means we’re not just looking for someone to fill a seat — we’re looking for someone who wants to build, innovate, and evolve with us.

Our company primarily serves the Navy and other Department of Defense clients, offering a dynamic environment where your expertise will make a difference.

About the Role

AVIAN is seeking a Program Analyst to provide operational, analytical, and program management support to the Digital Architecture Integrated Product Team (IPT). The successful candidate will support the planning, execution, and coordination of digital architecture initiatives by maintaining schedules, tracking deliverables, monitoring action items, and preparing programmatic reports and executive-level briefings.

This role serves as a key contributor to the day-to-day operations of the IPT and requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate across technical and functional teams. The ideal candidate will possess foundational project management experience and a working knowledge of digital engineering principles, Agile methodologies, and enterprise architecture concepts.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of Digital Architecture IPT activities, meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
• Track and manage action items, ensuring timely completion of tasks and coordination among cross-functional team members.
• Maintain and update integrated master schedules, project trackers, milestone plans, and deliverable timelines.
• Monitor project execution against established baselines and identify schedule impacts or potential risks.
• Collect, analyze, and report program performance metrics, resource utilization, and budget-related data.
• Develop executive-level briefings, dashboards, status reports, and other program management artifacts for leadership and stakeholders.
• Assist in identifying, documenting, tracking, and mitigating programmatic and technical risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Support the development and maintenance of project documentation, reports, and presentation materials.
• Utilize collaboration and project management tools to support program execution and information sharing across distributed teams.
• Provide administrative and analytical support to Digital Architecture leadership as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may be substituted for education requirements.
• Minimum of two (2) years of professional experience supporting program management, project coordination, systems engineering, digital engineering, or related activities.
• Experience supporting schedules, deliverables, action item tracking, and status reporting within a project or program environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment while managing multiple priorities.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience utilizing project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Scrum practices, and digital development environments.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Navy, or federal government programs.
• Experience preparing Procurement Initiation Documents (PIDs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Justification and Approval (J&A) documentation, or similar acquisition artifacts.
• Knowledge of digital engineering concepts, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), or enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience creating executive dashboards and data visualizations.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
• Due to the sensitivity of customer-related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Salary range: $77,000 - $80,000 (The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.) 

About being a part of Team AVIAN

As an employee-owner, you’ll be a catalyst for progress — helping us find new opportunities with current or new customers, company efficiencies, streamline processes, and bring people and ideas together in smarter ways. Whether it’s helping us optimize workflows, enhancing the employee experience, or delivering more impactful solutions to our customers, your inputs will have reach and relevance across the organization.

Taking care of each other is a cornerstone of our AVIAN philosophy. Being part of the AVIAN team means being part of a team that takes pride in being expansive in our community because our impact doesn’t stop in the workplace. We actively engage in community initiatives, empowering our employees to make a meaningful difference.

You’ll Succeed Here If You...

• See opportunities where others see routine
• Are curious, collaborative, and passionate about making things better
• Enjoy connecting dots across teams, tools, and tasks
• Believe in doing the right thing the right way — even when no one’s watching
• Play an active role in our growth, using your ideas and initiative to shape how we work, serve, and succeed together
• Embrace a “one team” mindset knowing we are stronger together through trust, transparency and teamwork.
• Understand the power of ownership — and are excited to be part of an employee-owned culture

Why Join Us?

• Employee Ownership: We’re not just building a company — we’re building a legacy. As an employee-owner, you’ll share in our success and have a direct stake in our future.
• Real Growth: We’re expanding, evolving, and exploring new ways to serve. Your contributions will shape our direction and help us grow stronger.
• Purpose-Driven Work: Every improvement you help make is one that adds value — not just for us, but for the people and missions we support.
• Culture of Collaboration: We’re big enough to take on meaningful challenges, but small enough that everyone still knows your name.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Designed to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being, our health and wellness benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with telemedicine services and a TRICARE supplement for veterans.
• Flexible Leave Benefits: we prioritize a balanced, supportive environment that allows you to thrive both personally and professionally and offer flexible and paid time off, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, maternity and bonding leave, and military training leave.

AVIAN is a service-based organization. As an equal opportunity employer, our policy of business is to seek the most qualified candidate for each talent opportunity without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, religious belief, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual preference, physical or mental handicap, lawful political affiliation or veteran’s status.