Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Management or other technically related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience
• Must have 4+ years demonstrated experience managing Federal and/or commercial implementations and Enterprise Business Systems
• Must have increasingly responsible experience defining, implementing, and managing project processes
• Must have increasingly responsible experience leading software development or business process automation projects or programs
• Must have increasingly responsible experience managing contracts or task orders of similar scope, size and complexity
• Must have demonstrated experience presenting to and engaging with client leadership (government SES level) and GDIT leadership (Sr. Director and VP levels)
• Good team player, able to manage multiple assignments, and adapt to changing client needs
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to business leaders
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance (Public Trust) and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• US Citizenship

Responsibilities

• Provide program management services on operations and maintenance and implementation initiatives
• Manage and lead multiple Task Orders and Task Order Leads as a cohesive large-scale program
• Supports efforts through design, development, and implementation of organizational and technical initiatives
• Identifies leading practices and operational improvements and creates and assesses performance measurements
• Collaborate with client to define future state vision, and plan and execute roadmap from current state to future state
• Generate milestone schedules to deliver functionality for target state of financial applications, and periodically provide updates on progress and deviations affecting schedule or quality
• For each application, assess risks, constraints, and resources required to meet client objectives for each financial application
• Document requests via Action Items and develop materials to respond to these requests
• Prepare ad hoc and periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) presentations and reports and present them to stakeholder(s)
• Capture and report on quantity-based performance metrics used to track core project functions for status reporting and invoicing
• Utilize professional judgment, critical thinking skills and research to improve program processes and resolve issues affecting program performance
• Manage the program’s risk management process, on/off-boarding processes, status reporting, and support Action Item management
• Manage on-time submission of quality contract deliverables
• Manage program financials, including P&L responsibility, forecasts, ETC and EAC, and not-to-exceed funding ceilings
• Proactively engage GDIT support organizations for effective delivery of program services, i.e. Contracts management, Sub-Contracts management, Financial management, Human Resources, Line of Business management

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation certification
• Scaled Agile Framework certification
• Agile Scrum Master certification
• Agile Product Manager or Product Owner certification
• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other technically related discipline, or MBA
• Valid Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred