Program Director

About the role

The Program Director holds single-point accountability for the successful delivery of a large-scale, greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial management modernization program for a Department of War (DoW) organization, a multi-year engagement valued at approximately $40 million annually across a five-year performance period. This position owns program financial performance, delivery outcomes, contractual compliance, and the client relationship at the executive level, directing an integrated team of C5MI personnel and teaming partners across nine financial process areas and a five-gate milestone structure spanning pre-design approval through production readiness and closeout. The Program Director sets program vision and operating model, owns the program budget and margin, approves headcount and major investments, and serves as the senior C5MI representative to government program leadership, ensuring the delivered solution achieves audit readiness, interoperability, and sustainment objectives while remaining within cost, schedule, and technical baselines.

Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Responsibilities

• Owns overall program profit and loss, including revenue recognition, margin performance, cost controls, and variance management across the base deployment period and all sustainment option periods.
• Establishes the program operating model, governance cadence, and organizational design; approves headcount, subcontractor spend, vendor commitments, and major investment decisions within delegated authority.
• Directs delivery of firm-fixed-price, outcome-based milestones across all nine financial process areas, ensuring each milestone gate is achieved with government-verifiable acceptance criteria satisfied.
• Serves as the executive interface to the government program office, senior civilian and military leadership, and the contracting officer and contracting officer’s representative.
• Leads the integrated program team, including deputy program management, solution and platform architecture, functional delivery, development, test, data migration, change management, and training leadership.
• Governs teaming partner and subcontractor performance, including scope, deliverable quality, integration of partner capability into the program baseline, and adherence to subcontracting plan commitments.
• Owns the program risk and opportunity management process; drives identification, quantification, mitigation, and executive escalation of cost, schedule, technical, security, and staffing risk.
• Ensures program execution complies with applicable acquisition and business system policy, including DoDI 5000.75 for defense business systems, the software acquisition pathway under DoDI 5000.87, and defense business system certification requirements under 10 U.S.C. § 2222.
• Directs preparation and delivery of contract data requirements list (CDRL) deliverables, monthly status reporting, integrated master schedule updates, and earned value or equivalent performance reporting.
• Accountable for favorable contractor performance assessment (CPARS) ratings and for the program’s reference value in future federal pursuits.
• Champions the program’s audit-readiness objectives, ensuring the delivered solution supports financial statement auditability, internal control over financial reporting,