Senior IT Program Manager
Key Responsibilities
- Lead planning, execution, and delivery of enterprise IT modernization programs, ensuring alignment with DoD strategy, mission priorities, budget, and acquisition requirements.
- Provide Program Management Office (PMO) support including scheduling, risk management, budgeting, acquisition documentation, requirements tracking, and stakeholder communications.
- Oversee design, deployment, and sustainment of Zero Trust architectures, ensuring compliance with DoD Zero Trust Strategy and cybersecurity frameworks.
- Manage large-scale cloud adoption and migration initiatives across multiple security domains, leveraging AWS, Azure, or DoD-specific cloud environments.
- Drive integration of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science capabilities into enterprise workflows, ensuring responsible AI practices and mission alignment.
- Lead cybersecurity modernization initiatives, including accreditation, cyber risk assessments, continuous monitoring, and alignment with DoD cybersecurity policy.
- Cook up coordination across senior Pentagon stakeholders, Joint Staff, Services, OSD components, and mission partners, providing clear, actionable program guidance.
- Translate complex technical concepts into executive-level communications, briefings, roadmaps, and decision documents.
- Oversee contractor and vendor performance, ensuring delivery of requirements, milestones, and high-quality technical outputs.
- Foster collaboration among engineering teams, cyber teams, cloud architects, data scientists, and operational units.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related field (Master’s in similar, MBA, Management or related topic highly preferred).
- 10+ years of program or project management experience leading large-scale DoD or federal IT programs.
- Proven experience operating within the Pentagon, Joint Staff, OSD, or equivalent high-visibility DoD environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in: Cybersecurity and RMF, Zero Trust architecture, Cloud platforms and cloud migrations, AI/ML technologies and data analytics, Enterprise IT modernization, PMO support in federal/DoD settings.
- Strong understanding of DoD acquisition processes, policy frameworks, and budgeting cycles (PPBE).
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefing development.
- PMP certified or DAWIA certification(s).
- Experience deploying solutions within IL4/IL5/IL6/SIPR/JWICS environments.
- Experience guiding AI governance, responsible AI practices, or data strategy implementation.
- Experience with both FAR and Non-FAR Acquisition.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), or platform engineering.
Clearance Requirement
Active DoD Top Secret clearance (SCI preferred).
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