Location: Washington, DC metro area (hybrid/remote considered)
About the Role
We’re looking for a Program Manager to lead delivery of a data management services engagement for a federal government client. You’ll own the schedule, risk register, and stakeholder communication across a multi-workstream data program, coordinating technical, operational, and governance teams and representing the program to client leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain an Integrated Master Schedule covering milestones, dependencies, and critical-path activities
- Run recurring status reviews summarizing accomplishments, risks, issues, actions, and upcoming priorities
- Prepare and deliver executive-level briefings for client leadership and stakeholders
- Maintain a continuously updated risk, issue, and action-tracking register
- Coordinate planning across multiple workstreams, ensuring consistent communication between technical, operational, and governance teams
- Plan, execute, and review work in two-week agile sprints, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Maintain agile artifacts (product backlogs, sprint backlogs, burndown charts) to track progress
- Prepare and submit monthly status reports and own the program’s quality assurance plan
- Lead project kickoff and coordinate onboarding logistics with the client
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing IT or data services engagements in a government or other regulated environment, including work with client stakeholders and structured deliverables
- Experience delivering work under SLAs with documented quality controls and formal acceptance processes
- Proven ability to run agile delivery (sprint planning, backlogs, retrospectives) for technical teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience producing executive-level briefings and status reporting
- Experience overseeing data engineering, cloud (AWS), or database services engagements preferred
Preferred Certifications
- PMP or PMI-ACP
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect – Associate
Additional Requirements
Must be able to pass a federal background investigation prior to starting work and maintain eligibility throughout the engagement.
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