Project Delivery Lead

Posted On 02/11/2026

IT Services

Work Experience 5+ years

NA

City Atlanta

State/Province Georgia

30334

Job Title: Project Delivery Lead –EAP Modernization Program

Location: Georgia (REMOTE)

NOTE:
This is a (Part time role) with Remote opportunity.

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) is undertaking a large-scale modernization of the Eligibility and Assistance Program (EAP) application, transitioning from a legacy COBOL-based mainframe system to a modern, cloud-native architecture built in Rust.

The Project Delivery Lead will be responsible for end-to-end delivery oversight of this highly complex modernization initiative, ensuring successful execution across requirements analysis, system design, development, automation, deployment, and production stabilization within a 10-month implementation timeline.

This role requires strong leadership in large-scale legacy transformation programs, Dev Ops-driven delivery models, cloud infrastructure provisioning, and secure application development.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the EAP modernization initiative within defined scope, timeline, and budget.
• Establish and maintain daily and weekly cadence meetings with DHS stakeholders and authorized users.
• Manage project plans, milestones, risks, issues, and escalation processes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including architects, developers, Dev Ops engineers, QA teams, business analysts, and infrastructure specialists.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements and technical implementation.

• Facilitate requirements workshops and stakeholder interviews across 25+ partners.
• Oversee indexing and documentation of EAP business processes.
• Ensure complete documentation of system requirements, business rules, and integration use cases.
• Validate reverse-engineered business logic from legacy COBOL system.

• Oversee analysis of the legacy COBOL mainframe system to identify:
• Undocumented functionalities
• Hidden business rules
• Guide architecture decisions with security as a foundational principle. Ensure:
• Embedded encryption and access controls
• Secure coding practices leveraging Rust’s memory safety features
• Define automated, auditable infrastructure provisioning architecture using Salt.
• Ensure support for complex green/blue deployment strategies with rollback capabilities.
• Govern documentation strategy using Ascii Doc and Antora within Git Lab repositories.

• Ensure development is performed using Rust with secure coding standards.
• Enforce Git Lab repository governance (branching, milestones, issue tracking, merge strategies).
• Oversee CI/CD implementation supporting:
• Automated testing
• Security validation
• Ensure automated documentation pipelines.
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, and defect resolution.

• Configuration management
• Secure credential management
• Oversee provisioning of Development, UAT, and Production environments.
• Ensure one-touch deployments across environments.
• Guide Kubernetes and AWS integrations, contributing enhancements to open-source Salt extensions.
• Ensure logging, monitoring, auditability, and regulatory compliance in the cloud-native environment.
• Lead production cutover planning and execution.
• Oversee 4-week controlled transition and stabilization period.
• Manage production hypercare support, incident triage, and issue resolution.
• Ensure successful knowledge transfer to OIT application team.
• Validate operational readiness for long-term support.

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 5+ years leading large-scale application modernization programs.
• Proven experience managing legacy system transformations (Mainframe/COBOL modernization preferred).
• Strong experience delivering cloud-native applications (AWS or equivalent).
• Experience leading Dev Ops-driven projects with CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure automation and configuration management tools (Salt preferred).
• Experience managing complex green/blue or zero-downtime…