Senior IT Program Manager

Salary: $190,000 - $210,000/year

Work location
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Federal customer locations in the National Capital Region. Remote work may be available depending on customer requirements.

• Serve as the accountable senior leader for a complex, multi-year VA enterprise modernization and systems-integration program.
• Lead end-to-end program execution, including mobilization, transition, discovery, planning, implementation, Initial Operating Capability (IOC), operational stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and lead an integrated PMO supporting program controls, integrated master scheduling, financial/resource management, risk management, deliverables governance, quality management, and executive reporting.
• Direct multiple concurrent technical and functional work streams, ensuring dependency management, risk visibility, integrated execution, and on-time delivery.
• Partner with the Deputy Program Manager / IOC Lead to drive accelerated IOC readiness, implementation sequencing, milestone achievement, and issue resolution.
• Act as the principal customer-facing delivery executive for VA executives, program leadership, technical stakeholders, business owners, and teaming partners.
• Translate mission objectives into an executable roadmap, governance cadence, integrated delivery plan, staffing model, performance measures, and decision framework.
• Lead program-level planning and control for ITSM/ESM, asset/configuration management, service catalog, workflow automation, integrations, data management, reporting, testing, training, and organizational change.
• Oversee staffing, key-personnel readiness, surge planning, subcontractor/teaming-partner coordination, and workforce retention.
• Ensure disciplined execution of schedules, resource plans, risk/issue registers, decision logs, executive dashboards, status reports, quality plans, and deliverable calendars.
• Manage financial performance and forecast labor/subcontractor needs in partnership with contracts and finance.
• Lead executive steering committees, program reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, and integrated workstream meetings.
• Identify and mitigate risks involving readiness, data, integrations, dependencies, staffing, stakeholder alignment, and schedule compression.
• Support proposal, oral presentation, customer-engagement, and post-award transition activities as a potential named key person.

Tools & Technology Environment: Microsoft 365/SharePoint, Confluence and the OCIO ZTA Wiki, Jira;
Microsoft Accessibility Checker and Adobe Acrobat for Section 508 checks.

• 15+ years of progressive experience delivering large, complex federal IT, digital transformation, enterprise-platform, ERP, or systems-integration programs.
• 10+ years in senior program or portfolio management roles with accountability for delivery, customer engagement, staffing, schedule, financial performance, risk, and subcontractor/team leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise program with multiple concurrent work streams, significant technical interdependencies, and a large multidisciplinary workforce.
• Demonstrated experience leading a program at significant scale—preferably $100M+, 75+ FTEs, or a comparably complex portfolio of enterprise initiatives.
• Experience establishing and operating a PMO, including integrated master scheduling, program controls, risk/issue management, financial/resource management, configuration/change control, reporting, and deliverables management.
• Proven experience leading accelerated implementation, transition, modernization, or operational-readiness efforts with fixed milestones and high executive visibility.
• Experience managing complex stakeholders across business, IT, security, architecture, operations, procurement, and executive…