Position Summary
Senior Program Manager to lead a large-scale health technology effort encompassing application modernization, operations, software delivery, DevSecOps, quality assurance, interoperability, migration, and technical support. The Senior Program Manager provides overall leadership, governance, and delivery oversight for a multidisciplinary team supporting mission-critical public health systems and is accountable for successful execution across cost, schedule, scope, quality, staffing, risk, deliverables, and stakeholder communications.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide overall program leadership and serve as a primary management interface.
• Direct and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across program management, product management, software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, quality assurance, data, interoperability, migration, technical support, and training.
• Manage program scope, schedule, cost, staffing, quality, risks, issues, dependencies, and contractual deliverables.
• Maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, release activities, resource plans, and delivery priorities.
• Ensure effective Agile delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams, including sprint planning, backlog management, release planning, and cross-team coordination.
• Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, communications, performance monitoring, and escalation processes.
• Lead risk, issue, and opportunity management and ensure mitigation actions are assigned, tracked, and resolved.
• Ensure technical and program activities comply with applicable Federal lifecycle, security, accessibility, quality, and documentation requirements.
• Oversee staffing, onboarding, continuity planning, resource allocation, and workforce performance.
• Prepare and present program status, accomplishments, risks, decisions, upcoming priorities, and performance information to senior stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
• 12+ years of progressively responsible experience managing IT, software development, modernization, or mission-critical technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong experience managing program cost, schedule, scope, staffing, quality, risk, and contractual deliverables.
• Experience managing Agile software development programs using Scrum, SAFe, or comparable Agile methodologies.
• Experience with IT lifecycle governance, SDLC, EPLC, or comparable lifecycle management frameworks.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent technical workstreams and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Strong understanding of software development, cloud computing, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, quality assurance, and IT operations concepts.
• Strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, facilitation, presentation, and written communication skills.
Education
Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Program Management, or a related field.
Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Program Management, or a related discipline.
Target Certifications
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• SAFe Agilist
• ITIL Foundation
Preferred Experience
• CDC, HHS, or other Federal health IT program experience.
• Public health surveillance or health information technology experience.
• Experience supporting NEDSS Base System (NBS) or comparable public health surveillance environments.
• Large-scale application modernization and legacy system transformation.
• Cloud environments such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and modern software delivery practices.
• Federal cybersecurity, FISMA, NIST, accessibility, and compliance environments.
• Experience managing Firm-Fixed-Price Federal technology programs.
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