Director, Project Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Oversee program planning and execution across multiple data, cloud, analytics, AI, and operations workstreams.

• Maintain a comprehensive project plan while coordinating dependencies, milestones, and priorities.

• Develop sprint plans that include epics, backlog items, success criteria, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demonstrations.

• Manage product backlogs, requirements, code, artifacts, bug fixes, baselines, system features, and business rules using FDIC GitHub Enterprise or other approved tools.

• Control project budgets, track actual and projected costs, monitor burn rates, and provide cost forecasts and corrective actions.

• Prepare weekly status reports that address costs, activities, schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items.

• Provide briefings to FDIC stakeholders.

• Coordinate reviews involving architecture, infrastructure, data, security, privacy, operations, and business stakeholders.

• Manage processes related to requirements, risk, issues, changes, and configurations, including FDIC Change Control Board and ServiceNow processes.

• Ensure that deliverables and sprint outcomes meet acceptance criteria through quality reviews, continuous testing, validation, stakeholder feedback, and rework resolution.

• Supervise security and compliance coordination, including A&A and ATO support, NIST 800-53 controls, POA&Ms, Azure policy findings, hardening guides, Security Impact Assessments, and annual security assessments.

• Lead transition and continuity initiatives, such as knowledge transfer, resource coordination, documentation handoff, communication channels, risk mitigation, and readiness for uninterrupted operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing complex technology programs or projects with various technical workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and work tracking using GitHub, Jira, or similar tools.

• Experience in managing budgets, burn rates, schedules, risks, issues, action items, status reporting, and implementing cost or schedule corrective actions.

• Ability to coordinate cloud, data, application, security, infrastructure, or analytics teams and effectively translate technical challenges and trade-offs for business and government stakeholders.

• Competence in managing requirements, deliverables, change control, quality assurance, acceptance criteria, and version-controlled project documentation.

• Capability to meet FDIC personnel eligibility and background investigation standards.

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory due to federal contract stipulations.

• Candidates must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and perform all work within the U.S.

• Experience in supporting federal or regulated technology modernization initiatives.

• Familiarity with Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure AI services, or other equivalent cloud technologies.

• Experience collaborating with FDIC or similar governance entities and processes.

• Expertise in developing project, risk, requirements, security, architecture, data, testing, UAT, and transition documentation.

• Proficiency in using GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, Jira, Power BI, Azure Monitor, or similar tools.

• Experience in establishing KPIs, agile metrics, quality measures, stakeholder feedback loops, and QASP-style performance reporting.

• Proven ability to lead transition-in or transition-out activities, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, or continuity planning.

• Possession of PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent project or Agile certifications.

• Ability to lead with clarity and accountability across technical teams, government stakeholders, and partner organizations.

• Skill in communicating status, risks, decisions, and recommendations succinctly to both executive and working-level audiences.

• Ability to organize complex tasks into actionable plans with clear ownership, sequencing, and follow-through.

• Capacity to balance scope, schedule, cost, quality, security, and operational risk.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabilities, veteran status, and sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefit offerings referenced under the Transparency in Coverage Act.