Program Manager

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

📋 Description

• Provide comprehensive leadership, accountability, and executive-level coordination for contract performance.

• Oversee the integrated IV&V delivery organization and uphold the Government-approved management baseline.

• Act as the primary contractor management liaison to VA program and government stakeholders.

• Lead the creation and upkeep of the Contractor Project Management Plan.

• Manage the integrated master schedule and work breakdown structure for Government and contractor IV&V activities.

• Coordinate IV&V activities across implementation-wave testing, iFAMS operations and maintenance releases, product reviews, requirements traceability, dashboards, metrics, risk management, and optional tasks.

• Supervise weekly, monthly, bi-weekly, executive, and test-readiness reporting, findings, recommendations, and contract communications.

• Track performance against the management baseline and drive corrective actions for schedule, cost, staffing, quality, or technical deviations.

• Inform VA leadership of significant risks and issues, presenting impacts, mitigations, required decisions, owners, and resolution dates.

• Lead planning for technical kickoffs and work-plan presentations.

• Approve staffing allocations and succession plans while overseeing onboarding, access, training, background-investigation readiness, and performance continuity.

• Ensure adherence to VA FMBT IV&V JIRA procedures, Agile methods, deliverable-management processes, Section 508, information-security requirements, and IEEE-based IV&V practices.

• Provide executive leadership to foster collaboration among technical leads, SMEs, subcontractors, VA stakeholders, system integrators, and other FMBT workstreams while maintaining IV&V independence.

⛳️ Requirements

• PMP certification is mandatory.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in implementing program-management techniques related to federal IV&V processes, Agile testing, development methodologies, and industry best practices.

• Experience in managing a large, complex, enterprise-wide federal IT program with multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, and mission-critical deliverables.

• Proven experience directing integrated schedules, work breakdown structures, staffing plans, risk and issue management, executive reporting, quality control, and contract deliverables.

• Ability to distill detailed testing, requirements, defect, and release information into clear leadership-level decisions and status communications.

• Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery, risk-based IV&V, software testing governance, Microsoft Project, JIRA, Xray, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Office.

• A Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, information technology, project management, or a related field; or 8 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

• Capacity to successfully complete and maintain the VA-required Tier 2 / Moderate Risk background investigation and suitability requirements.

• Proficient in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English, with the ability to work effectively in a remote, highly collaborative federal environment.

• Preferred: Prior experience with VA FMBT, iFAMS, CGI Momentum, federal financial-management modernization, or a comparable ERP program.

• Preferred: Experience managing independent testing for implementation waves and production sustainment releases, including automated regression testing and senior-level test-readiness briefings.

• Preferred: Experience supporting GAO, OIG, FISMA, or FISCAM audit activities.

• Position is contingent upon contract award.

• Selected candidates may be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Voluntary Life Insurance

• 401(k)

• Basic Life A&D

• Short-term disability (STD)

• Long-term disability (LTD)

• PTO

• Telehealth

• Paid holidays

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Traveling Assistance