Program Manager

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

📋 Description

• Direct the planning and execution of programs across simultaneous data, cloud, analytics, AI, and operational workstreams.

• Oversee an integrated project plan while managing dependencies, milestones, and priorities.

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

• Organize work sequences to align with approved priorities and release goals.

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

• Supervise team and individual project budgets, track actual and projected costs, monitor burn rates, and offer cost projections and corrective measures.

• Compile weekly status reports detailing costs, activities, schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items.

• Present briefings to FDIC stakeholders.

• Facilitate architecture, infrastructure, data, security, privacy, operations, and business stakeholder reviews.

• Oversee management processes for requirements, risk, issues, changes, and configurations, including FDIC Change Control Board and ServiceNow processes.

• Ensure that deliverables and sprint outcomes fulfill acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate quality reviews, continuous testing and validation, stakeholder feedback, and resolution of rework.

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

• Lead transition and continuity efforts, including knowledge transfer, resource coordination, documentation handoff, communication channels, risk mitigation, and ensuring readiness for uninterrupted operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing intricate technology programs or projects that involve multiple technical workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

• Proficiency in Agile delivery methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and tracking work through GitHub, Jira, or similar tools.

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

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

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

• Must meet FDIC personnel eligibility and background investigation prerequisites.

• 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 all work must be performed within the U.S.

• Experience in supporting federal or regulated technology modernization initiatives, especially in cloud, data management, analytics, AI, or enterprise platform projects.

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

• Experience working with FDIC or similar governance entities, including enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data governance, change control, A&A, ATO, or configuration management processes.

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

• Proficient in using GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, Jira, Power BI, Azure Monitor, or other comparable delivery and reporting tools.

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

• Familiarity with leading transition-in or transition-out activities, managing knowledge transfer, ensuring operational readiness, or continuity planning.

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

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

• Ability to communicate status, risks, decisions, and recommendations clearly to both executive and working-level audiences.

• Skill in organizing complex tasks into actionable plans with distinct ownership, sequencing, and follow-through.

• Competence in balancing scope, schedule, cost, quality, security, and operational risk.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential support for accommodations.

• Benefits offerings as referenced in Transparency in Coverage Act materials.