Requirement for Sr Program Manager ---- Remote

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.