Program Manager

Overview/ Job Responsibilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) mission is to lead the national effort to protect and enhance the resilience of the nation’s physical and cyber infrastructure.  CISA includes the CISA Mission Enabling Offices (MEOs) and six Divisions: the Cybersecurity Division (CSD), the Emergency Communications Division (ECD), the Integrated Operations Division (IOD), Infrastructure Security Division (ISD), the Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED), as well as, the National Risk Management Center (NRMC), which are headquartered within the National Capital Region (NCR).  

CISA’s information technology (IT) landscape has historically produced networks and systems individually managed and maintained within each of its Divisions as well as its MEOs.  This task order is to provide Enterprise Engineering and Operations Support Services (EEOSS) to CISA/OCIO to establish enterprise IT capabilities. These enterprise IT capabilities shall support CISA’s ability to continue establishing a modern IT infrastructure; engaging in various initiatives to evaluate and implement emerging technologies; migrating to the cloud; supporting mobility and collaboration platforms; and continually improving the performance, security, and availability of enterprise IT services.

Working with an enterprise network architecture, engineering, and implementation team supporting our Federal customer, the Program Manager supports program management and project management projects to include overall reporting to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), management and reporting of progress and activities in all task areas, coordinating and reporting on Contractor work on projects as directed by the Government project managers and leads, conducting the Kick-Off Meeting, and performing transition in/out activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction in the cost, schedule, and risk management of all IT projects within CISA program.
• Ability to manage 60 person team who are predominantly remote and geographically disperse
• Provides internal consulting, technical guidance, information and support to application developers, computer operations, company management and departmental clients. Assists in internal training programs.
• Experience working with MS Project, and Jira to develop or provide input to a project schedule as directed by the government project manager
• Experience coordinating performance of project tasks in PowerBI dashboards
• Identify project risks and develop a mitigation strategy
• Perform quality control for project deliverables
• Ability to work independently and in a Team atmosphere with hands on experience developing government contract deliverables including but not limited to weekly reports, monthly reports, budgets, data calls, and technical briefings
• Experience managing and tracking matrixed Teams across multiple functional groups and areas
• Experience implementing Government process improvements, executive briefing, ad-hoc tasking with minimal impact to overall contract delivery and schedules
• Experience working in mission driven environments with critical services and comfortable handling escalation of issues with senior Government Leadership
• Experience managing Project Managers and mentoring, delegating, and training members of the team
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT Systems, or other related discipline. Education may be substituted with 4 additional years of relevant experience. 

• Minimum 4 years management experience providing Project Management support in the IT field, including IT development and operations and interactions with federal customers
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and security compliance tools is required.
• Experience in developing / analyzing a risk framework using assessment data to drive recommendation strategy
• Deep understanding of IT infrastructure, IT modernization, and architecture development
• Demonstrated ability to run large scale programs end-to-end using PMBOK and Agile principles when applicable
• Prior experience managing field teams in complex technical environments
• Confidence in driving people to deliver objectives
• Demonstrated customer focus
• Champions and drives change initiatives
• Confronts difficult problems in a positive and creative way
• Balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to prioritize and assess impacts of issues to other resources
• Problem solver with sound judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail and follow-through
• Excellent collaboration skills; high-energy attitude

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Desired Qualifications

Certification:  PMP

Clearance Preference:

• • DHS EOD - 1st priority
  • Any DHS badge DoD Top Secret or Secret - 2nd choice
  • DoD Secret or Top Secret willingness to get EOD clearance - 3rd choice (it can take 45 days to obtain EOD clearance – work can only begin once the clearance is fully adjudicated)

About Sev1Tech LLC

Founded in 2010, Sev1Tech provides IT, engineering, and program management solutions delivery. Sev1Tech focuses on providing program and IT support services to critical missions across Federal and Commercial Clients. Our Mission is to Build better companies.  Enable better government. Protect our nation. Build better humans across the country.

Join the Sev1Tech family where you can achieve great accomplishments while fostering a satisfying and rewarding career progression.  Please apply directly through the website at: https://www.sev1tech.com/careers/current-openings/#/    #joinSev1tech

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Sev1Tech is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.