“This role will be responsible for overseeing a large Veteran’s Administration development effort, coordinating with strategic customers and partners, developing a program delivery vision, and enacting that vision.
The Sr. Program Manager will have authority over a highly visible, full lifecycle, Agile COTS SaaS implementation and integration effort. He/she must have demonstrated experience successfully managing large, complex IT solution development projects. The candidate must be well‐versed in a range of technical concepts including solution development life cycle, strategic information planning, Agile/scrum methodology, and business process engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Be an advocate for our VA customer stakeholders and the ultimate beneficiaries of our solution – our Nation’s Veterans
- Provide day-to-day leadership and guidance on a large-scale, enterprise wide, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) project
- Provide management oversight for employees, contractors, and sub-contractors
- Develop a keen understanding of program goals and requirements and develop a vision to both meet the customer’s current needs, and for evolution of the program to meet changing client needs
- Collaborate with project leadership and client stake holders to deliver the project on time, with high quality, and in alignment with the customer’s expectations
- Ensure targets for contractual performance metrics/SLAs are met or exceeded, and provide analysis and communication to ensure appropriate focus on critical attention areas
- Utilize performance metrics to track, manage, and analyze service delivery performance; communicate findings and proposed actions internally and to VA, as appropriate
- Oversee and drive the execution of system implementation, integration, and maintenance activities across local and/or remote teams in an agile environment
Required Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline)
- 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
- Experience managing Information Technology related projects, and well versed in life cycle and project management methodologies
- Experience in tracking costs, schedule and performance progress, and the identification and mitigation of risks”
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