Senior Program Manager - Peraton
Reston, VA
About the Job
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will support the United States Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) in maintaining its information technology (IT) enterprise infrastructure. This individual will have a background in Dev Ops concepts.
Hybrid role. Must be local to the DC Metro area.
Day to Day Work Responsibilities:
- Manage program and project teams to ensure goals are completed on time.
- Responsible for all phases of the program budget.
- Perform analysis for contract reviews.
- Assign staff and provide technical direction as necessary to complete task.
- Monitor contract, subcontract, and funding; prepare forecasts of program financial performance.
- Develop and deliver required contract, departmental, project and/or financial reports.
- Coordinate and collaborate with customers, vendors, project teams, internal support functions and other stakeholders to ensure program objectives are achieved on time and within budget.
- Develop and facilitate program reviews and deliver status reports to senior leadership on budget, deliverables, staffing and risks.
- Identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives to drive cost efficiencies and advancement of capabilities.
- Prepare staffing, retention, and succession plans, to include skill and labor mix, to support contract operations.
- Responsible for timely recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of highly qualified staff.
- Ensure compliance with contractual and legal obligations, to include deliverables, SLAs and other performance standards.
- Identify current and future risks to programs efficiency or success.
Monitor program priorities, procedures, objectives, resource allocation, and areas of service.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship and must have the ability to obtain a DHS Entrance on Duty (EOD) clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree and 16 years’ experience.
- 10 years experience in project and program management.
- 5 years of experience managing IT projects and programs.
- Proven experience with managing using DevOps concepts.
- Exceptional technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
Experience managing teams that use agile methodologies.
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- ITIL4 Certification
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.