Program Manager

Location: United States – Remote

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

What you'll do:

• Oversee and be responsible for all aspects of a fast-pacing project serving as direct interface with the client, managing project schedules, milestones, deliverables and budget in accordance with Federal, VA standards and guidelines.
• Ensure quality customer service, provide guidance on technical solutions, and maintain a good working relationship with all customer staff, in support of the program.
• Prepare for and conduct meetings, presentations and briefings related to all phases of the product lifecycle, while ensuring program goals of the VA and TISTA are met.
• Manage complex project-related issues and the implementation of solutions that involve the architecture and design, schedule, technology, methodology, tools, human centered design, components and change management including client walk-throughs, user acceptance testing and required documentation.
• Provide applications business and systems analysis, support long and short-range plans for product selection, requirements analysis, systems development, maintenance and operations following the systems lifecycle including production releases.
• Participating in PI Planning activities to ensure product and business owner requirements are met
• Serve as liaison to business and technical stakeholders to ensure success of the project.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong technical and business understanding of agile development
• Experience with Product Line Management, preferred
• Good understanding of security related policies, procedures, regulations.
• Sense of urgency is necessary to meet goals, objectives and deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and human relations skills
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical personnel
• Ability to work with people of varied technical backgrounds and management levels
• Solid technical integration skills
• Proven analytical skills
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret business requirements, system documentation, and technical procedures
• Understanding of cloud environments (MS Azure, AWS) and experience with migration of systems to the cloud
• Ability to quickly learn new tools supporting project management applying agile and SAFe methodologies
• Awareness of VA approved governance model, IT Infrastructure frameworks, Technical Reference Model, operating environments, infrastructure and application performance monitoring toolsets, and Government compliance regulations (NIST,FISMA, 508, and similar IT, OMB and congressional mandates)
• Education: Bachelor's and 15 years of relative experience