{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ffe6e95c2f8bc6da4b5ab80c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ffe6e95c2f8bc6da4b5ab80c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ffe6e95c2f8bc6da4b5ab80c","title":"Director, Program Management","description":"Job Title: Director, Program Management\n\nLocation: McLean, VA (On-Site)\n\nCompany: BLN24\n\nAbout Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us\nBLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.\n\nJob Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced and strategic Director, Program Management to lead federal client engagement, technical and program delivery, and internal PMO operations across a portfolio of government contracts and technology initiatives.\nThis leader will serve as a senior point of accountability for assigned federal clients and programs, with significant responsibility for leading integrated technical delivery across Agile development, Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and program management. The Director will ensure contractual commitments, financial targets, technical delivery objectives, system performance, and client expectations are consistently achieved while strengthening PMO governance and operational excellence.\nThe ideal candidate is a technically fluent program leader who combines federal contracting and client management experience with strong technical delivery, financial management, and PMO leadership. This individual must be equally comfortable engaging with federal executives and Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs), leading technical and program teams, managing complex delivery challenges, reviewing program financials, and briefing executive leadership on program performance and risk.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\nServe as the senior relationship and escalation point for assigned federal clients, building trusted relationships with government executives, CORs, Contracting Officers, and key stakeholders.\nLead integrated technical and program delivery across Agile development, O&M, and program management, ensuring alignment with client mission, contractual requirements, scope, schedule, budget, and performance objectives.\nPartner with technical leads, architects, product owners, and Agile teams to manage technical roadmaps, releases, dependencies, risks, production issues, and delivery commitments.\nDrive quality, system performance, and continuous process and performance improvement across development, O&M, and program management activities.\nEnsure mission-essential systems and operations maintain required levels of availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and performance; drive corrective actions for delivery or operational issues.\nLead program roadmaps, change management, governance, and impact assessments, ensuring alignment among client priorities, technical delivery, delivery capacity, and stakeholder expectations.\nLead and develop program and project managers while partnering across Technology, Finance, Contracts, Talent/HR, and Growth to ensure successful program execution.\nEstablish and continuously improve internal PMO standards, governance, tools, reporting, and project management processes.\nOversee program financial and contract performance, including revenue, margin, budgets, forecasts, utilization, profitability, funding, staffing, and subcontractor management.\nDevelop program and account strategies aligned with federal client priorities; identify organic growth and recompete opportunities and support capture and proposal activities.\nProvide executive visibility into program and technical delivery health, including milestones, releases, financial performance, client satisfaction, risks, dependencies, production performance, and corrective actions.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.\n10+ years of program or project management experience, including significant experience supporting federal government clients, contracts, and large-scale technology programs.\n5+ years of leadership experience managing program, project, technical delivery, or multidisciplinary teams and complex portfolios.\nDemonstrated experience leading technical delivery for large-scale federal digital services or mission-essential systems encompassing Agile development, production O&M, and program management.\nStrong technical fluency and demonstrated ability to work effectively with architects, engineering leaders, product owners, and delivery teams to manage technical roadmaps, releases, dependencies, risks, and production issues.\nExperience managing mission-essential environments requiring high availability, scalability, resiliency, security, system performance, and continuous operational improvement.\nStrong understanding of the federal contracting environment, including experience working with CORs, Contracting Officers, program offices, and executive stakeholders.\nDemonstrated experience working within or leading delivery using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and other Agile delivery practices.\nExperience establishing or improving PMO governance, portfolio reporting, change management, quality management, and continuous improvement processes.\nExperience managing program financials, including revenue, margin, budgets, forecasts, labor utilization, and profitability.\nStrong executive communication, client relationship management, problem-solving, decision-making, and team leadership skills.\nProficiency with project and portfolio management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Health Insurance Marketplace/Healthcare.gov, or comparable large-scale federal healthcare programs.\nKnowledge of federal healthcare, health insurance, and Marketplace concepts and related business processes.\nFamiliarity with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and AEM Forms in large-scale digital service environments.\nPMP certification preferred; SAFe or related Agile certification preferred.\nExperience with federal contract types such as T&M, FFP, cost-reimbursement, IDIQ, and BPA task orders.\nFamiliarity with the FAR, federal acquisition practices, and contract compliance requirements.\nExperience supporting account growth, recompetes, capture, proposals, and client presentations.\nExperience managing subcontractors, teaming partners, and distributed delivery teams.\n\nWhat BLN24 brings to the Game:\nBLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.\nYou can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.\nFlexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.\nBLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. 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Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.\n\nJob Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced and strategic Director, Program Management to lead federal client engagement, technical and program delivery, and internal PMO operations across a portfolio of government contracts and technology initiatives.\nThis leader will serve as a senior point of accountability for assigned federal clients and programs, with significant responsibility for leading integrated technical delivery across Agile development, Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and program management. 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We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.\nYou can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.\nFlexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.\nBLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. 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