Director, Project Management (Remote US)

ICF•Reston, VA

19h•Remote

About The Position

ICF is seeking a Director, Project Management to lead integrated delivery for a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) modernization effort. The program supports cloud data modernization, enterprise analytics, and AI operations within FDIC’s governance and security environment. The role provides the management structure connecting workstreams, technical teams, FDIC stakeholders, and delivery commitments. The position is remote and requires the candidate to reside in the U.S.; all work must be performed in the U.S. The Director plans and sequences work, manages backlogs and sprint execution, monitors cost and schedule, controls risks and changes, and ensures work products are complete, traceable, secure, and ready for FDIC review and acceptance. The role also coordinates security and compliance activities and leads transition and continuity planning to support uninterrupted operations.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience managing complex technology programs or projects with multiple technical workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
Experience applying Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and work tracking through GitHub, Jira, or comparable tools.
Experience managing budgets, burn rates, schedules, risks, issues, action items, status reporting, and cost or schedule corrective actions.
Experience coordinating cloud, data, application, security, infrastructure, or analytics teams and translating technical issues and trade-offs for business and government stakeholders.
Experience managing requirements, deliverables, change control, quality assurance, acceptance criteria, and version-controlled project documentation.
Ability to satisfy FDIC personnel eligibility and background-investigation requirements.
U.S. citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
Must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and perform all work in the U.S.
Ability to communicate status, risks, decisions, and recommendations concisely to executive and working-level audiences; organize complex work with clear ownership, sequencing, and follow-through; and exercise sound judgment.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting federal or regulated technology modernization programs, particularly cloud, data management, analytics, AI, or enterprise platform initiatives.
Experience with Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure AI services, or comparable cloud technologies.
Experience supporting FDIC or similar governance bodies, including enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data governance, change control, A&A, ATO, or configuration management processes.
Experience developing project, risk, requirements, security, architecture, data, testing, UAT, and transition documentation.
Experience using GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, Jira, Power BI, Azure Monitor, or comparable delivery and reporting tools.
Experience establishing KPIs, agile metrics, quality measures, stakeholder feedback loops, and QASP-style performance reporting.
Experience leading transition-in or transition-out activities, incumbent knowledge transfer, operational readiness, or continuity planning.
PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable project or Agile certification.

Responsibilities

Lead program planning and execution across concurrent data, cloud, analytics, AI, and operations workstreams; maintain an integrated project plan and coordinate dependencies, milestones, and priorities.
Establish sprint plans, manage backlog grooming and execution, and coordinate daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demonstrations.
Manage the product backlog, requirements, code, artifacts, bug fixes, requirements baselines, system features, and business rules through FDIC GitHub Enterprise or approved tools.
Manage team and individual project budgets, track actual and projected costs and burn rate, and provide cost projections and corrective actions.
Prepare weekly status reports on cost, activities, schedule, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items; brief FDIC stakeholders.
Coordinate architecture, infrastructure, data, security, privacy, operations, and business stakeholder reviews, ensuring decisions address cost, security, operations, technical standards, and mission requirements.
Manage requirements, risk, issue, change, and configuration processes, including FDIC Change Control Board and ServiceNow processes for production changes and configuration items.
Ensure deliverables and sprint outcomes meet acceptance criteria; coordinate quality reviews, continuous testing and validation, stakeholder feedback, and resolution of rework before submission.
Oversee security and compliance coordination, including A&A and ATO support, NIST 800-53 controls, POA&Ms, Azure policy findings, hardening guides, Security Impact Assessments, and annual security assessments.
Lead transition and continuity activities, including knowledge transfer, resource coordination, documentation handoff, communication channels, risk mitigation, and operational readiness.
Lead and communicate with clarity and accountability across technical teams, government stakeholders, and partner organizations; organize complex work into actionable plans and balance scope, schedule, cost, quality, security, and operational risk.