IT Program Manager

Ardent Principles, Inc.

20h•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for an IT Program Manager who brings programmatic discipline, technical depth, and mission‑focused leadership to the management of complex, interconnected systems. In this role, you’ll oversee communications and beaconing solutions, cloud infrastructure, mobile device deployments, and a wide range of LAN/WAN technologies while ensuring maximum uptime, reliability, and security. We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management. Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients. Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
IT Program Management focused experience
Administering complex Sponsor unclassified systems.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with all levels of Sponsor personnel.
Working with system assessment and Sponsor's Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes.
Supporting and troubleshooting proprietary Sponsor map imagery applications.

Responsibilities

Working closely with client staff and contractor personnel, as well as external vendors and stakeholders
Being involved in the development of technical equipment specifications
Working with external vendors to develop vendor quotations
Strategically overseeing support software and hardware engineering and development efforts to maintain current and deliver new capabilities to enhance program priorities
Strategically overseeing and identifying issues or dependencies to client staff and working to resolve them as prioritized by the Government Task Manager with input from client's leadership.
Bringing programmatic discipline to the management of complex systems.
Administering communications solutions.
Integrating systems and managing technical programs.
System assessment and Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes.
Handling sensitive data, exercising discretion and sound judgment, and achieving mission outcomes.
Customizing, deploying and maintaining Android cellular telephones.
Using beaconing and tracking hardware, software, scripts, and code.
Managing cell phones, laptops, and tablet devices, all of which require configuration and maintenance while maximizing uptime and communications reliability.
Using encryption hardware and software and virtual private network (VPN) applications.
Gathering and vetting new technical requirements.
Identifying requirements and constraints pertaining to technical capabilities and solutions in support of training and educational exercises.
Providing technical leadership.
Utilizing and executing regulatory and data retention policies and modifying such policies with input and direction from key stakeholders.
Cross-skilling and backfilling for teammates.
Utilizing Microsoft cloud-based tools including Office 365, Azure, Entra, Intune, and Teams.
Using communication tools including push-to-talk technology.
Using map imagery applications.