Product Management, Senior Manager

Peraton

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Product Manager, Senior Manager to serve as the accountable leader for planning, delivering, and optimizing cloud-based products and services that supports a federal civilian agency's mission to provide reliable, secure, and user centered financial aid solutions. This role ensures that cloud capabilities, digital services, and modernization initiatives are aligned with the federal civilian agency’s strategic objectives, comply with policies, and meet all federal security, accessibility, and performance requirements. The Product Manager, Senior Manager provides direction across the full product lifecycle, ensuring that cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, cost optimized, and responsive to the needs of students, borrowers, institutions, and internal federal civilian agency stakeholders. This opportunity will support the modernization of a large-scale multi-tenant cloud ecosystem, providing critical enterprise-wide support for more than 40 million users in a complex stakeholder environment. This position requires senior level leadership skills combined with modern cloud and industry leading technical capabilities including product development, strict security compliance, latest technology cloud solutions, reliable application delivery with SaaS and Artificial Intelligence integrations and rapid continuous delivery.

Requirements

12 years of experience
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and facilitate collaboration across government and contractor organizations.
Strong communication skills for briefing senior leadership, documenting decisions, and engaging diverse stakeholder groups.
Demonstrated experience managing cloud-based products or platforms within federal agencies or similarly regulated environments.
Strong understanding of cloud architectures, shared responsibility models, and cloud security frameworks.
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other FedRAMP authorized cloud environments.
Ability to interpret security controls, compliance requirements, and technical documentation to inform product decisions.
Experience working within federal IT governance structures, including ATO processes, continuous monitoring, and enterprise architecture reviews.
U.S. Citizenship required
Ability to obtain agency clearance (public trust)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Agile certification
Project Management Professional (PMP) or PMI ACP
ITIL Foundation, Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or equivalent)
Security or compliance certifications (e.g., Security+, CCSP)

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred
Understanding of the federal civilian agency mission, systems, and regulatory environment preferred.
Top Secret clearance preferred

Responsibilities

Serve as the accountable leader for planning, delivering, and optimizing cloud-based products and services that supports a federal civilain agency's mission to provide reliable, secure, and user centered financial aid solutions.
Ensure that cloud capabilities, digital services, and modernization initiatives are aligned with the federal civilian agency’s strategic objectives, comply with policies, and meet all federal security, accessibility, and performance requirements.
Provide direction across the full product lifecycle, ensuring that cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, cost optimized, and responsive to the needs of students, borrowers, institutions, and internal federal civilian agency stakeholders.
Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap that supports the federal civilian agency’s cloud modernization strategy, Zero Trust objectives, and enterprise architecture standards.
Ensure product decisions align with the federal civilian agency’s governance frameworks.
Translate federal civilian agency mission needs, regulatory requirements, and user research into actionable cloud product requirements, epics, and user stories.
Prioritize the backlog using data driven methods that balance compliance, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
Oversee the full lifecycle of cloud-based products, from discovery and design through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
Ensure adherence to federal and the civilian agency’s requirements including FISMA and FedRAMP security controls, Section 508 accessibility, Privacy Act and data protection standards, records management and data retention policies, and cloud cost management and optimization guidelines.
Define and track KPIs related to cloud performance, availability, user experience, and cost.
Use analytics and operational data to drive iterative improvements and ensure service level compliance.
Lead multidisciplinary teams including cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, UX designers, data analysts, and operations personnel.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies and promote a culture of iterative delivery consistent with the federal civilian agency’s Agile and DevSecOps practices.
Serve as the primary liaison between federal civilian agency program offices, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, privacy, and external partners.
Communicate product status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to the federal civilian agency’s leadership and governance bodies.
Coordinate with cloud service providers, integrators, and third-party vendors to ensure compliance with SLAs, FedRAMP requirements, and ED contractual obligations.
Ensure alignment with federal digital service standards and OMB cloud first/cloud smart policies.
Support organizational readiness, training, and transition activities to ensure successful adoption of cloud capabilities.
Ensure new features and services integrate seamlessly with the federal civilian agency’s enterprise cloud environment and mission operations.
Support /work across multiple enterprise- wide efforts within Peraton.