Senior Delivery Manager

Unissant • Bethesda, MD

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com . We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team and support our client. The ideal candidate is an experienced Agile delivery leader with a demonstrated ability to manage concurrent application delivery efforts within a complex, multi-system environment. This individual will champion Agile practices, lead cross-functional coordination, remove delivery impediments, and provide delivery oversight across an assigned portfolio of BAS systems.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in IT project management, product management, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum of 4 years of direct experience managing Agile software development teams in a multi-system portfolio environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams supporting concurrent application delivery efforts.
• Experience coordinating Agile ceremonies, release planning, dependency management, risk management, and delivery reporting.
• Experience managing technical and operational leads and aligning resources across multiple systems or workstreams.
• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present delivery status, risks, priorities, and performance data to technical teams, program leadership, and client stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions, resolve conflicts, and communicate clearly in a highly confidential environment.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and accurate reports, status updates, and other program documentation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting federal IT programs is preferred.
• MBA or Master's degree in a relevant field of study is preferred.
• Agile, Scrum, project management, or product management certification is preferred (for example, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Champion Agile methodologies across assigned BAS systems, ensuring the consistent application of sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and release cadence.
• Remove impediments for development and operations teams, escalating to the Program Manager when resolution requires contract-level intervention.
• Coordinate release schedules across assigned systems, manage dependencies, and minimize delivery conflicts.
• Manage non-key Technical Leads and Operations Leads for individual systems within the assigned portfolio subset.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration among development, testing, security, and operations teams for all active work assignments.
• Maintain a current, prioritized backlog for all assigned systems; review the backlog with the Program Manager at least monthly and update it weekly.
• Monitor and report delivery performance, resource utilization, and risks for assigned systems as part of the monthly status-reporting cycle.
• Support onboarding of new applications into the assigned portfolio subset, ensuring rapid, stable integration without degrading existing service levels.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior