Sr. Program Director III (6783)

MetroStar•Reston, VA

13d•$184,000 - $248,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Sr. Program Director III, you’ll lead programs in DevSecOps, Cloud, and Cyber within our National Security business unit. Our National Security business unit is responsible for enabling transformative improvements and IT modernization for our client’s mission-critical solutions. We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI and the ability to obtain CI poly
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management or Engineering, or other comparable degree or experience
A minimum of ten (10) years of delivery leadership of complex federal programs and at least two (2) years of specialized experience in leading IT DevSecOps projects and managing large Agile teams
Experience supporting the Intelligence Community and delivering a full range of IT support services, including development and modernization using Human-Centered Design (HCD), Agile, and DevSecOps; and operations and maintenance for mission applications (on-premises and cloud environments)
Experience establishing and providing clear communication to executive leadership including reporting, forecasting, strategic roadmaps, risk assessments, and stakeholder expectation management
Experience monitoring and managing the financials and staffing of large IT programs
Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as experience demonstrating the ability to determine and implement improvements for programs to achieve quality, and customer excellence

Responsibilities

Be a technical problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolving issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment
Work closely with the development teams (SDEs, Data Scientists, Product Managers, UX Designers) and play a leadership role in product architecture and design
Develop, cultivate, and manage client relationships; maintain lines of communication and delivery with government contracts and contracts technical representative staff
Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work; leverage organization resources to improve capacity for project work; and interview, select, develop, and evaluate team members
Define and manage project management processes and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for technical project management
Team build and promote the empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team
Manage project financials and supporting contract documents ensuring a healthy project gross margin, appropriate staff utilization, funding and contracts paperwork, invoicing and payments, budge to actual variances, financial and staffing projections, estimate to complete and estimate at completion, project management review reporting, and, if appropriate, earned-value reporting
Prioritize, lead, and manage tasking of project team and completion of assignments
Evaluate, prioritize, and manage impacts of project scope changes
Collect and translate business requirements into technical requirements
Escalate project risks to the appropriate MetroStar and client stakeholders