Senior Program Manager
Summary
Leads IT modernization projects for a government contractor, focusing on PKI, compliance, and security frameworks while managing schedules and teams across multiple sites.
Place of Performance: Hybrid / Meetings at Ft Meade, MD
Days/Hours: Monday Through Friday, 8am-5pm, Weekend Federal Holidays Off
Clearance: SECRET
Education/Certification: IT Engineering BS, PMP
Years of Experience: 8+ years project management, including IT/PKI expertise
The Program Manager must possess project management skills in an IT environment
and a highly specialized blend of deep technical PKI knowledge, rigorous regulatory and
compliance expertise, and proven IT modernization leadership.
Responsibilities:
Days/Hours: Monday Through Friday, 8am-5pm, Weekend Federal Holidays Off
Clearance: SECRET
Education/Certification: IT Engineering BS, PMP
Years of Experience: 8+ years project management, including IT/PKI expertise
The Program Manager must possess project management skills in an IT environment
and a highly specialized blend of deep technical PKI knowledge, rigorous regulatory and
compliance expertise, and proven IT modernization leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes new and complex project related problems and creates innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.
- Performs day-to-day management of overall project/contract support operations, possibly involving multiple tasks and groups of personnel at multiple locations.
- Organizes, directs, and coordinates the planning and production of all activities associated with assigned project.
- Provides a project schedule to identify when each task will be completed
- Communicates clearly expectations to team members and stakeholders
- This role demands more than standard IT project coordination; the PM must actively navigate strict military security boundaries, hardware cryptographic standards, and the transition to Post-Quantum Computing.
- The PM must understand the dependencies between certificate issuance, Active Directory/Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) replication, and endpoint enrollment.
- The PM must bridge the gap between policy requirements and technical implementation and be able to translate compliance, policy, and security framework guidelines into actionable project tasks.