Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpha Omega is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to support an IT portfolio within a Program Management Office (PMO) for one of their clients. The selected candidate will be responsible for leading multiple agile project teams and managing a large, complex portfolio of projects to ensure high performance and quality for clients.
Responsibilities
- Responsibilities include planning, leading, organizing, and managing multiple agile project teams
- Achieve a high level of performance and quality for clients and manage execution to meet or exceed Quality Assurance Standards
- Manage large, complex enterprise-level portfolio of projects consisting of multiple Agile teams and/or requiring integration and collaboration with other activities outside the scope of the Agile teams via Integrated Project Teams or other collaborative means
- Lead large diverse teams of technical, acquisition, financial, and program/project management staff
- Manage teams to ensure full compliance with corporate and customer systems and quality standards
- Organize, direct, and manage all aspects of federal contract operational support functions involving multiple, inter-related project tasks
- Assess issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Drive alignment between stakeholder groups and coordinate any cross-functional dependencies
- Assess the scope and characteristics of each application, and assist in client requirements while managing a team in support of implementing the application
- Demonstrated lifecycle acquisition Program Management experience in a federal environment
- Experience with requirements tools and tracking
Skills
- 7-10 years as a Project/Program Manager
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders at varied levels
- Must be able to successfully complete the DHS security and suitability background check
- Proven ability to use all Microsoft Office tools
- Excellent customer service, attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Must be able to work in a team environment
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to learn new systems and processes quickly
- Proven ability to lead teams in an agile environment
- Able to advise on how to utilize team members appropriately
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and backfill for team as able
- Bachelor's degree in business or an IT related field
- Project Management Professional (PMP) - Required
- Active or recent previous DHS experience HIGHLY desired
- Working knowledge of SAFe methodology
- Proven history of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset
Benefits
- 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
- Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
- Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
- Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
- 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
- FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
- Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit
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