Program Manager (Remote)

GovCIO is seeking a Program Manager to join the Data and Scientific Computing Service for Sustainment of GenISIS Team. The Program Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of approximately 20+ technical professionals, including software developers, system administrators, and infrastructure support personnel. This individual ensures that projects, operational activities, and technical deliverables are completed on schedule, within scope, and in accordance with established quality standards.

The successful candidate will establish clear priorities, manage competing demands, track progress, identify risks, resolve project impediments, and communicate status to leadership and stakeholders. The position requires a strong foundation in project management, the ability to work effectively with diverse technical teams, and the leadership skills necessary to promote collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple projects and operational responsibilities in a dynamic technical environment.

This role is a fully remote position within the United States with core hours of operation from Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM ET.

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource assignments.
• Break complex technical initiatives into manageable tasks with clear owners and deadlines.
• Coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and manage dependencies across development and systems administration teams.
• Monitor progress against established schedules and proactively address delays or resource conflicts.
• Ensure deliverables meet defined requirements, quality standards, and customer expectations.
• Maintain project documentation, action items, decisions, and change requests
• Establish clear expectations for task ownership, deadlines, status reporting, and deliverables.
• Conduct regular team meetings, project reviews, and individual follow-ups as appropriate.
• Identify workload imbalances and coordinate resources to address changing priorities.
• Understand the software development lifecycle, including requirements, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Understand systems administration responsibilities, including server and infrastructure management, operating systems, networking, storage, backups, security, patching, and system availability.
• Ensure development and infrastructure teams work together to resolve technical dependencies and operational issues.
• Track system support requests, operational tasks, defects, and technical debt.
• Prepare concise, accurate project status reports for leadership and stakeholders.
• Track milestones, schedule performance, resource utilization, risks, issues, and deliverable completion.
• Communicate project progress, upcoming deadlines, dependencies, and potential delays.
• Identify project risks, schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and potential delivery issues early.
• Develop mitigation plans and recommend corrective actions.
• Establish consistent project management practices, reporting standards, and documentation procedures.
• Improve task tracking, workflow management, resource allocation, and team communication.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 12 years of program management or technical program coordination experience.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating technical teams, preferably consisting of 10 or more professionals.
• Experience working with both software development and IT infrastructure or systems administration teams.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, task tracking, risk management, and status reporting.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to identify problems, make informed decisions, and drive issues to resolution.

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience

• PMP, CAPM, or comparable project management certification.
• Experience managing teams in government, research, scientific computing, enterprise IT, or other complex technical environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and traditional project management methodologies.
• Experience with infrastructure operations, Linux or Windows administration, networking, storage, cloud platforms, or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience preparing executive-level status reports, performance metrics, and project documentation.
• Familiarity with IT service management, incident management, change management, and configuration management practices.