Data Programs Lead: Aligning Delivery Across Data & AI

Peregrine Advisors; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OPEN Data Jobs connects AI, data, and software professionals with critical roles, primarily in the federal sector. The work described involves turning a collection of technical projects into a coordinated program that delivers strategic outcomes across data platforms, analytics, governance, software, and AI initiatives.

Data Program Managers establish operating rhythms, maintain an integrated view of scope and commitments, surface problems with options, and provide executives and delivery teams

Qualifications

• Working foundation in program or project delivery across multiple teams.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive decisions.
• Technical fluency in data, analytics, software, cloud, or artificial intelligence.
• Ability to establish meaningful performance measures and connect project outputs to program benefits.
• Clear written and oral communication, disciplined documentation, and sound judgment in regulated or mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Integrated program plans that connect workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, and decision points.
• Governance and delivery rhythms that keep owners, risks, issues, and commitments visible.
• Benefits and outcome measures that show whether the program is producing mission value, not merely completing activity.
• Risk, issue, and dependency practices that drive timely mitigation and precise escalation.
• Executive reporting, working-level coordination, and durable documentation that keep a complex program coherent through change.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder communication

Technical fluency in data/AI

Job description

OPEN Data Jobs connects AI, data, and software professionals with critical roles, primarily in the federal sector. The work described involves turning a collection of technical projects into a coordinated program that delivers strategic outcomes across data platforms, analytics, governance, software, and AI initiatives.

Data Program Managers establish operating rhythms, maintain an integrated view of scope and commitments, surface problems with options, and provide executives and delivery teams