Deputy Program Manager w/active Top Secret clearance

LMI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Program Manager to lead cost, schedule, and performance execution for an enterprise IT modernization, cybersecurity, and sustainment contract across secure Government locations. The role requires disciplined program controls, proactive risk management, and transparent reporting to keep mission-critical services running.

The successful candidate will build a PMP/IMS, manage budgets and staffing, and deliver Monthly Status Reports while coordinating across enterprise architecture,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience managing complex federal programs or projects, including enterprise IT or mission-support delivery.
• Demonstrated accountability for program cost, schedule, and performance, including budget oversight, schedule baselines, forecasting, and recovery planning.
• Experience leading federal contract or task-order execution, customer reviews, staffing coordination, deliverable acceptance, and subcontractor oversight.
• Experience developing and maintaining program management plans, integrated schedules, risk registers, and recurring financial/performance reports.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams and communicate program status and risks to senior Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Experience supporting classified Government environments and meeting applicable personnel and facility security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own program execution across the base task order, ensuring scope, staffing, milestones, deliverables, and performance commitments align with the task order.
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan (PMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Lead PMRs with the COR and stakeholders; present progress, health, risks and mitigation actions.
• Prepare Monthly Status Reports addressing accomplishments, planned activities, issues, risks, financials, and funds expended.
• Oversee budgets, labor, subcontractor expenditures, forecasts, and estimates to complete; identify variances and take corrective actions.
• Coordinate task-order proposal inputs and ensure work begins after funding authorization.

Skills

Program management

Federal programs

Budget oversight

Scheduling

Risk management

Staffing coordination

Security clearances

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business / Program Management / Engineering / IT

Tools

Microsoft Project

Financial management tools

Performance dashboards

Earned value management

Job description

Overview

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

LMI is seeking a Program Manager to lead cost, schedule, and performance execution for a enterprise IT modernization, cybersecurity, operations, and sustainment contract across secure Government locations. The Program Manager will integrate task-order delivery, financial stewardship, staffing, technical execution, and quality assurance. Success requires disciplined program controls, proactive risk management, transparent reporting, and delivery of measurable outcomes without disruption to mission-critical services.

Primary duties include:

• Own program execution across the base task order, ensuring authorized scope, staffing, milestones, deliverables, and performance commitments align with the task order’s period of performance, funding, and contract requirements.
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan (PMP), integrating scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, communications, and staffing management.
• Build and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with critical milestones, dependencies, schedule drivers, and recovery actions; provide monthly baselines and updates as needed.
• Manage task-order budgets, labor and subcontractor expenditures, forecasts, funding burn rates, and estimates to complete; identify variances early and implement corrective actions to protect cost objectives.
• Coordinate task-order proposal inputs, including technical approach, staffing plans, execution schedules, and price/cost estimates; ensure work begins only after task-order issuance and required funding authorization.
• Lead recurring Program Management Reviews (PMRs) with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and stakeholders; present progress, cost and schedule health, risks, decisions, and mitigation actions.
• Prepare accurate Monthly Status Reports (MSRs) addressing accomplishments, planned activities, issues, risks, financial status, and funds expended versus remaining.
• Establish and maintain a program risk register, track technical and programmatic risks, and drive mitigation, issue escalation, change control, and decision documentation.
• Oversee quality assurance and performance measurement against contractual service-level agreements (SLAs), acceptable quality levels (AQLs), and Government surveillance expectations; drive timely remediation of deficiencies.
• Integrate delivery leads across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, data, service desk/O&M, training, and transition activities.
• Lead staffing and subcontractor coordination to maintain qualified, cleared resources and continuity of operations across geographically dispersed secure sites.
• Plan and govern transition-in, transition-out, and modernization milestones while minimizing mission disruption and maintaining service availability.

Foundational Skills

• Task-order program management; contract scope, funding, and deliverable controls.
• Integrated cost, schedule, and performance management; forecasting, variance analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Integrated Master Schedule development, dependency management, milestone tracking, and executive reporting.
• Program risk, issue, change, quality, and stakeholder management.
• Performance-based service delivery, SLAs, KPIs, AQLs, and quality assurance surveillance.
• Cross-functional leadership of enterprise IT modernization, cybersecurity, and managed operations.
• Government customer engagement, PMRs, status reporting, and clear written and verbal communication.

Location: This position is based in the Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations.

Travel: Travel to multiple program locations is expected; frequency will depend on task-order requirements.

Availability: Availability during core business hours is required; onsite presence and additional coordination may be required based on program needs.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Program Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience managing complex federal programs or projects, including enterprise IT or mission-support delivery.
• Demonstrated accountability for program cost, schedule, and performance, including budget oversight, schedule baselines, forecasting, and recovery planning.
• Experience leading federal contract or task-order execution, customer reviews, staffing coordination, deliverable acceptance, and subcontractor oversight.
• Experience developing and maintaining program management plans, integrated schedules, risk registers, and recurring financial/performance reports.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams and communicate program status and risks to senior Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Experience supporting classified Government environments and meeting applicable personnel and facility security requirements.

Nice to Have:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent program management credential.
• Experience managing single-award IDIQ contracts and firm-fixed-price task orders.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, financial management tools, performance dashboards, and earned value or comparable program controls.
• Familiarity with ITIL-based service management, NIST Risk Management Framework, Zero Trust, and secure enterprise modernization.
• Experience supporting SCIF facilities, SAP programs, transition activities, and multi-site IT operations.

TS/SCI clearance is required for this position; candidates must also be eligible for Special Access Program (SAP) access as required by the Government. LMI will consider applicants with current TS/SCI security clearance. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Target salary range: $130,000 - $210,000

Disclaimer:

The salary range displayedrepresentsthe typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries aredeterminedbyvarious factorsincluding, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.

Job Locations

US-DC-Washington, DC