Director, Project Management (Remote US)

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International is seeking a Director, Project Management to lead a modernization program for the FDIC, covering cloud data modernization, analytics, and AI operations. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage budgets, and deliver against milestones in a security-focused environment.

The role requires experience with Agile delivery, government programs, and strong stakeholder communication. Based in Reston, VA, the position is full-time and performs on-site work in a regulated

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex technology programs with multiple workstreams.
• Proven Agile delivery experience including sprint planning and backlogs.
• Budget, risks, and status reporting for large programs.
• Ability to translate technical issues for government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead program planning and execution across data, cloud, analytics, and AI workstreams.
• Establish sprint plans, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups.
• Manage product backlog, requirements, and configuration baselines.
• Monitor budgets, burn rate, and cost projections with corrective actions.
• Prepare weekly status reports for FDIC stakeholders.

Skills

Agile delivery

GitHub Enterprise

Jira

Stakeholder management

Budget & cost tracking

Coordinating cross-functional teams

Status reporting

Security & compliance awareness

Education

PMP / Scrum Master / SAFe / ITIL

Tools

ServiceNow

Power BI

Azure Monitor

Azure data/services

Job description

The Work

ICF is seeking a Directer, Project Management to lead integrated delivery for a modernization effort for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC). The program supports cloud data modernization, enterprise analytics and AI operations within FDIC's governance and security environment.

What You Will Do

• Lead program planning and execution across concurrent data, cloud, analytics, AI, and operations workstreams; maintain an integrated project plan and coordinate dependencies, milestones, and priorities.
• Establish sprint plans with epics, backlog items, success criteria, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demonstrations; sequence work to support approved priorities and release objectives.
• Manage the product backlog, requirements, code, artifacts, bug fixes, requirements baselines, system features, and business rules through FDIC GitHub Enterprise or approved tools.
• Manage team and individual project budgets, track actual and projected costs, monitor burn rate, and provide cost projections and timely corrective actions.
• Prepare weekly status reports covering cost, current and planned activities, schedule, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items; provide clear briefings to FDIC stakeholders.
• Coordinate architecture, infrastructure, data, security, privacy, operations, and business stakeholder reviews; ensure decisions address cost, security, operations, technical standards, and mission requirements.
• Manage requirements, risk, issue, change, and configuration processes, including FDIC Change Control Board and ServiceNow processes for production changes and configuration items.
• Ensure deliverables and sprint outcomes meet acceptance criteria; coordinate quality reviews, continuous testing and validation, stakeholder feedback, and resolution of rework before submission.
• Oversee security and compliance coordination, including A&A and ATO support, NIST 800-53 controls, POA&Ms, Azure policy findings, hardening guides, Security Impact Assessments, and annual security assessments.
• Lead transition and continuity activities, including knowledge transfer, resource coordination, documentation handoff, communication channels, risk mitigation, and readiness for uninterrupted operations.

What You Will Bring With You

• Demonstrated experience managing complex technology programs or projects with multiple technical workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Experience applying Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and work tracking through GitHub, Jira, or comparable tools.
• Experience managing budgets, burn rates, schedules, risks, issues, action items, status reporting, and cost or schedule corrective actions.
• Experience coordinating cloud, data, application, security, infrastructure, or analytics teams and translating technical issues and trade‑offs for business and government stakeholders.
• Experience managing requirements, deliverables, change control, quality assurance, acceptance criteria, and version‑controlled project documentation.
• Ability to satisfy FDIC personnel eligibility and background‑investigation requirements
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.

What we would like you to bring

• Experience supporting federal or regulated technology modernization programs, particularly cloud, data management, analytics, AI, or enterprise platform initiatives.
• Experience with Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure AI services, or comparable cloud technologies.
• Experience supporting FDIC or similar governance bodies, including enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data governance, change control, A&A, ATO, or configuration management processes.
• Experience developing project, risk, requirements, security, architecture, data, testing, UAT, and transition documentation.
• Experience using GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, Jira, Power BI, Azure Monitor, or comparable delivery and reporting tools.
• Experience establishing KPIs, agile metrics, quality measures, stakeholder feedback loops, and QASP‑style performance reporting.
• Experience leading transition‑in or transition‑out activities, incumbent knowledge transfer, operational readiness, or continuity planning.
• PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable project or Agile certification.

Professional Skills

• Lead with clarity and accountability across technical te