Federal Deployment & Authorization: Tech Program Lead

Sayari; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental for employees/

PTO & Sick Days

401k match up to 5%

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Sayari is hiring a Technical Program Manager to own delivery of an enterprise program deploying the Sayari Platform inside U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The program includes configuring CBP mission workflows and guiding the system through DHS security authorization, coordinating schedules, dependencies, and accountability for both.

Senior contributor based in the Washington, D.C. area; on-site 2–3 days per week during kickoff and fieldwork.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering technology programs for U.S. federal customers.
• Working knowledge of FISMA, the NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-53, and authorization package artifacts.
• Experience with federal deployment models: Gov cloud, agency tenancy, or on-prem.
• Program management fundamentals: schedules, risk, reporting.
• Technical fluency without coding: architecture, data flows, IaC, change control.
• Ability to coordinate across government stakeholders and contractors.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain DHS/CBP background clearance.

Responsibilities

• Integrated master schedule for deployment and authorization, with dependencies and government gates.
• Own scope, schedule, and milestones from award through go-live; track deliverables and reporting.
• Lead analysis of hosting and boundary options; present tradeoffs to leadership and CBP.
• Run Sayari’s side of the NIST RMF process from kickoff to ATO letter.
• Coordinate Security, Infrastructure, and FDE teams; ensure artifact content and controls.
• Manage the independent assessor; schedule readiness reviews and remediate before submission.
• Engage with CBP System Owner, ISSO/ISSM, CISO, Privacy Office, and AO throughout.
• After ATO, establish continuous monitoring, changes, and annual assessment cadence.

Skills

Federal program delivery

NIST RMF

FISMA knowledge

Security authorization artifacts

Deployment models (Gov cloud/on-prem)

Program management fundamentals

Architecture without coding

Stakeholder management

US citizenship

Tools

Security artifacts tools

Job description

Sayari is hiring a Technical Program Manager to own delivery of an enterprise program deploying the Sayari Platform inside U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The program includes configuring CBP mission workflows and guiding the system through DHS security authorization, coordinating schedules, dependencies, and accountability for both.

Senior contributor based in the Washington, D.C. area; on-site 2–3 days per week during kickoff and fieldwork.