Federal IT Project Manager - Large-Scale Modernization

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale software modernization initiative spanning front-end, middleware, database, testing, security, and deployment workstreams.

The PM owns integrated delivery performance and provides governance, planning, communication, and risk management to keep technical teams and client stakeholders aligned in an Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive technical and managerial experience leading IT projects of comparable scope, size, and complexity.
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
• Proven experience managing Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall software delivery teams and multiple technical workstreams.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, cost/budget, staffing, risks/issues, dependencies, change control, and executive reporting.
• Experience supporting government, regulated-enterprise, or compliance-driven technology programs.
• Working familiarity with enterprise architecture governance, SDLC controls, and modernization programs involving front-end, services, databases, testing, and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Own overall program performance, delivery outcomes, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Serve as the primary program-level point of contact for client leadership and coordinate communications across technical and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule, milestone plan, staffing plan, RAID log, decision log, and management action tracking.
• Coordinate sprint/release planning with the Scrum Master and Technical Lead while maintaining visibility into cross-team dependencies and critical-path work.
• Ensure requirements, design, development, testing, security, accessibility, deployment, and transition activities are incorporated into the delivery plan.
• Monitor delivery metrics, quality indicators, defect trends, risks, burn rates, and milestone readiness; elevate issues early with recovery actions.
• Deliver recurring status reports, executive briefings, contractual deliverables, performance reviews, and other client reporting.
• Manage staffing ramp-up, onboarding, continuity, backfill, surge capacity, and knowledge-transfer planning.
• Ensure adherence to contractual, regulatory, security, accessibility, documentation, and client governance obligations.
• Coordinate release/readiness decisions with technical, QA, security, operations, and client stakeholders; ensure unresolved risks are documented and owned.

Skills

Executive stakeholder management

Project scheduling

Agile / Hybrid delivery

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a quantitative field

Tools

Angular/TypeScript

REST services

Java/.NET

Oracle databases

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Job description

NuAxis Innovations seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale software modernization initiative spanning front-end, middleware, database, testing, security, and deployment workstreams.

The PM owns integrated delivery performance and provides governance, planning, communication, and risk management to keep technical teams and client stakeholders aligned in an Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall environment.