Program Management Lead

RiseMe; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in the Washington DC area is seeking a Program Manager to lead government IT contracts, ensuring performance aligns with price and schedule while guiding standards and goals.

You will direct multiple technical teams on complex software development projects, assess risks, and enforce change control and architectural standards across the portfolio. Strong communication with COR and customer staff is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Masters preferred for advanced program management roles.
• 10+ years of experience in .NET software delivery or development.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technical staff on complex software development projects.
• Ensure change control, configuration management and reliability across applications.
• Consult with customer and contractor personnel to align task plans with schedules and costs.
• Prepare detailed project plans with resource needs, effort and budgets at subtask level.
• Provide overall direction of program activities and interface with senior government stakeholders.

Skills

.NET software

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters preferred

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

You Are:

Function as Accenture’s authorized point of contact with the Government CO and the COR. The Program Manager shall ultimately be responsible for ensuring that the performance meets all Government contracting requirements within price and schedule. The Program Manager shall be responsible for formulating and enforcing work standards, assigning schedules, reviewing work discrepancies, and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to subordinates. In support of open communication, the Program Manager shall initiate regular meetings with the COR.

The Program Manager will lead multiple technical staff on multiple complex software development projects. Lead technical staff and assess technology solutions and recommendations.

The Work:

• Ensure effective change control and configuration management in order to establish and maintain consistency, maintainability and reliability
• Analyze complex, multi-task interrelated projects, assess risk and recommend solutions for difficult problems.
• Identify and use architectural standards and principles for software applications to promote standardization, reuse and to minimize compatibility issues across NIAID's application portfolio
• Prepare a detailed project plan to include resource identification, level of effort and budget projections at the subtask level
• Serve as the program manager typically responsible for organizing, directing, and managing all aspects of contract operational support functions involving multiple complex and inter-related project tasks that often require managing teams of contractor personnel at multiple locations. Provide overall direction of program activities
• Manage and maintain contractor interface with the senior levels of the customer’s organization
• Consult with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverables, ensuring conformance with program and project task schedules and costs and contractual obligations
• Establish and maintain technical and financial reports to show progress of projects to management and customers, organize and assign responsibilities to subordinates, oversee the successful completion of all assigned tasks, and assume the initiative and provide support to marketing personnel in identifying and acquiring potential business

Here’s What You Need:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree required; Masters preferred Program Manager
• 10+ years of experience in .NET software