Project Manager – Senior

North Point Technology; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

North Point Technology is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the modernization and sustainment of a federal public-facing website. This role involves user acceptance testing, managing project schedules, and ensuring compliance with federal standards.

The ideal candidate must have at least 6 years of direct IT project management experience, particularly in website development, and possess strong communication skills. Remote or hybrid candidates will be considered, particularly those in the Washington, DC metro area.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of IT project management experience specifically in website development.
• Ability to manage schedule, scope, and risk on complex, deadline-driven efforts.
• Fluency in English (speak, read, write) with experience briefing senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own the master schedule and drive on-time delivery against go-live dates.
• Serve as primary client and stakeholder interface throughout the engagement.
• Lead the lifecycle: discovery, design, migration, user acceptance testing, cutover.

Skills

IT project management

Strategic thinking

Conflict management

Time management

Oral and written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Azure Government

WordPress

Job description

Position / LCAT: Project Manager Level: Senior / Lead Lead Designation: Project Manager Location: Remote / Hybrid (Washington, DC metro preferred)

Role Summary

Leads end-to-end delivery of a federal public-facing website modernization and sustainment program, owning schedule, scope, risk, and quality from discovery and design through build, migration, testing, and controlled go-live, and into multi-year operations and sustainment. Serves as the primary client interface, drives delivery against fixed go-live dates, provides regular status reporting, and directs the technical staff and subcontractors required to deliver a secure, accessible, compliant, cloud-hosted enterprise web platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the master schedule, critical path, staffing assumptions, and dependencies, and drive on-time delivery against fixed go-live dates
• Serve as primary client and stakeholder interface and maintain a collaborative working relationship throughout the engagement
• Deliver and maintain the project plan and a comprehensive project timeline
• Produce weekly status reports covering accomplishments, upcoming work, risks and issues, and items requiring client decision
• Lead the lifecycle: discovery, design and mockup approval, build, legacy content migration, user acceptance testing, and controlled production cutover with minimal downtime
• Coordinate security accreditation activities (RMF/ATO) with client security personnel
• Oversee Section 508, 21st Century IDEA, and WCAG accessibility compliance verification and remediation prior to go-live
• Manage subcontractor and vendor performance, including cloud and web delivery partners and independent third-party test providers
• Manage operations and sustainment, including defined operational service levels, high-availability uptime, security monitoring, administrator training, and documentation
• Manage scope, risk, quality, and staffing and retention across the period of performance

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of hands‑on IT project management experience specifically overseeing website development projects. Hard requirement; general IT or PMO experience without direct website‑development project leadership does not qualify
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute to a defined plan, managing schedule, scope, and risk on technically complex, deadline‑driven efforts
• Demonstrated strengths in strategic thinking, multitasking, conflict management, and time management
• Strong oral and written communication skills, fluent in English (speak, read, write), with experience interacting with and briefing senior leaders
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery teams and subcontractors to defined milestones and quality standards
• U.S. citizenship and ability to pass a federal background investigation (Public Trust / suitability)

Preferred Qualifications

• Desired Experience: Prior federal government project experience
• Desired Experience: Delivery experience in Microsoft Azure Government or another FedRAMP‑authorized cloud environment
• Desired Experience: WordPress or comparable enterprise CMS delivery; Section 508 / WCAG / 21st Century IDEA accessibility compliance
• Desired Experience: RMF/ATO coordination (SSP, POA&M, working with an ISSO and Authorizing Official) and FIPS-199 Moderate systems
• Desired Experience: Delivering firm‑fixed‑price, fixed‑deadline web builds on schedule; managing subcontractors, vendors, and independent test providers
• Desired Experience: AI/chatbot integration, legacy content migration, and enterprise identity integration (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID)
• Desired Certification: PMP or equivalent project management certification
• Desired Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, IT management, or a related field from an accredited institution

For positions requiring a federal security clearance, your clearance level must be clearly identified on your resume.