Remote Program Director - Data & Cloud Modernization

ICF; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Director, Project Management to lead the FDIC modernization effort, coordinating cloud data modernization, enterprise analytics, and AI operations within FDIC's governance and security environment. You will connect workstreams, technical teams, FDIC stakeholders, and delivery commitments from a remote setup.

Responsibilities include planning, backlog management, sprint execution, cost and schedule monitoring, risk and change control, and ensuring deliverables meet acceptance

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex technology programs with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Experience applying Agile delivery practices: sprint planning, backlog mgmt, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives.
• Experience managing budgets, burn rates, schedules, risks, issues and cost/schedule actions.
• Ability to coordinate cloud, data, security, infra, or analytics teams and translate technical issues for business/government.
• Experience managing requirements, deliverables, change control, QA, acceptance criteria, and doc.
• Must satisfy FDIC personnel eligibility and background investigations.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for federal contracting.
• Must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and perform all work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• 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 demos; sequence work to support priorities.
• Manage the product backlog, requirements, code, artifacts, bug fixes, 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; brief FDIC stakeholders.
• Coordinate architecture, infrastructure, data, security, privacy, operations, and business reviews; ensure decisions address cost, security, operations, standards, and mission needs.
• Manage requirements, risk, issue, change, and configuration processes, including FDIC Change Control Board and ServiceNow for production changes.
• Ensure deliverables and sprint outcomes meet acceptance criteria; coordinate quality reviews, testing, stakeholder feedback, and rework resolution.
• Oversee security and compliance coordination (A&A, ATO, NIST controls, Azure policies, security assessments).
• Lead transition and continuity activities, knowledge transfer, resource coordination, and readiness for uninterrupted operations.

Skills

Program management

Agile delivery

Budget management

Stakeholder coordination

Cloud analytics

Security compliance

FDIC requirements

US work eligibility

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

ServiceNow

Jira

Power BI

Azure Monitor

Job description

ICF is seeking a Director, Project Management to lead the FDIC modernization effort, coordinating cloud data modernization, enterprise analytics, and AI operations within FDIC's governance and security environment. You will connect workstreams, technical teams, FDIC stakeholders, and delivery commitments from a remote setup.

Responsibilities include planning, backlog management, sprint execution, cost and schedule monitoring, risk and change control, and ensuring deliverables meet acceptance