Senior Federal PMO Lead — Agile & DoD Programs

Pole Star Defense; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance for employees and/or

Dental and Vision insurance

Life and Disability insurance

20 days annual leave

5 days Wellbeing leave

401k matching

Gym membership subsidy

PTO for Volunteer Day

Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus

Job summary

Pole Star Defense is seeking a Senior Project Manager to independently execute federal programs within our PMO. This role blends federal compliance (ATO, government reporting) with Agile execution (sprint cadence, backlog management) to mature our PMO processes.

The ideal candidate has proven federal contracting experience, strong Agile background, and excels at managing internal and external stakeholder relationships. This is a full-time role located in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• PMP or PgMP certification.
• Agile certification such as CSM, PSM, CSPO, or related certification.

Responsibilities

• Own program delivery, milestone tracking, critical path analysis, and contract timelines.
• Maintain the risk register to proactively resolve issues and shield delivery teams from requirements volatility
• Monitor program budgets, burn rates, and resource allocation in coordination with Finance.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple internal departments without direct organizational authority
• Backlog, Priorities, and Agile Delivery—shape and sequence the backlog to align with contract commitments.
• Partner with product and engineering to translate customer intent into prioritized user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies to provide engineering teams with contract and customer context
• Leverage velocity and throughput metrics to predict timelines and inform customer reporting.
• Government Customer Interface—act as PMO point of contact for status updates and risk disclosures.
• Manage the Authority to Operate (ATO) lifecycle with InfoSec and the customer’s ISSO.
• Translate incoming customer requests into internal work packages and prevent unauthorized scope creep.
• PMO Standards and Function Building—author and improve scalable PMO standards and templates.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, and compliance docs under version control.
• Contribute program and past-performance content to proposals and RFP responses.

Skills

PM experience

Govt contracts

Agile/Scrum

End-to-end ownership

Federal compliance

Cross-functional leadership

PM tools (Jira/Confluence/MS Project)

Education

Bachelor’s in related field

PMP / PgMP

Agile cert (CSM/PSM/CSPO)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

AWS / FedRAMP

Job description

Pole Star Defense is seeking a Senior Project Manager to independently execute federal programs within our PMO. This role blends federal compliance (ATO, government reporting) with Agile execution (sprint cadence, backlog management) to mature our PMO processes.

The ideal candidate has proven federal contracting experience, strong Agile background, and excels at managing internal and external stakeholder relationships. This is a full-time role located in the United States.