Senior Federal Program Manager – IT Modernization & Cyber

LMI Consulting, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC in Washington, DC seeks a Deputy Program Manager with an active Top Secret clearance to lead cost, schedule, and performance for a federal enterprise IT modernization and cybersecurity program across secure Government locations.

The role emphasizes integrating task-order delivery, financial stewardship, staffing, technical execution, and quality assurance, with PMRs, MSRs, risk management, and cross-site coordination to ensure mission continuity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Program Management, Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience managing complex federal programs or projects.
• Experience leading federal contract or task-order execution and subcontractor oversight.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and communicate status to senior Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Experience with program management plans, integrated schedules, risk registers, and financial/performance reporting.
• Security clearance requirements: TS/SCI eligibility.
• Nice to have: PMP or equivalent certification; familiarity with MS Project and dashboards; ITIL/RO and NIST RMF concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own program execution across the base task order, ensuring authorized scope, staffing, milestones, deliverables, and performance commitments align with the task order's period of performance, funding, and contract requirements.
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan (PMP), integrating scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, communications, and staffing management.
• Build and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with critical milestones, dependencies, schedule drivers, and recovery actions; provide monthly baselines and updates as needed.
• Manage task-order budgets, labor and subcontractor expenditures, forecasts, funding burn rates, and estimates to complete; identify variances early and implement corrective actions to protect cost objectives.
• Coordinate task-order proposal inputs, including technical approach, staffing plans, execution schedules, and price/cost estimates; ensure work begins only after task-order issuance and required funding authorization.
• Lead recurring Program Management Reviews (PMRs) with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and stakeholders; present progress, cost and schedule health, risks, decisions, and mitigation actions.
• Prepare accurate Monthly Status Reports (MSRs) addressing accomplishments, planned activities, issues, risks, financial status, and funds expended versus remaining.
• Establish and maintain a program risk register, track technical and programmatic risks, and drive mitigation, issue escalation, change control, and decision documentation.
• Oversee quality assurance and performance measurement against contractual service-level agreements (SLAs), acceptable quality levels (AQLs), and Government surveillance expectations; drive timely remediation of deficiencies.
• Integrate delivery leads across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, data, service desk/O&M, training, and transition activities.
• Lead staffing and subcontractor coordination to maintain qualified, cleared resources and continuity of operations across geographically dispersed secure sites.
• Plan and govern transition-in, transition-out, and modernization milestones while minimizing mission disruption and maintaining service availability.

Skills

Program management

Cost control

Schedule mgmt

Risk management

Leadership

Government customer engagement

Communication

Staffing coordination

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/PM/Engineering/IT

Tools

Microsoft Project

Earned Value Management tools

Financial management tools

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC in Washington, DC seeks a Deputy Program Manager with an active Top Secret clearance to lead cost, schedule, and performance for a federal enterprise IT modernization and cybersecurity program across secure Government locations.

The role emphasizes integrating task-order delivery, financial stewardship, staffing, technical execution, and quality assurance, with PMRs, MSRs, risk management, and cross-site coordination to ensure mission continuity.