Senior Technical Program Manager - Cloud & AI Delivery

Delaware Nation Industries; Dahlgren (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Delaware Nation Industries is seeking a Program Manager to lead a large JWAC IT Services program. You will coordinate cloud-native data engineering, AI/ML capabilities, and FinOps across secure environments, ensuring schedule, cost, and quality align with JWAC priorities.

Responsibilities include government liaison, master scheduling, risk management, and delivering design documents, security records, and user guides. The role requires TS/SCI, DoD standards, and Agile delivery experience.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret or TS/SCI security clearance.
• PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable certification.
• Experience managing AWS cloud programs involving AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, or related services.
• Experience with FinOps practices, cloud financial management, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, or AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
• Experience implementing DoD Zero Trust Architecture, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls, RMF, security authorization, or continuous monitoring.
• Experience supporting AI model hosting, agentic services, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM optimization, or MLOps.
• Experience managing programs in classified, compartmented environments or other highly regulated settings.
• Experience with Agile delivery, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience managing subcontractors and integrated contractor/Government teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary contractor point of contact for JWAC Government stakeholders.
• Lead daily program execution and align priorities, delivery, security, cost, and outcomes.
• Manage the integrated master schedule, delivery cadence, risks, issues, and government decisions.
• Direct Data Engineer personnel performing cloud-native data engineering, FinOps, Zero Trust security, and AI/ML infra activities.
• Manage staffing, onboarding, and performance across the task order.
• Coordinate requirements gathering and translate JWAC priorities into work packages and milestones.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, training, and sustainment of capabilities.
• Track progress and ensure deliverables and security records are complete and on schedule.
• Monitor program financials, labor, burn rate, funding, invoicing, and cost-to-complete projections.
• Ensure FinOps objectives are integrated into planning and execution.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Project management

Data engineering

Cloud security

FinOps

AI/ML

Program management

AWS

DevSecOps

Tools

AWS

SageMaker

OpenSearch Service

Athena

Redshift

Bedrock

Job description

Delaware Nation Industries is seeking a Program Manager to lead a large JWAC IT Services program. You will coordinate cloud-native data engineering, AI/ML capabilities, and FinOps across secure environments, ensuring schedule, cost, and quality align with JWAC priorities.

Responsibilities include government liaison, master scheduling, risk management, and delivering design documents, security records, and user guides. The role requires TS/SCI, DoD standards, and Agile delivery experience.