Senior Federal Program Manager

Facilitate the contracting process for partner resources by briefing partners, coordinating candidate interviews, and identifying, onboarding, and acclimating partner resources to the team. Develop detailed program and project management plans to drive predictable delivery across strategic, complex, multi-workstream engagements; review defined metrics, proactively monitor and track risks, ensure timely completion and quality of deliverables, and manage stakeholder communications. Apply advanced knowledge across program and project management disciplines, share knowledge across teams, mentor colleagues to address identified skill gaps, and promote peer alignment and lessons learned across engagements. This role collaborates across Sales, solution architects, partners, delivery teams, and customers to ensure opportunities are properly qualified, structured, governed, and successfully delivered. The Senior Federal Program Manager drives deal readiness, partner coordination, risk management, financial oversight, and stakeholder alignment from pursuit through delivery. Deal Shaping & Pursuit Support Support complex Federal pursuits from qualification through contract award and project delivery. Collaborate with Sales, Architects, and Delivery teams to assess deal feasibility, delivery readiness, and execution risk. Contribute to the development of statements of work (SOWs), estimates, work breakdown structures (WBS), staffing plans, and delivery strategies. Ensure opportunities are structured for successful execution and aligned to customer outcomes. Facilitate partner identification, onboarding, contracting, and engagement activities. Establish delivery plans, resource strategies, governance structures, and success criteria for complex engagements. Manage risks, dependencies, issues, change control processes, and compliance requirements. Ensure readiness for Sales-to-Delivery handoff and successful transition into execution. Contribute to forecasting, backlog management, and portfolio health reviews. Ensure adherence to security, privacy, compliance, and Federal delivery requirements. Lead risk assessment activities and mitigation planning. Drive process consistency, documentation quality, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives. Promote reuse of tools, intellectual property, and best practices across engagements. Lead multiple concurrent, cross-functional project teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex delivery environments. Create an inclusive, respectful, and psychologically safe environment where team members can raise concerns, challenge assumptions, and ask for help. Establish clear roles, decision rights, priorities, and accountability across workstream leads, consultants, architects, partners, and customer teams. Coach and empower project leaders while providing timely direction, constructive feedback, and escalation support. Proactively monitor team capacity, workload, morale, and delivery friction, and remove organizational and operational barriers that impede success. Navigate conflict with empathy and candor, balancing individual needs, customer commitments, and business outcomes. Recognize team contributions and foster collaboration, resilience, professional growth, and shared ownership of outcomes. Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 3+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport. Able to obtain and retain a security clearance Preference for an active Top-Secret clearance Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience. 4+ years financial management experience. Reliable communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions. Proven judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to work effectively under continual deadline pressure and in ambiguous situations. Ownership mindset, business judgment, and initiative, with demonstrated ability to operate entrepreneurially within a complex organization.