Senior Technical Data Governance Program Manager

Accountabilities:

• • Serve as the primary point of contact for program and contract execution, ensuring delivery remains aligned with strategic objectives, commitments, and expected outcomes.
  • Provide senior technical leadership across data governance, architecture, engineering, integration, modernization, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives.
  • Define and maintain the program's technical strategy, architecture vision, engineering standards, data governance approach, and modernization roadmap.
  • Ensure solutions and delivery practices remain aligned with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, security, compliance, and organizational standards.
  • Lead program teams and oversee personnel, resource allocation, schedules, deliverables, performance, budgets, and operational priorities.
  • Establish strong relationships with senior customers and stakeholders, providing clear communication, executive briefings, strategic recommendations, and transparent reporting.
  • Manage development, operations, and implementation activities using Agile project management practices and promote continuous improvement across delivery teams.
  • Develop and maintain program roadmaps and Integrated Master Schedules, including milestones, dependencies, priorities, and key deliverables.
  • Facilitate program and project meetings, document decisions, track action items, and ensure accountability across workstreams.
  • Produce recurring Agile and program reporting, including sprint metrics, backlog status, burndown reporting, retrospectives, risks, dependencies, and overall delivery performance.
  • Maintain RAID logs and proactively identify technical, operational, financial, and business risks, developing and communicating effective mitigation strategies.
  • Provide analysis, research, alternative approaches, and solution recommendations to senior government and program stakeholders when required.
  • Drive operational maturity and serve as a change agent, challenging existing processes and identifying opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.

  Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in IT management, technology solution delivery, or related program leadership, with significant experience in data governance strategy, standards development, implementation, operational support, and change management.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
  • Demonstrated expertise leading teams focused on big data, cloud solution architecture, cybersecurity, data management, business intelligence, analytics, and/or related modernization capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, data platforms, enterprise technology delivery, and modernization programs.
  • Proven experience managing complex programs with multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
  • Experience developing technical strategies, architecture roadmaps, engineering standards, governance frameworks, and modernization plans.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile project management methodologies and program delivery practices.
  • Excellent customer-facing and executive communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leadership and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
  • Strong decision-making, deliverables management, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, balance competing priorities, and lead teams through organizational and technological change.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and accountability across technical and business teams.
  • U.S. citizenship is not required.
  • No current or obtainable security clearance is required for this position.

  Benefits

  • Competitive estimated salary range of $128,039–$173,229, with final compensation based on experience, geographic location, and applicable contractual considerations.
  • Fully remote work arrangement with the flexibility to work from any U.S. location.
  • Full-time schedule of approximately 40 hours per week.
  • Multiple medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.
  • Dental and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contribution options and employer matching.
  • Flexible work arrangements where applicable to support work-life balance.
  • Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
  • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, plus 10 paid holidays, prorated based on start date.
  • Paid Family Leave of up to 160 hours within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance options.
  • A comprehensive rewards package designed to support employees' health, financial security, flexibility, and overall well-being.