IT Program Manager in Atlanta, Georgia at Gunnison Consulting Group

* This position is contingent upon a future opening with Gunnison.

Salary: $165,000-$175,000

Work location: Hybrid, Atlanta, GA.

• Lead delivery of a complex federal IT portfolio that includes multiple web and data applications, shared services, and ongoing modernization efforts in a Microsoft centric environment.
• Serve as the primary interface to client leaders on program execution, priorities, risks, issues, staffing, and performance across several concurrent projects.
• Manage integrated schedules, roadmaps, and reporting across teams using modern work management and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps or similar platforms.
• Oversee governance and lifecycle compliance, ensuring project artifacts, status, and decisions are documented in line with federal IT processes and stage gate reviews.
• Coordinate closely with technical leads who are using Git based repositories (for example, GitHub or equivalent) and automated pipelines to plan releases and manage dependencies.
• Lead regular status reviews, portfolio health reviews, and executive briefings, including clear escalation and mitigation plans for schedule, quality, or technical risks.
• Support transition, surge, and continuity planning in a dynamic environment where priorities, volumes, and technologies evolve over time.
• Ensure delivery aligns with federal security, privacy, and operational requirements, working with security and compliance leads to address findings and follow up actions.

• US Citizenship required
• 10+ years of federal IT program management, portfolio management, or related leadership roles.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams across application development, integration, operations and maintenance, and modernization initiatives.
• Experience working with government customers, contract deliverables, performance metrics, executive reporting, and formal governance processes.
• Experience managing teams using agile or iterative delivery approaches, Git-based collaboration, and coordinated release planning.
• Demonstrated success managing schedules, risks, staffing, communications, and cross-functional technical teams in regulated environments.
• PMP
• ITIL Foundation (or equivalent IT service management certification)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field

Desired Qualification:

• Experience leading programs that use GitHub and/or Azure DevOps for work tracking, source control, and release coordination.
• Experience managing teams that deliver through CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and security checks, not just manual deployments.
• Experience supporting cloud migration, application modernization, or data modernization efforts in Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with federal health, public health, or HHS/CDC-adjacent IT programs.
• Experience standing up or maturing IT service management practices (for example, incident, change, and problem management) using modern ITSM tools.
• Agile certification such as CSM, PMI ACP, or SAFe.
• Cloud certifications that support large program oversight.
• Master’s degree in a related field

Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

The salary range for this position depends upon multiple factors including location, the individual's knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, and contract-specific budget constraints and organizational requirements.
Gunnison Consulting Group's total compensation package also includes bonus and profit-sharing opportunities, depending on company and employee performance. Available employee benefits include:

• 3 weeks of Personal Leave your first year
• 11 paid Holidays each year
• 5 days of Flexible Time Off each year for approved training or certifications (self-study is ineligible)
• 401(k) company match at 50% up to 10% of your salary
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Public Transportation Subsidies
• Certifications and Training Allowance - Up to $5,000/year!

Why Join Gunnison?

• Gunnison takes on ambitious projects. We target fun, challenging work that requires creative thinking and innovation.
• Quality is our top priority.
• Gunnison employee benefits meet or exceed what other companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area offer.
• There is a great sense of camaraderie at Gunnison. This is an atmosphere we will maintain as we continue to grow.
• We are growing rapidly and the opportunity for individual professional growth with Gunnison is outstanding.
• We hire for careers at Gunnison, not to fill a position.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Must be eligible for employment in the United States. We are unable to sponsor candidates at this time.
In 1994 Gunnison began serving the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, focused on tackling our customers' most ambitious technology projects. By creating a culture dedicated to enabling our customers and employees to achieve more than they ever thought they could, the company has thrived for over 25 years.