Senior IT Program Manager in Washington, District of Columbia at Gunnison Consulting Group

Salary: $190,000 - $210,000/year

Work location: Federal customer locations in the National Capital Region. Remote work may be available depending on customer requirements.

• Serve as the accountable senior leader for a complex, multi-year VA enterprise modernization and systems-integration program.
• Lead end-to-end program execution, including mobilization, transition, discovery, planning, implementation, Initial Operating Capability (IOC), operational stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and lead an integrated PMO supporting program controls, integrated master scheduling, financial/resource management, risk management, deliverables governance, quality management, and executive reporting.
• Direct multiple concurrent technical and functional workstreams, ensuring dependency management, risk visibility, integrated execution, and on-time delivery.
• Partner with the Deputy Program Manager / IOC Lead to drive accelerated IOC readiness, implementation sequencing, milestone achievement, and issue resolution.
• Act as the principal customer-facing delivery executive for VA executives, program leadership, technical stakeholders, business owners, and teaming partners.
• Translate mission objectives into an executable roadmap, governance cadence, integrated delivery plan, staffing model, performance measures, and decision framework.
• Lead program-level planning and control for ITSM/ESM, asset/configuration management, service catalog, workflow automation, integrations, data management, reporting, testing, training, and organizational change.
• Oversee staffing, key-personnel readiness, surge planning, subcontractor/teaming-partner coordination, and workforce retention.
• Ensure disciplined execution of schedules, resource plans, risk/issue registers, decision logs, executive dashboards, status reports, quality plans, and deliverable calendars.
• Manage financial performance and forecast labor/subcontractor needs in partnership with contracts and finance.
• Lead executive steering committees, program reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, and integrated workstream meetings.
• Identify and mitigate risks involving readiness, data, integrations, dependencies, staffing, stakeholder alignment, and schedule compression.
• Support proposal, oral presentation, customer-engagement, and post-award transition activities as a potential named key person.

Tools & Technology Environment: Microsoft 365/SharePoint, Confluence and the OCIO ZTA Wiki, Jira; Microsoft Accessibility Checker and Adobe Acrobat for Section 508 checks.

• 15+ years of progressive experience delivering large, complex federal IT, digital transformation, enterprise-platform, ERP, or systems-integration programs.
• 10+ years in senior program or portfolio management roles with accountability for delivery, customer engagement, staffing, schedule, financial performance, risk, and subcontractor/team leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise program with multiple concurrent workstreams, significant technical interdependencies, and a large multidisciplinary workforce.
• Demonstrated experience leading a program at significant scale—preferably $100M+, 75+ FTEs, or a comparably complex portfolio of enterprise initiatives.
• Experience establishing and operating a PMO, including integrated master scheduling, program controls, risk/issue management, financial/resource management, configuration/change control, reporting, and deliverables management.
• Proven experience leading accelerated implementation, transition, modernization, or operational-readiness efforts with fixed milestones and high executive visibility.
• Experience managing complex stakeholders across business, IT, security, architecture, operations, procurement, and executive leadership.
• Experience managing prime/subcontractor teams, staffing pipelines, surge requirements, partner accountability, and cross-company delivery governance.
• Experience using Agile, hybrid Agile, and/or iterative delivery methods within formal federal program-management controls.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to lead senior customer meetings, brief executives, resolve escalated issues, and communicate delivery tradeoffs clearly.
• PMP certifications
• Current training or demonstrated experience in Agile delivery, Scrum, SAFe, or a comparable scaled/enterprise Agile approach.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of federal program-management disciplines, including performance-management concepts, integrated scheduling, risk management, and formal governance.

Clearance Requirement:

• Ability to obtain and maintain all required VA suitability, access, and system credentials.
• U.S. citizen or otherwise eligible to obtain and maintain all required VA access, suitability, and system credentials; confirm final eligibility restrictions upon RFP release.

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.