Senior Technical Data Governance Program Manager

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program.  The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Program Manager will lead the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team in delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO's data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate will be an experienced program leader with a long track record of successfully managing programs/projects with similar operations scope.  The Program Manager is responsible for supervising all personnel, managing senior-level customer relationships, and overseeing delivery driving process and quality improvement. The successful candidate will be a change agent, not content with the status quo.  Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are essential in this role.  The role requires the ability to successfully juggle priorities in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent work streams.  The successful candidate will thrive on the challenge and help the teams achieve a high degree of operational maturity. 

The Program Manager will execute the following responsibilities:

• Act as the single point of contact to oversee contract execution and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Provides contract coordination, performance accountability, and strategic stakeholder engagement.
• Operates with full authority to act for the Contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operations.
• Serve as the senior technical authority across all development, architecture, integration, and modernization activities. 
• Define the program’s technical strategy, architecture vision, engineering standards, and modernization roadmap. 
• Ensure technical alignment with enterprise, security, and compliance standards. 
• Manage internal and external communications strategy, reporting, and coordination.
• Responsible for the overall performance of the call order such as formulating work standards, assigning Contractor schedules and resources, reviewing performance, cost, and budget information; supervising Contractor personnel; and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to subordinates.
• Ensure desired results by determining and implementing objectives and allocating appropriate resources.
• Manage the development, operations, and implementation tasks using Agile Project Management techniques.
• Create and maintain a roadmap, aligning tasks with organizational strategy, vision, and business outcomes for the CMM effort.
• Facilitate project meetings, document meeting summaries, capture key decisions, and track action items.
• Develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to include milestones, dependencies, and other details.
• Provide biweekly Agile reports such as sprint reports, backlog reporting, sprint burndown charts, sprint retrospective reports, risk registry, etc.
• Develop and update the Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) log, and other project management related artifacts.
• Perform risk identification and mitigation. Identify and communicate technical, operational, and business risks; develop mitigation strategies.
• Provide transparent reporting, with regular updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, financials, and outcomes.
• Provide the COR and government leads with analysis and research, of alternatives, and solution and design options related to the Case Management Modernization effort upon request.
   

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years’ experience in IT Management including technology solutions delivery with emphasis on data governance strategy, standards development, implementation, operation support, and change management services to accelerate modernization efforts.
• The Task Lead must possess bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• The Program Manager must possess a Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).
• Expertise in overseeing teams dedicated to big data cloud solution architecture, cybersecurity, data management, business intelligence and analytics.
• Excellent customer-facing skills with experience briefing senior executive leadership.