Program Manager

Genesis is a leading business combining innovative digital transformation capabilities and enabling agile delivery skills to provide industry-leading solutions to the federal government. Genesis has an opportunity to work on one of the largest and most technologically advanced cloud, agile, and product development projects within the federal contracting space. This $300M+ contract encompasses agile transformation and integrating dozens of mission critical applications operating in a public AWS GovCloud that is managed with a hyper-converged datacenter and is protected by a world class active cyber defense solution .

Duties and Responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager responsible for the client’s successful product development support with an emphasis on agile, test-driven development, and continuous integration methodologies to assist and enhance efforts to secure new applications. The successful candidate will champion planning, coordination, and communication of the multidisciplinary/cross-functional teams responsible for delivering agile product development and defined subsystems, products and/or services. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with Government designated points-of-contact to define requirements, provide infrastructure environments, and deliver functional capabilities. The Program Manager will be responsible for all necessary services, qualified personnel, material, and methodologies as needed and approved by IRS to perform agile IT Portfolio/project, and development support services for digital/online applications.

• Manage and coordinate activities among multiple teams
• Managing multiple contract operations, ensuring quality standards and work performance on all task orders and projects; planning, organizing and overseeing work efforts; assigning resources; managing personnel; providing risk management; ensuring quality management; monitoring overall project and contract performance.
• Ensuring senior level management within the client organization, is aware of overall program status, including all relevant projects and their potential impact on higher level organizational strategic vision, this may include subject matter and unique technical knowledge.
• Ensure that software solutions developed by the team conform to the software quality standards and fit the relevant application architecture specified, including the use of tools, platforms, techniques and design patterns.
• Partner with Business Analysts, Enterprise Architecture as well as Security, Quality Assurance and Infrastructure teams.
• Efficiently deliver Portfolio management to include Portfolio initiation and long-term planning Strategy and capacity planning, Product long-term release planning
• Develop various program documents for new products or major changes to product such as requirement management plan, Program or Project Charters; Program Test Plan, etc
• Effectively manage all team member resources allocated for the project
• Ensure the certification and knowledge levels of project team personnel are always current and comprehensive and that they can provide the highest level of professional assistance to customers
• Plan the delivery of services listed in the Statement of Work (SOW)
• Develop a plan and schedule with the customer for optimum delivery of project, to ensure integration of software with existing infrastructure, systems and applications
• Maintain progress reviews of project tasks and team member assignments
• Establish/maintain project management processes to facilitate the successful execution and management of infrastructure related projects
• Assist leadership in the identification of program risk, and develop and implement effective risk management strategies
• Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems
• More often responsible to define the scope, schedule and expectations for the work they execute or lead
• Serve as the Primary Point of Contact with all stakeholders, customers, and personnel overseeing contract delivery activities.
• Serve as the Primary Point of Contact in the event of issues, questions, or concerns regarding performance for the account.
• Perform ongoing assessments of customer requirements and Develop opportunities for project teamwork relative to the following scope areas: Agile Portfolio/Program Management Operations (PMO), Systems Engineering & Architecture Solutions, Agile Delivery and DevOps, Cybersecurity, Testing, Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, and Systems Operations.
• Serve in the capacity of project manager and subject matter expert to lead customers through successfully implementing or expanding their use of the processes put in place with project implementation following the structured implementation lifecycle, recommended best practices and within the traditional project constraints related to cost, time, quality and scope.
• Responsible for the overall management of the account and ensuring objectives & deliverables are achieved in a timely manner.
• Prepares and presents reports, metrics, and account level statistics on schedule, costs, deliverables, risks, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify business prospects to meet both short term and long-term business milestone objectives and will work closely with functional and technical teams to determine customer and industry relationships required to grow market-share and scale the account.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major from an accredited college or university with 14+ years of continuous and progressive experience
• Candidate must have good communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and good oral and written presentation skills
• Leadership and technical experience should include the following: Agile Portfolio/Program Management Operations (PMO), Systems Engineering & Architecture Solutions, Agile Delivery and DevOps, Cybersecurity, Testing, Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, and Systems Operations.
• Experience as Technical Lead, Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead, Systems Engineering Manager or other leadership role in a program office or business function with demonstrated team building, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• 10+ years of Program Management, Project Management, or Account Management, experience in the Department of Treasury, with preference given to direct service within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
• Expertise surrounding IRS systems, procedures, and technical stack.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills to include organizational/time management, presentation/deliverables, and team leadership.
• Must demonstrate ability to clearly speak to senior management, stakeholders, and customers.
• Task Order writing and coordination experience, demonstrated understanding of cost estimation and basis of estimate definition using Agile Development

• Strong relationships with IRS customers and ability to gain access to Treasury decision makers.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of the IRS organization and have strong working knowledge of their priorities, goals, and investments relative to Genesis’ business practices, capabilities, and offerings.
• Agile Portfolio /Program Management Operations (PMO) experience within the IRS Digital Services playbook and domains
• Knowledge and experience with Rational Team Concert as the primary software development collaboration tool for agile planning, process definition, source control, defect tracking, and build management
• Experience managing product development and software releases in development environments with Red Hat Linux, Jenkins, JBoss, Apache Maven, Selenium

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years’ experience, or a Master’s Degree and 10 years’ experience

Required Certifications:

• PMP, CSM, ITIL, and/or SAFe (Certification would be a plus).

Other:

• Must be US Citizen
• Willingness to be on-site in New Carrollton (Lanham), Maryland
• Willingness to travel and/or telecommute on occasion depending on customer needs