Project Manager

WE ARE A FEDERAL IT COMPANY ON A MISSION TO MAKE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX) THE CENTER OF EVERY GOVERNMENT SOLUTION.
TECHNOLOGY IS OUR PASSION. PEOPLE ARE OUR PURPOSE.

We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it's a state of mind.

We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Project Manager for a Full-Time position.
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale software modernization initiative spanning front-end, middleware, database, testing, security, and deployment workstreams. The Project Manager owns integrated delivery performance and provides the governance, planning, communication, and risk management needed to keep technical teams and client stakeholders aligned in an Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall environment.
Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a quantitative field required. Equivalent professional experience may substitute on a two-years-of-experience-for-one-year-of-education basis.
Required Experience & Qualifications

8+ years of progressive technical and managerial experience leading IT projects of comparable scope, size, and complexity.

Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.

Proven experience managing Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall software delivery teams and multiple technical workstreams.

Experience managing integrated schedules, cost/budget, staffing, risks/issues, dependencies, change control, and executive reporting.

Experience supporting government, regulated-enterprise, or compliance-driven technology programs.

Working familiarity with enterprise architecture governance, SDLC controls, and modernization programs involving front-end, services, databases, testing, and DevSecOps.
Key Responsibilities

Own overall program performance, delivery outcomes, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, issue, dependency, and change management.

Serve as the primary program-level point of contact for client leadership and coordinate communications across technical and business stakeholders.

Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule, milestone plan, staffing plan, RAID log, decision log, and management action tracking.

Coordinate sprint/release planning with the Scrum Master and Technical Lead while maintaining visibility into cross-team dependencies and critical-path work.

Ensure requirements, design, development, testing, security, accessibility, deployment, and transition activities are incorporated into the delivery plan.

Monitor delivery metrics, quality indicators, defect trends, risks, burn rates, and milestone readiness; escalate issues early with recovery actions.

Deliver recurring status reports, executive briefings, contractual deliverables, performance reviews, and other client reporting.

Manage staffing ramp-up, onboarding, continuity, backfill, surge capacity, and knowledge-transfer planning.

Ensure adherence to contractual, regulatory, security, accessibility, documentation, and client governance obligations.

Coordinate release/readiness decisions with technical, QA, security, operations, and client stakeholders; ensure unresolved risks are documented and owned.
Core Technical Skills

Executive stakeholder management, written and verbal communication, negotiation, and issue resolution.

Project scheduling, resource planning, budget/cost control, risk management, dependency management, and delivery metrics.

Working knowledge of Angular/TypeScript, REST services, Java/.NET or Oracle SOA, Oracle databases, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevSecOps sufficient to manage cross-functional teams.

Familiarity with Section 508/WCAG, FISMA/NIST-aligned delivery environments, and configuration/change-control processes.

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OUR PROFILE:

We are an IT company with a unique mission-to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed.Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. LEARN MORE .

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. LEARN MORE about our Benefits and Culture!

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