Senior Product Manager

Role Description

Peraton is seeking a Product Manager, Senior Manager to serve as the accountable leader for planning, delivering, and optimizing cloud-based products and services that supports a federal civilian agency's mission to provide reliable, secure, and user-centered financial aid solutions. This role ensures that cloud capabilities, digital services, and modernization initiatives are aligned with the federal civilian agency’s strategic objectives, comply with policies, and meet all federal security, accessibility, and performance requirements.

The Product Manager, Senior Manager provides direction across the full product lifecycle, ensuring that cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, cost optimized, and responsive to the needs of students, borrowers, institutions, and internal federal civilian agency stakeholders.

This opportunity will support the modernization of a large-scale multi-tenant cloud ecosystem, providing critical enterprise-wide support for more than 40 million users in a complex stakeholder environment. This position requires senior level leadership skills combined with modern cloud and industry leading technical capabilities including product development, strict security compliance, latest technology cloud solutions, reliable application delivery with SaaS and Artificial Intelligence integrations and rapid continuous delivery.

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
• Bachelor’s degree required in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred
• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and facilitate collaboration across government and contractor organizations.
• Strong communication skills for briefing senior leadership, documenting decisions, and engaging diverse stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud-based products or platforms within federal agencies or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures, shared responsibility models, and cloud security frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other FedRAMP authorized cloud environments.
• Ability to interpret security controls, compliance requirements, and technical documentation to inform product decisions.
• Experience working within federal IT governance structures, including ATO processes, continuous monitoring, and enterprise architecture reviews.
• Understanding of the federal civilian agency mission, systems, and regulatory environment preferred.
• Certifications (one or more of the following):
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Agile certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or PMI ACP
• ITIL Foundation, Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or equivalent)
• Security or compliance certifications (e.g., Security+, CCSP), etc.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Ability to obtain agency clearance (public trust)

Preferred Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance preferred

Benefits

• Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Company Description

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.