Senior Delivery Manager

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at

We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team and support our client. The ideal candidate is an experienced Agile delivery leader with a demonstrated ability to manage concurrent application delivery efforts within a complex, multi-system environment. This individual will champion Agile practices, lead cross-functional coordination, remove delivery impediments, and provide delivery oversight across an assigned portfolio of BAS systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Champion Agile methodologies across assigned BAS systems, ensuring the consistent application of sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and release cadence.

• Remove impediments for development and operations teams, escalating to the Program Manager when resolution requires contract-level intervention.

• Coordinate release schedules across assigned systems, manage dependencies, and minimize delivery conflicts.

• Manage non-key Technical Leads and Operations Leads for individual systems within the assigned portfolio subset.

• Ensure cross-functional collaboration among development, testing, security, and operations teams for all active work assignments.

• Maintain a current, prioritized backlog for all assigned systems; review the backlog with the Program Manager at least monthly and update it weekly.

• Monitor and report delivery performance, resource utilization, and risks for assigned systems as part of the monthly status-reporting cycle.

• Support onboarding of new applications into the assigned portfolio subset, ensuring rapid, stable integration without degrading existing service levels.

Work Experience and Job Skills

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in IT project management, product management, or a closely related discipline.

• Minimum of 4 years of direct experience managing Agile software development teams in a multi-system portfolio environment.

• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams supporting concurrent application delivery efforts.

• Experience coordinating Agile ceremonies, release planning, dependency management, risk management, and delivery reporting.

• Experience managing technical and operational leads and aligning resources across multiple systems or workstreams.

• Experience supporting federal IT programs is preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree is required. Preferred fields of study include Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Operations Management, or a related field.

• MBA or Master's degree in a relevant field of study is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations

• Agile, Scrum, project management, or product management certification is preferred (for example, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe, or equivalent).

Communication Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present delivery status, risks, priorities, and performance data to technical teams, program leadership, and client stakeholders.

• Ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions, resolve conflicts, and communicate clearly in a highly confidential environment.

• Ability to write clear, concise, and accurate reports, status updates, and other program documentation.

Clearance Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required.

Travel

• Travel may be required based on client and program needs.

Environmental Requirements

• Mainly a routine office environment.

• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.