IT Consultant

Position Summary

The Senior IT Project Manager leads large-scale enterprise technology programs within secure, regulated, and compliance-driven environments. This role is responsible for end-to-end program delivery, governance, risk management, security alignment, and executive stakeholder engagement while ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Program & Project Leadership

• Lead large-scale enterprise technology programs consisting of multiple integrated projects and workstreams.
• Develop and manage program roadmaps, project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and dependencies.
• Drive delivery of strategic technology initiatives while ensuring alignment with business objectives and organizational priorities.
• Establish and maintain program governance structures, steering committees, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership and direction to project managers, business analysts, technical leads, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Establish and enforce project governance frameworks, controls, and delivery standards.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, security mandates, and audit obligations.
• Maintain program-level RAID logs and drive proactive risk mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate executive governance reviews, stage-gate approvals, and compliance assessments.
• Develop and monitor KPIs, project health metrics, and control effectiveness measures.
• Support internal and external audits while ensuring proper documentation and control evidence is maintained.

Secure & Enclave Environment Management

• Lead projects within Federal Enclave, secure networks, controlled environments, or highly regulated industries.
• Coordinate activities requiring adherence to security protocols, data protection requirements, and access controls.
• Ensure project teams follow established information security, cybersecurity, and compliance standards.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and compliance teams to evaluate risks and implement remediation activities.
• Manage technology initiatives involving protected, confidential, or sensitive information.

Stakeholder & Executive Management

• Serve as the primary liaison between business leadership, IT leadership, cybersecurity teams, and external partners.
• Deliver executive-level program status reporting, dashboard updates, and strategic recommendations.
• Facilitate decision-making and issue resolution among senior stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships across business and technical organizations.
• Present program progress, risks, dependencies, and financial health to executive sponsors.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Develop and manage program budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
• Monitor financial performance and proactively address budget variances.
• Manage vendor relationships, statements of work, contract deliverables, and service performance.
• Ensure third-party partners comply with security, governance, and contractual requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT project and program management experience.
• 5+ years managing large-scale enterprise programs with budgets exceeding multiple million dollars.
• Demonstrated experience working within Federal Enclave, government, defense, utility, energy, healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, controls, compliance, and audit practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, and business functions.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership and technical teams.
• Experience utilizing project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery models.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.
• PgMP (Program Management Professional) certification.
• PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP, FISMA, ISO 27001, SOC, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience leading ERP, Cloud, Infrastructure Modernization, Cybersecurity, or Digital Transformation programs.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Experience working with PMOs, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Internal Audit organizations. Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

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