Project Leader / Senior Government Data Analytics Program Manager

Role Description

Chameleon is seeking a Project Leader / Senior Government Data Analytics Program Manager to serve as our accountable executive interface to the Florida Office of the Chief Inspector General (OCIG). In this role, you will lead a highly specialized, eight-person expert team transforming an advanced data analytics Proof of Concept (POC) into a secure, multi-agency, enterprise-ready Decision Intelligence Platform.

This platform will unify statewide oversight, tracking abnormal spending patterns, contract vulnerabilities, and fraud/waste/abuse risks across up to 35 state agencies. Because this is a high-visibility, firm-fixed-price (FFP) state government contract, you will maintain absolute accountability for the sequential delivery and formal executive sign-off of 15 critical project deliverables.

Principal Responsibilities

• Executive Liaison: Serve as Chameleon’s primary executive interface and trusted advisor to the OCIG and Chief Inspector General (CIG).
• Deliverable Governance: Direct the integrated master schedule across all 15 sequential project deliverables. Ensure no phase advances until all rigorous predecessor acceptance criteria are met and approved in writing.
• Milestone Management: Maintain total readiness for compliance audits, gathering technical acceptance evidence, tracking risks/dependencies, and compiling formal CIG approval packages.
• Remediation & QA Direction: Lead immediate technical corrective actions and pivot strategies if independent state testing or validation identifies platform deficiencies.
• Executive Briefings: Personally author and present high-level decision papers, executive briefings, and data-driven recommendations to state leadership and oversight bodies.
• Scope & Fiscal Control: Protect project boundaries against the FFP baseline; proactively identify, negotiate, and escalate change order requirements before out-of-scope work begins.
• Onboarding Oversight: Drive the strategic deployment and onboarding roadmap for the initial wave of 8–10 state agencies, successfully resolving cross-agency data dependencies.
• Closeout Delivery: Own the structural compilation of the final project closure dossiers, including the Final Executive Report and the multi-year Enterprise Expansion Roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience Baseline: 12+ years of comprehensive technology, data analytics, modernization, or enterprise information systems experience.
• Leadership Depth: 8+ years of dedicated project/program management experience, with proven success leading multidisciplinary teams (data engineers, cloud architects, data scientists, BI developers, and security leads).
• Government Authority: Documented history as the primary, personally accountable manager for at least one large-scale federal, state, military, or local government technology or data program.
• Executive Presence: Documented, verifiable experience making evidence-based recommendations directly to senior executives, agency leadership, boards, legislative stakeholders, or Inspectors General.
• Technical Domain Context: Hands-on program management experience involving at least one of the following: enterprise analytics, data modernization, fraud/waste/abuse analytics, financial/procurement system integrations, or modernization of oversight/audit functions.
• Methodology: Expert running rigid milestone-driven, firm-fixed-price (FFP) government deliveries.
• Credentials: PMP certification is strongly preferred; PgMP is highly valuable.
• Compliance & Vetting: Must be a U.S.-based citizen or resident. Must be able to successfully clear an FDLE Level II background screening (including fingerprinting) within 5 business days of award.

Strong Preferences

• Prior experience working inside or directly consulting for a State Government Inspector General, Auditor General, Comptroller, Finance, or Procurement agency.
• Direct experience navigating Florida state government agency structures.
• Direct program oversight over Azure Government or scalable cloud data platform deployments.
• Background supporting Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V / ITV), external government audits, or rigorous user acceptance testing (UAT).
• History managing state/federal programs valued at $1M+.
• Working familiarity with NIST standards (SP 800-53/171), FedRAMP High, CJIS, or HIPAA data protection rules.

MANDATORY RESUME FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

The State of Florida strictly evaluates and verifies all named staff experience for this contract. Generic resumes that only list generic tech stacks will be automatically rejected.

To be considered for this role, your resume must explicitly detail the following metadata for your past contract positions:

• The Government Customer: Explicitly name the agency (Federal, State, Military, or Local).
• Program Scale & Complexity: Specify the dollar value of the program, the total team size you managed, and the exact project duration.
• Management Authority: Clearly state your personal level of accountability regarding budget, schedule, and deliverables.
• Target Audience: Identify the specific executive/government decision-makers who received your evidence-based recommendations (e.g., “Presented monthly analytics findings to the Agency CIO and Inspector General”).
• Measurable Results: Include quantifiable metrics of successful delivery, production deployment status, or formal system acceptances achieved.

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