Technical Project Manager

iVision Consulting is looking for a hands-on Technical Project Manager to help grow our Federal IT Transformation work. You'll team up with our senior advisors and NIH's executive leadership on one of the bigger IT efforts in federal health: centralizing foundational IT services across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its Institutes and Centers. This is not a take-notes-and-update-the-tracker job. You'll own a technical workstream, lead working groups that span several organizations, figure out what's really going on, build the plan and drive it to done. Your work will get a lot of eyes from IT, governance, acquisition and workforce leaders, so it needs to be clear and solid. If you like untangling dependencies and getting people to the finish line together, keep reading.

Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to obtain a Public Trust. This is a hybrid position and is required to be onsite 2-3 days per week in Bethesda, Maryland.

Must have PMP certification.

What You Will Do:

In this role, you take charge of your workstream and keep the organization moving with it. You’ll set direction, bring the right people to the table, and turn complex technical work into steady, visible progress. Here’s what that looks like day to day.

• Own a consolidation workstream end to end. Take full responsibility for a workstream such as network, data center and hosting, or help desk, from discovery through cutover and handoff to the receiving organization.
• Run discovery with the Institutes and Centers. Plan and facilitate working sessions to inventory each IC's infrastructure, applications, networks, support staff and contracts. Turn what you learn into current-state documentation and a clear list of decisions needed.
• Build and own the integrated schedule. Develop detailed schedules that cover migration waves, test cycles, cutover windows, readiness gates and handoffs. Keep the baseline current and the critical path visible.
• Surface and manage technical dependencies. Identify where systems, teams and contracts depend on each other, sequence the work to match, and resolve conflicts before they put a cutover at risk.
• Review technical artifacts. Evaluate network diagrams, architecture documents, application inventories, migration plans and vendor deliverables. Flag gaps, risks and unrealistic assumptions, and push for fixes.
• Lead multi-organization working groups. Run recurring sessions with engineers, IC IT staff, and governance, acquisition and workforce stakeholders. Drive decisions, assign owners and follow up until every action closes.
• Manage risks, issues and decisions. Keep risk and issue registers and decision logs current. Escalate early, with options and a recommendation.
• Connect acquisition and workforce planning to the schedule. Help each IC map its existing contracts, end dates and staffing to the consolidation timeline so services transition without gaps.
• Deliver in an Agile rhythm. Plan in sprints, review priorities with stakeholders, and adjust deliverables quickly when client needs change.
• Produce clear, executive-ready materials. Write status briefs, decision papers and readiness assessments that leadership can act on.

What You Need :

You bring real domain expertise and the judgment to put it to work. Just as important, you know how to align engineers, leaders and stakeholders who don't report to you around a shared plan, and get the job done.

• 8+ years running technical IT projects , where you owned the schedule and the outcome, not just the status report.
• Real infrastructure background. Hands-on experience in network infrastructure, platforms, security, data center consolidation, or help desk. A purely application-development background isn't a fit for this one.
• Serious scheduling chops. You've built and run complex schedules with migration and test cycles, technical interdependencies and critical paths, and kept them current as reality changed.
• A track record of getting things done through people. You've driven execution with engineers, stakeholders and vendors who didn't report to you.
• Working Agile experience. You know how to plan and deliver in sprints. A SAFe or Scrum certificate is nice but not required; knowing how to actually work that way is.
• Comfort with technical artifacts. You can read a network diagram or a migration plan and know what's missing.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, business or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Nice To Have:

• NIH, FDA or other federal health agency experience. If you already know your ICs from your OCIOs and don't need an acronym decoder ring, that's a big plus.
• Experience with IT consolidation, shared services or centralization in a large, decentralized organization.
• Exposure to federal acquisition: helping an organization think through its contracts, vehicles and transition timing.
• Experience as a consultant working alongside government staff and multiple contractors.
• PMP or a similar certification. Helpful, but we care more about what you've delivered.

Salary:

$160,000 - $185,000 annual salary