Head of Programme Management

Job Title: Program Manager
Seeking a seasoned Program Manager to lead the creation, authorization, and continuous governance of a FedRAMP-compliant Azure Government tenant underpinning government payment transaction services.
You will own the end-to-end program-system boundary definition, documentation, ATO readiness, and continuous monitoring-ensuring sustained compliance at FedRAMP High
The ideal candidate blends rigorous compliance leadership with strong cloud security and platform enablement skills and has demonstrated success in -system subject to federal compliance.
define milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision gates.
Establish governance forums and operating mechanisms across engineering, cloud platform, information security, risk/compliance, legal, payment operations, and 3PAOs.
Drive disciplined change control, evidence management, , and control attestation workflows aligned to FedRAMP requirements.
Manage external partners and 3PAO activities (readiness, assessments, remediation).
SSP and associated FedRAMP appendices, POA&M, policies/standards/procedures, boundary diagrams, and data flows tailored to Azure Government/GCC High constructs.
Define and maintain the system boundary and data categorization supporting payment transactions; Coordinate control implementation across all FedRAMP control families.
Conduct gap analyses against NIST SP 800-53 controls; Continuous Monitoring & Operations:
Stand up and run Continuous Monitoring, in alignment with FedRAMP High guidelines, for the Azure Government tenant: scanning cadence, patch cycles, configuration baseline monitoring, control effectiveness checks, incident handling, and change compliance.
Own POA&M lifecycle: triage findings, prioritize by risk, execute corrective actions, validate closure, reporting outstanding actions, and update artifacts.
Maintain real-time dashboards and reporting for control posture, exceptions, residual risk, and operational health across payment services and shared services.
Ensure SSP and supporting documentation are promptly updated to reflect material changes to boundary, services, configurations, or controls.
Coordinate security incident response processes with SOC teams and act as interface with the client throughout the incident lifecycle including root cause analysis and closure.

Risk Management and Issue Resolution:
Maintain a program risk register spanning control gaps, architectural changes, data flows, vendor dependencies, and operational risks in payment services.
drive compensating controls or risk acceptance decisions in partnership with risk/compliance.
Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; 7+ years of program management in regulated cloud environments; 3+ years directly owning FedRAMP programs, artifacts, and Continuous Monitoring.

• Hands-on oversight, authorship, maintenance, and response experience with SSP, POA&M, SAP/SAR; proven track record achieving/maintaining ATO for cloud services.
• Strong familiarity with Azure Government or GCC High and core security capabilities: identity/access, logging/monitoring, encryption, policy enforcement, landing zone patterns.
• Demonstrated success orchestrating cross-functional teams (security, cloud/platform, payments, operations, compliance, legal) to deliver complex regulatory programs.
• Exceptional communication skills: executive reporting, control narratives, audit responses, and stakeholder management.
• Limited travel may be required for assessments, audits, or stakeholder workshops.

Direct experience enabling government payment transactions on cloud platforms and aligning control implementations to transactional risk profiles.
Azure-focused security experience (Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Policy/Blueprints, Key Vault, Private Link, Purview).
Certifications: PMP, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, Azure Security Engineer Associate, or equivalent.