[Hiring] Cloud & Azure Program Management Lead @Akima, LLC

Role Description

The Cloud & Azure Program Management Lead serves as the technical and programmatic lead for a multi-disciplinary engineering team operating within a USMC enterprise environment. This role blends systems engineering expertise, program management leadership, agile delivery practices, and modern cloud engineering experience – specifically using Microsoft Azure. The PAS Engineer ensures alignment of technical work with government sponsor priorities while delivering secure, scalable, and resilient solutions compatible with USMC enterprise systems, cybersecurity requirements, and mission objectives.

• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary engineering team operating within a USMC enterprise environment, ensuring alignment with Marine Corps policies, technical standards, cybersecurity requirements, and mission objectives.
• Architect, design, and oversee the implementation of solutions using Microsoft Azure services while ensuring interoperability with USMC enterprise systems, networks, identity services, and data management frameworks.
• Manage program scope, schedules, risks, and resources across multiple engineering workstreams, maintaining compliance with government sponsor expectations, USMC governance processes, and formal reporting requirements.
• Establish and drive agile workflows—including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, iterative development, and continuous delivery—tailored for government engineering environments and compatible with USMC acquisition and sustainment practices.
• Guide systems engineering activities such as requirements development, interface definition, technical integration, verification, and documentation, ensuring compatibility with USMC enterprise architecture and mission support systems.
• Facilitate technical reviews, design sessions, demos, and cross-team collaboration to ensure coordinated engineering outputs and successful delivery of integrated solutions across government and contractor teams.
• Communicate project status, technical risks, cloud-modernization strategies, and engineering recommendations to USMC sponsors, leadership, and enterprise stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment across diverse audiences.
• Ensure Azure implementations follow USMC cybersecurity controls, compliance mandates (including RMF/ATO processes), governance models, and cost-management best practices suitable for government cloud environments.
• Strengthen engineering quality and team efficiency by promoting continuous improvement, cloud modernization, DevSecOps adoption, and enterprise-wide technical alignment within the USMC ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Must possess a current/active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
• Must possess a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of program/project management experience. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, must possess 10 years of related program/project management experience.
• Extensive systems engineering or software engineering experience.
• Strong program management background supporting government or complex multi-stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated leadership of multi-engineer technical teams.
• Proficiency with Azure cloud technologies and modern cloud engineering practices.
• Experience with agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
• Strong communication skills across technical and strategic domains.

Requirements

• Experience supporting defense, intelligence, or USMC enterprise environments.
• Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, DevOps Engineer, etc.).
• PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist, or INCOSE ASEP/CSEP certifications.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security models aligned to government environments.

Benefits

• The company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and a range of other voluntary benefits.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time and part-time employees.

Company Description

Five Rivers Analytics (FRA), an Akima company, is not just another federal IT contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

• At FRA, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.
• For our shareholders, FRA provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.
• For our government customers, FRA delivers streamlined operations in support of an increasingly fast-paced, complex, and dynamic digital environment.
• As a FRA employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values.
• You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.