[Hiring] Senior IT Program Manager @Gunnison Consulting Group

Role Description

Serve as the accountable senior leader for a complex, multi-year VA enterprise modernization and systems-integration program.

• Lead end-to-end program execution, including mobilization, transition, discovery, planning, implementation, Initial Operating Capability (IOC), operational stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and lead an integrated PMO supporting program controls, integrated master scheduling, financial/resource management, risk management, deliverables governance, quality management, and executive reporting.
• Direct multiple concurrent technical and functional workstreams, ensuring dependency management, risk visibility, integrated execution, and on-time delivery.
• Partner with the Deputy Program Manager / IOC Lead to drive accelerated IOC readiness, implementation sequencing, milestone achievement, and issue resolution.
• Act as the principal customer-facing delivery executive for VA executives, program leadership, technical stakeholders, business owners, and teaming partners.
• Translate mission objectives into an executable roadmap, governance cadence, integrated delivery plan, staffing model, performance measures, and decision framework.
• Lead program-level planning and control for ITSM/ESM, asset/configuration management, service catalog, workflow automation, integrations, data management, reporting, testing, training, and organizational change.
• Oversee staffing, key-personnel readiness, surge planning, subcontractor/teaming-partner coordination, and workforce retention.
• Ensure disciplined execution of schedules, resource plans, risk/issue registers, decision logs, executive dashboards, status reports, quality plans, and deliverable calendars.
• Manage financial performance and forecast labor/subcontractor needs in partnership with contracts and finance.
• Lead executive steering committees, program reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, and integrated workstream meetings.
• Identify and mitigate risks involving readiness, data, integrations, dependencies, staffing, stakeholder alignment, and schedule compression.
• Support proposal, oral presentation, customer-engagement, and post-award transition activities as a potential named key person.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience delivering large, complex federal IT, digital transformation, enterprise-platform, ERP, or systems-integration programs.
• 10+ years in senior program or portfolio management roles with accountability for delivery, customer engagement, staffing, schedule, financial performance, risk, and subcontractor/team leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise program with multiple concurrent workstreams, significant technical interdependencies, and a large multidisciplinary workforce.
• Demonstrated experience leading a program at significant scale—preferably $100M+, 75+ FTEs, or a comparably complex portfolio of enterprise initiatives.
• Experience establishing and operating a PMO, including integrated master scheduling, program controls, risk/issue management, financial/resource management, configuration/change control, reporting, and deliverables management.
• Proven experience leading accelerated implementation, transition, modernization, or operational-readiness efforts with fixed milestones and high executive visibility.
• Experience managing complex stakeholders across business, IT, security, architecture, operations, procurement, and executive leadership.
• Experience managing prime/subcontractor teams, staffing pipelines, surge requirements, partner accountability, and cross-company delivery governance.
• Experience using Agile, hybrid Agile, and/or iterative delivery methods within formal federal program-management controls.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to lead senior customer meetings, brief executives, resolve escalated issues, and communicate delivery tradeoffs clearly.
• PMP certifications.
• Current training or demonstrated experience in Agile delivery, Scrum, SAFe, or a comparable scaled/enterprise Agile approach.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of federal program-management disciplines, including performance-management concepts, integrated scheduling, risk management, and formal governance.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain all required VA suitability, access, and system credentials.
• U.S. citizen or otherwise eligible to obtain and maintain all required VA access, suitability, and system credentials; confirm final eligibility restrictions upon RFP release.

Benefits

• 3 weeks of Personal Leave your first year.
• 11 paid Holidays each year.
• 5 days of Flexible Time Off each year for approved training or certifications (self-study is ineligible).
• 401(k) company match at 50% up to 10% of your salary.
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance.
• Life and Disability Insurance.
• Public Transportation Subsidies.
• Certifications and Training Allowance - Up to $5,000/year!