Job Type
Full-time
Description
* This position is contingent upon a future opening with Gunnison.
Salary: $165,000-$175,000
Work location: Hybrid, Atlanta, GA.
- Lead delivery of a complex federal IT portfolio that includes multiple web and data applications, shared services, and ongoing modernization efforts in a Microsoft centric environment.
- Serve as the primary interface to client leaders on program execution, priorities, risks, issues, staffing, and performance across several concurrent projects.
- Manage integrated schedules, roadmaps, and reporting across teams using modern work management and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps or similar platforms.
- Oversee governance and lifecycle compliance, ensuring project artifacts, status, and decisions are documented in line with federal IT processes and stage gate reviews.
- Coordinate closely with technical leads who are using Git based repositories (for example, GitHub or equivalent) and automated pipelines to plan releases and manage dependencies.
- Lead regular status reviews, portfolio health reviews, and executive briefings, including clear escalation and mitigation plans for schedule, quality, or technical risks.
- Support transition, surge, and continuity planning in a dynamic environment where priorities, volumes, and technologies evolve over time.
- Ensure delivery aligns with federal security, privacy, and operational requirements, working with security and compliance leads to address findings and follow up actions.
Requirements
- US Citizenship required
- 10+ years of federal IT program management, portfolio management, or related leadership roles.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams across application development, integration, operations and maintenance, and modernization initiatives.
- Experience working with government customers, contract deliverables, performance metrics, executive reporting, and formal governance processes.
- Experience managing teams using agile or iterative delivery approaches, Git-based collaboration, and coordinated release planning.
- Demonstrated success managing schedules, risks, staffing, communications, and cross-functional technical teams in regulated environments.
- PMP
- ITIL Foundation (or equivalent IT service management certification)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field
Desired Qualification:- Experience leading programs that use GitHub and/or Azure DevOps for work tracking, source control, and release coordination.
- Experience managing teams that deliver through CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and security checks, not just manual deployments.
- Experience supporting cloud migration, application modernization, or data modernization efforts in Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platforms.
- Experience with federal health, public health, or HHS/CDC-adjacent IT programs.
- Experience standing up or maturing IT service management practices (for example, incident, change, and problem management) using modern ITSM tools.
- Agile certification such as CSM, PMI ACP, or SAFe.
- Cloud certifications that support large program oversight.
- Master's degree in a related field
Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
The salary range for this position depends upon multiple factors including location, the individual's knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, and contract-specific budget constraints and organizational requirements.
Gunnison Consulting Group's total compensation package also includes bonus and profit-sharing opportunities, depending on company and employee performance. Available employee benefits include:
- 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!
Salary Description
$165,000 - $175,000/year
