In anticipation of a contract award, Tantus Technologies, Inc. (Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking a Program Manager to support a Federal Client. The Program Manager will lead and oversee our team in the areas of planning, organizing, managing, coordinating, and tracking of IT development work, IT operations, resources, client satisfaction, and overall delivery, as well as contract and personnel administration, teaming partner relationships, and corporate reporting. This includes ensuring quality deliverables and services, client responsiveness and satisfaction, contractual responsiveness and compliance, contract risk and issue management, financial management, and seeking organic growth for the contract scope and revenue.
What You'll Do
Contract Management
- Ensure contractual compliance with the Statement of Work and Deliverables
- Prepare for and present status to the client and contracts team on a weekly basis; prepare for and present program status to client and contract stakeholders on a quarterly basis
- Maintain list of key personnel, and ensure adequate qualifications of key personnel; prepare submissions for the CO when there are changes to key personnel
- Maintain or work toward work-share agreements with sub-contractors
Financial Management
- Accountable for the appropriate management of funding by each option year on the program; ensure visibility into the financial situation for appropriate government customers
- Seek opportunities to grow the contract and increase funding through greater breadth or depth of scope of services
Delivery
- Manages day-to-day operational aspects of the project and scope, including coordination of deadlines and other activities to provide effective system changes and process execution
- Facilitate information sharing and coordination across work-streams, including program-level team meetings, management meetings, status meetings, brown bag lunches, team social event
- Identify integration points, potential efficiencies and external dependencies among product-level schedule
- Design, develop, contribute to, and maintain management plans, such as program and project management plans, OCIO-level contract deliverables, risk and issue management plans, schedule management plans, communication management plans, quality management plans, and other required artifacts such as a decision log or action items list
- Establish and maintain a repository of contract/program - related documents
- Analyze contract pain points and gaps and make process improvement recommendations; implement recommendations as required
- Provide ad hoc reports to address topics or issues as requested by clients. These include but are not limited to white papers, options papers, executive summaries
- Establish and monitors schedules. Identifies resources needed and assign individual responsibilities
- Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients
- Builds a knowledge base of our client's business, systems and objectives
Required Knowledge and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related discipline.
- A minimum of 5 years direct experience that demonstrates the ability to lead or direct large and complex technology implementations that are of high impact and involve difficult integrations, diverse technologies, and multiple stakeholder agencies, business and technical units, including SAP, S/4HANA and Java-based landscapes for federal government implementations.
- SAFe 6 Agilist Certification
- Demonstrated capability to manage a large government program with 10+ staff
- Demonstrated expertise in the management and control of funds and resources using complex reporting mechanisms and demonstrated ability in managing multi-task contracts and/or subcontracts of various types and complexity.
- Demonstrated ability to interact comfortably with Senior Leadership and/or Government Executives and staff on a day-to-day basis.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and success building team relationships and partnerships across organizational lines.
- Demonstrated analytical skills and business presentation skills.
- Demonstrated experience managing spend plans and contract requirements; cost plus contract experience is preferred.
- Strong proficiency with MS Project, MS Excel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to present complex materials to a diverse stakeholder community.
- Direct experience with leading/participating in Agile teams (SAFe preferred).
- Must successfully complete a Background Investigation (Green Card Holder or U.S. Citizenship is a requirement).
Abilities
- Must successfully complete a Background Investigation (Green Card Holder or U.S. Citizenship is a requirement).
Nice to Haves
- ITIL certification
- PMP certification
- Financial Management experience
Why Tantus? We Provide:
- Competitive total compensation package based on the work you do and the contributions you make
- An environment that supports balancing great work with a great life
- A learning organization that invests in you with $3000 annually for professional development opportunities
- Excellent healthcare programs available through United Healthcare
- Community engagement events where you will have ample opportunities to give back by volunteering
- Discretionary quarterly bonuses for above and beyond contributions and outstanding performance
About Us
Tantus is an IT development and management consulting firm helping federal programs become more successful, cost-effective and mission-focused through program management oversight and system development and implementation. Our people are committed to making our world better by delivering solutions to improve the effectiveness of government services and citizen experience. Tantus is Latin for “so great” or “so much” – we strive to put great things into everything we do.
Tantus is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, military status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $140,000.00 - $165,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Compensation package:
Experience level:
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Application Question(s):
- Do you have a minimum of 5 years of experience overseeing large federal government programs?
- Do you have experience migrating a federal government client to SAP S/4HANA?
- This position requires US Citizenship OR a Green Card holder; do you meet this requirement?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20250