Deputy Technical Program Manager - Data Modernization

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program. The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The DeputyTechnical Program Manager will lead the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team in delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO's data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate will be an experienced program leader with a long track record of successfully managing programs/projects with similar operations scope. The Program Manager is responsible for supervising all personnel, managing senior-level customer relationships, and overseeing delivery driving process and quality improvement. The successful candidate will be a change agent, not content with the status quo. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are essential in this role. The role requires the ability to successfully juggle priorities in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent work streams. The successful candidate will thrive on the challenge and help the teams achieve a high degree of operational maturity.

The DeputyTechnical Program Manager will execute the following responsibilities:

• Act as the single point of contact to oversee contract execution and ensure alignment with strategic goals.

• Provides contract coordination, performance accountability, and strategic stakeholder engagement.

• Operates with full authority to act for the Contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operations.

• Serve as the senior technical authority across all development, architecture, integration, and modernization activities.

• Define the program’s technical strategy, architecture vision, engineering standards, and modernization roadmap.

• Ensure technical alignment with enterprise, security, and compliance standards.

• Manage internal and external communications strategy, reporting, and coordination.

• Responsible for the overall performance of the call order such as formulating work standards, assigning Contractor schedules and resources, reviewing performance, cost, and budget information; supervising Contractor personnel; and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to subordinates.

• Ensure desired results by determining and implementing objectives and allocating appropriate resources.

• Manage the development, operations, and implementation tasks using Agile Project Management techniques.

• Create and maintain a roadmap, aligning tasks with organizational strategy, vision, and business outcomes for the CMM effort.

• Facilitate project meetings, document meeting summaries, capture key decisions, and track action items.

• Develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to include milestones, dependencies, and other details.

• Provide biweekly Agile reports such as sprint reports, backlog reporting, sprint burndown charts, sprint retrospective reports, risk registry, etc.

• Develop and update the Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) log, and other project management related artifacts.

• Perform risk identification and mitigation. Identify and communicate technical, operational, and business risks; develop mitigation strategies.

• Provide transparent reporting, with regular updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, financials, and outcomes.

• Provide the COR and government leads with analysis and research, of alternatives, and solution and design options related to the Case Management Modernization effort upon request.

• 10+ years’ experience in IT Management including technology solutions delivery with emphasis on data governance strategy, standards development, implementation, operation support, and change management services to accelerate modernization efforts.

• The Deputy Technical Program Manager must possess bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

• The Deputy Technical Program Manager must possess a Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).

• Expertise in overseeing teams dedicated to big data cloud solution architecture, cybersecurity, data management, business intelligence and analytics.

• Excellent customer-facing skills with experience briefing senior executive leadership.

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