SMX is seeking a Program Management Support Lead (PMO Lead) to support our Army Client.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead the ARES PMO support function and coordinate the work of PMO personnel and embedded Value Stream Analysts.
- Partner with the Government Program Manager to establish and continuously improve a lightweight ARES management system that provides reliable visibility into:
- Demand, intake, priorities, and backlog health;
- Work in progress, delivery flow, and delivery forecasts;
- Capacity, operational workload, and development-versus-operations tradeoffs;
- Risks, dependencies, blockers, decisions, and escalation needs;
- Integrated roadmaps, customer commitments, and strategic outcomes.
- Establish and maintain a practical operating cadence for integrated program reviews, backlog and flow reviews, roadmap synchronization, risk/dependency review, and decision tracking.
- Implement and maintain common Jira and Confluence structures, workflows, data definitions, dashboards, and documentation practices that support program management needs while minimizing administrative burden on delivery teams.
- Ensure Jira, ITSM, and related management data are sufficiently complete and reliable to support trend analysis, capacity decisions, contractual reporting, and leadership decision support.
- Develop executive-ready management products, including integrated roadmap views, portfolio health assessments, decision briefs, risk summaries, delivery updates, and contractual deliverables.
- Support the Government-led intake and triage process by coordinating demand capture, initial analysis, estimation inputs, routing, decision documentation, and status communication.
- Coordinate with Product Managers, Value Stream Analysts, technical leads, platform personnel, customer-enablement personnel, and external partners to identify cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, delivery risks, and decisions requiring Government attention
- Support proportionate management of sustained mission services, including visibility into operational workload, critical service conditions, critical-period readiness, release impacts, customer commitments, and continuity risks.
- Manage PMO documentation, including program schedules, integrated roadmaps, risk and dependency registers, decision records, meeting outcomes, management dashboards, and required program-management deliverables.
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve data quality, reduce reporting friction, and strengthen management decision quality.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Current Active Secret Clearance.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting program, portfolio, project, product-delivery, or PMO functions in a complex technical environment.
- 5+ years in a PMO leadership, delivery-management, portfolio-management, or equivalent senior coordination role.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing PMO, delivery-management, portfolio-management, or integrated planning functions within an active operational environment.
- Experience designing and implementing lightweight governance, integrated planning, demand management, risk/dependency management, capacity visibility, and executive decision support.
- Hands-on proficiency with program and project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and reporting tools.
- Experience with enterprise data, analytics, software delivery, IT platforms, digital transformation, or technology-enabled business operations.
- Demonstrated success leading through influence across technical, functional, customer, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong change-management instincts and experience moving a workforce from informal coordination to more visible, disciplined execution.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze work-management data and translate it into clear, decision-ready insights on demand, flow, capacity, delivery risk, and operational workload.
- Experience leading and coordinating geographically or functionally distributed support personnel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive briefings, decision papers, program reviews, and management reports.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, build trust across diverse stakeholders, and bring structure to ambiguous, evolving environments.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience supporting Army, DoW, or other Federal digital, data, analytics, financial-management, logistics, or enterprise IT programs.
- Experience with Kanban, Lean portfolio management, Agile delivery management, IT service management, or product operations.
- Experience supporting data-product, data-pipeline, dashboard, platform, or enterprise-service delivery.
- Experience developing integrated roadmaps, managing external dependencies, and supporting senior-leader decision forums.
- Experience working in a hybrid environment that requires on-site collaboration with Government and contractor personnel.
- Enterprise IT service management, product operations, platform operations, or service-delivery management.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL, Scrum, Kanban, or comparable certification.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2026
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The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning & development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.
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Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Current active Secret clearance
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting program, portfolio, project, product-delivery, or PMO functions in a complex technical environment
- 5+ years in PMO leadership, delivery management, portfolio management, or an equivalent senior coordination role
- Experience establishing or maturing PMO, delivery-management, portfolio-management, or integrated planning functions in an active operational environment
- Experience designing and implementing governance, integrated planning, demand management, risk and dependency management, capacity visibility, and executive decision support
- Hands-on proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and reporting tools
- Experience with enterprise data, analytics, software delivery, IT platforms, digital transformation, or technology-enabled business operations
- Experience leading through influence across technical, functional, customer, and executive stakeholders
- Change-management experience moving a workforce from informal coordination to disciplined execution
- Ability to analyze work-management data and translate it into decision-ready insights
- Experience leading and coordinating geographically or functionally distributed support personnel
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefings, decision papers, program reviews, and management reports
- Ability to work independently, build stakeholder trust, and bring structure to ambiguous environments
- Experience supporting Army, Department of War, or other Federal digital, data, analytics, financial-management, logistics, or enterprise IT programs
- Experience with Kanban, Lean portfolio management, Agile delivery management, IT service management, or product operations
- Experience supporting data products, data pipelines, dashboards, platforms, or enterprise services
- Experience developing integrated roadmaps, managing external dependencies, and supporting senior-leader decision forums
- Experience working in a hybrid environment with on-site collaboration
- Enterprise IT service management, product operations, platform operations, or service-delivery management experience
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL, Scrum, Kanban, or comparable certification
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