The Role
Serve as single point of accountability for a federal public health technology program. Lead governance, agile delivery, release decisions, cost and risk reporting, multi-team coordination, and stakeholder engagement for a nationwide disease surveillance platform.
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We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to serve as the primary contractor representative and single point of accountability for a public health technology program supporting a federal health agency. This leadership position offers the opportunity to direct agile development, operations, and modernization of a case-based disease surveillance platform that state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments rely on nationwide.
About This Role
As Program Manager, you serve as the single point of accountability for the program and the contractor's authorized interface with the federal customer's contracting and product leadership. You direct delivery across help desk, DevSecOps, quality assurance, development, case notification, and migration workstreams, and you hold final contractor authority for release prioritization and go/no-go decisions. You lead a multi-team organization spanning software engineering, platform operations, user support, and public health informatics.
What You'll Do
Lead program governance
What You Bring
Logistics and Classification
Salary Information
We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to serve as the primary contractor representative and single point of accountability for a public health technology program supporting a federal health agency. This leadership position offers the opportunity to direct agile development, operations, and modernization of a case-based disease surveillance platform that state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments rely on nationwide.
About This Role
As Program Manager, you serve as the single point of accountability for the program and the contractor's authorized interface with the federal customer's contracting and product leadership. You direct delivery across help desk, DevSecOps, quality assurance, development, case notification, and migration workstreams, and you hold final contractor authority for release prioritization and go/no-go decisions. You lead a multi-team organization spanning software engineering, platform operations, user support, and public health informatics.
What You'll Do
Lead program governance
- Provide governance, planning, coordination, and decision-making oversight across all contractor teams and workstreams
- Establish and execute the Program Management Plan covering delivery approach, roles, communications, risk, and quality management
- Serve as final authority for release prioritization, sequencing, and go/no-go decisions across teams
- Represent the contractor in customer governance meetings and own the relationship with contracting and product leadership
- Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution check-ins, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across multiple Scrum teams
- Develop and maintain the integrated release plan and release calendar, coordinating scope, schedule, dependencies, environments, approvals, and communications
- Identify cross-team dependencies before sprint commitment and manage them through to resolution
- Coordinate release communications: release notes packaging, user-facing advisories, and internal change notifications
- Manage program cost performance: labor planning, burn rate monitoring, forecast-to-complete, and early warning on cost risk
- Produce, quality-check, and deliver all contractual reports and deliverables on schedule, including monthly status reports, staff rosters, and earned value reporting
- Operate the risk, issue, and opportunity register with defined review cadence and escalation of high and critical items within one business day
- Maintain staffing plans with designated backups for key roles, continuity coverage, and surge planning
- Run the weekly execution review and monthly stakeholder governance review with agendas, notes, and action items
- Chair release readiness reviews with documented entry and exit criteria and go/no-go decisions
- Track release risks and blockers daily during active release windows
- Review team delivery metrics (throughput, velocity trends, spillover) and use them to improve predictability
- Deliver the monthly reporting package by the 10th calendar day of each month
- Field escalations from workstream leads and clear impediments the teams cannot clear themselves
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of relevant program or project management experience
- Experience managing agile software delivery programs for federal civilian agencies under firm-fixed-price terms
- Demonstrated authority-holding roles: release decisions, budget accountability, government-facing leadership
- Experience directing multi-team delivery organizations of 30 or more staff
- PMP or equivalent certification; agile certifications (CSM, SAFe) a plus
- Experience with public health, health IT, or scientific mission programs
- Experience leading incumbent-capture transitions and multi-vendor coordination
- Earned value management reporting experience
Logistics and Classification
- Location: remote (contractor facility), with core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET.
- Occasional domestic travel to client and stakeholder sites.
- All personnel must be able to obtain a federal background investigation commensurate with position sensitivity and a PIV credential. No security clearance is required.
- This position is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated start in October 2026.
Salary Information
- $165,000.00 to $180,000.00 - commensurate with experience and skillset
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 10 years of relevant program or project management experience
- Experience managing agile software delivery programs for federal civilian agencies under firm-fixed-price terms
- Demonstrated authority-holding roles (release decisions, budget accountability, government-facing leadership)
- Experience directing multi-team delivery organizations of 30+ staff
- Ability to obtain a federal background investigation commensurate with position sensitivity and a PIV credential
- Core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET
- Occasional domestic travel to client and stakeholder sites
- Produce contractual reports and earned value reporting on schedule
- Manage program cost performance including labor planning and burn-rate monitoring
- Facilitate agile ceremonies and maintain integrated release plans
- Operate risk/issue/opportunity register with defined review cadence and one-business-day escalation for high/critical items
- Chair release readiness reviews and hold final go/no-go authority
- Experience with DevSecOps, QA, help desk, migration, and multi-vendor coordination (implied)
- PMP or equivalent certification
- Agile certifications (CSM, SAFe)
- Experience with public health, health IT, or scientific mission programs
- Experience leading incumbent-capture transitions and multi-vendor coordination
- Earned value management reporting experience
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What We Do
Development InfoStructure, LLC. (Devis) is a leading provider of IT consulting services and solutions to the Federal, State and Local Governments, as well as the international development community. Devis helps maximize your return on IT investment by: 1) working with the best-adapted programming languages, databases and other solutions for your specific project; 2) actively supporting the open source community; and 3) using and promoting open technology standards. Devis has extensive experience with world wide software deployments and support. Our systems operate in more than 80 countries, and in every federal department. Devis-built systems involve the full vertical spectrum of users from data entry clerks to Governement managers to Congress
