Senior Lead Program Manager, Client Project Delivery - Professional Consulting Services (RapidScale) (Remote)

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Hiring Remotely in Washington, DC, USA
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71K-128K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
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The Role
Leads large, complex technical programs and strategic portfolios across engineering, professional services, architecture, operations, and executive stakeholders. Oversees planning, governance, dependencies, risks, scope, change management, implementation, and post-implementation reviews. Develops delivery frameworks, business cases, success metrics, and executive reporting; improves project management standards and operational models; manages competing priorities and resources; and mentors project managers while driving predictable, high-quality customer and business outcomes.
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This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes, with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow, all backed by the scale and strength of Spectrum.
The Senior Lead Project / Program Manager leads large, complex, enterprise initiatives that span multiple technical teams, business functions, and organizational priorities. This role provides strategic leadership across the full project and program lifecycle while serving as a trusted partner to professional services leadership, , Operations, Architecture, and executive stakeholders. As a recognized subject matter expert, the Senior Lead Project / Program Manager drives execution of highly complex technical initiatives, establishes scalable governance and delivery frameworks, pilots new operating models, and influences strategy through disciplined program management, risk mitigation, and operational excellence. This role owns strategic portfolios of related initiatives, balances competing priorities across multiple stakeholders, and continuously improves how Engineering delivers business value.
Duties & Responsibilities
  • Lead large, complex projects and strategic programs involving multiple technical teams, cross-functional dependencies, executive stakeholders, and organizational priorities.
  • Provide leadership across the complete project and program lifecycle, including intake, planning, estimation, governance, dependency management, risk assessment, execution, implementation, scope management, change management, and post-implementation review.
  • Partner closely with Professional Services leaders, architects, Operations, and business stakeholders to successfully deliver complex technical initiatives involving cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, networking, security, software delivery, automation, and operational systems.
  • Apply strong technical judgment to understand engineering architecture, delivery dependencies, implementation risks, and operational impacts while facilitating informed decision-making and removing delivery obstacles.
  • Serve as a recognized subject matter expert within Engineering, Sales, and Project Management, providing guidance on delivery strategy, governance, prioritization, issue resolution, and organizational execution.
  • Own strategic portfolios of related initiatives, balancing competing priorities, organizational risk, resource constraints, funding considerations, and executive expectations to maximize customer and business value.
  • Pilot new project workflows, delivery methodologies, governance models, and project types; document lessons learned; and operationalize successful practices across the Professional Services organization.
  • Define, implement, and continuously improve enterprise project and program management standards, governance frameworks, and delivery best practices that improve consistency, predictability, and execution quality across Professional Services.
  • Build strong partnerships with senior leaders, directors, vice presidents, and executives by developing business cases, executive presentations, ROI analyses, status reporting, and strategic recommendations that support informed decision-making.
  • Identify systemic delivery risks, organizational dependencies, and process improvement opportunities that enhance engineering execution, operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and business performance.
  • Manage scope across multiple engagements and prevent scope creep through proper documentation, escalation and change control processes.
  • Establish meaningful success metrics across engineering programs, including delivery predictability, customer satisfaction, operational performance, resource utilization, financial outcomes, quality, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Coach and mentor project managers and cross-functional team members by sharing best practices, strengthening delivery capabilities, and advancing project and program management maturity across the organization.

Qualifications & Attributes
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field and 8 or more years of experience leading complex engineering projects, enterprise programs, technical product delivery, or management consulting. The right candidate could also have a master's degree with 6 or more years of experience, a Ph.D. with 3 or more years of experience, or 12 or more years of related professional experience.
  • Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale engineering projects and strategic programs spanning multiple organizations, technologies, executive stakeholders, and business functions.
  • Strong understanding of engineering delivery methodologies (waterfall and agile), project and program governance, portfolio management, dependency management, risk management, tight scope management, software development lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and operational delivery models.
  • Demonstrated technical credibility with the ability to understand technical architecture, infrastructure modernization, cloud platforms, software delivery, technical dependencies, and implementation risks without serving as the technical design authority.
  • Proven ability to influence strategy, delivery approaches, governance decisions, and organizational priorities through data-driven recommendations and executive-level communication.
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable project management frameworks, governance processes, operating models, playbooks, and delivery standards that improve organizational effectiveness.
  • Demonstrated ability to oversee the coordinated work of multiple teams and individuals, influence without direct authority, and successfully lead complex cross-functional initiatives in highly matrixed organizations.
  • Exceptional executive communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust and influence decisions at all organizational levels.
  • Strong business acumen with experience applying financial analysis, ROI evaluation, prioritization frameworks, and strategic planning to engineering investments and delivery decisions.
  • Demonstrated success operating independently in ambiguous environments while managing competing priorities, organizational change, and evolving business objectives.
  • Passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and advancing the maturity of consulting and professional services project and program management practices across the organization.

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The base pay for this position generally is between
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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, plus 8 or more years of relevant experience
  • Alternatively, a master's degree with 6 or more years of experience, a Ph.D. with 3 or more years of experience, or 12 or more years of related professional experience
  • Experience leading complex engineering projects, enterprise programs, technical product delivery, or management consulting engagements
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale projects and strategic programs across multiple organizations, technologies, executive stakeholders, and business functions
  • Strong understanding of waterfall and agile delivery methodologies, project and program governance, portfolio management, dependency management, risk management, scope management, software development lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and operational delivery models
  • Technical credibility and ability to understand technical architecture, infrastructure modernization, cloud platforms, software delivery, technical dependencies, and implementation risks
  • Experience influencing strategy, delivery approaches, governance decisions, and organizational priorities through data-driven recommendations and executive communication
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable project management frameworks, governance processes, operating models, playbooks, and delivery standards
  • Ability to coordinate multiple teams, influence without direct authority, and lead complex cross-functional initiatives in matrixed organizations
  • Exceptional executive communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Business acumen, including financial analysis, ROI evaluation, prioritization frameworks, and strategic planning for engineering investments and delivery decisions
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments while managing competing priorities, organizational change, and evolving business objectives
  • Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and advancing professional services project and program management maturity
  • Ability to work lawfully in the United States without employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future

RapidScale Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is often considered competitive or "great," and is commonly cited among the best parts of working at the company. Pay is seen as a core strength that helps attract experienced talent across sales, consulting, and engineering roles.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales and other client-facing roles are viewed as offering strong earning potential, with compensation structures that can be especially competitive. Upside opportunity is highlighted in areas such as mid-market account executive and consulting tracks.

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The Company
HQ: Raleigh, NC
600 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

RapidScale delivers secure, scalable, innovative solutions to enterprises through the most comprehensive and customizable suite of managed, professional, and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Our solutions are designed to meet business outcomes—not just infrastructure needs—with fully embedded cyber resiliency and forward-looking, data-managed AI solutions. We’re on every platform that matters, which means we can adapt to any situation, optimize operations, modernize systems, improve agility, and grow with our clients based entirely on their needs—not off-the-shelf offerings. Our job isn’t just to manage environments. It’s to help businesses stay innovative, relevant, and competitive. By combining advisory expertise with hands-on execution, we open new revenue streams, optimize operations, modernize systems, improve agility, and uncover new ways for technology to fuel lasting business growth. As one of Broadcom VMware’s select few Elite partners, we provide hybrid-ready architecture, strategic expertise, and expansion of talent—in multi-tenant or dedicated environments in one or more of our global facilities and/or on premises in a client’s data center. As an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, and certified Google Cloud Partner, we can optimize, modernize, and manage public cloud workloads anywhere and in any combination our clients choose. 2k+ managed cloud clients. 1k+ public cloud migrations. FinOps expertise that reduces client cloud bills by an average of 15–30%. With RapidScale, clients can rapidly deploy across public, private and hybrid environments globally in SSAE-18 SOC 1 & 2, ISO, HITRUST, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS certified data centers, protected by n+1 redundancy.

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