Key Responsibilities
- Serve as NextGen’s lead representative and authorized decision-maker on all programmatic, contractual, and operational matters
- Provide leadership, guidance, and supervision to all contractor staff assigned under the program, including task assignment, performance monitoring, and resource coordination.
- Manage overall performance to ensure delivery of high-quality, timely, and cost-effective solutions aligned with contract requirements and government objectives.
- Oversee the delivery and quality of technical efforts, ensuring alignment with government strategy, performance requirements, and high-level IT objectives.
- Collaborate regularly with the customer’s senior IT leadership to ensure program activities support organizational and programmatic goals.
- Supervise cost, schedule, technical capabilities, resource allocation, and risk management to maintain performance excellence.
- Proactively identify and escalate potential programmatic or contractual risks to the Government, including any issues that may impactthe ability to meet service delivery commitments.
- Ensure the effective management of contractor and subcontractor staff across a range of labor categories and skillsets, supporting diverse and dynamic program needs.
- Operate independently and take ownership of the successful execution of the program while maintaining compliance with industry best practices and Federal standards.
- Serve as the primary interface, with full support from corporate resources, with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and Contracting Officer (CO).
- Coordinate and ensure that there is support for off-hours for any emergencies such as maintenance work or outages.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (equivalent additional years of related experience may be substituted for degree).
- Ten (10) or more years of IT project management experience focusing on development projects.
- At least three (3) years of experience in managing DevSecOps projects.
- Direct experience supervising and managing a multidisciplinary workforce (including subcontractors) across projects of comparable size and scope.
- Proven ability to manage program costs, schedule, risks, and technical performance while maintaining client satisfaction and compliance.
- Familiarity with the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle and compliance requirements for IT service delivery and performance reporting.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to manage senior-level stakeholder relationships.
- Experience supporting programs within the DHS or similar Federal/Defense organizations highly desired.
- A current Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) is highly desired.
Top Skills
What We Do
NextGen is an award-winning IT solutions and services provider. NextGen is a fast-growing company that employs agile and mature processes in areas of innovation, research and development, program management, systems engineering, and technology commercialization. Current customers include the Department of Defense, Federal Government, and commercial companies.
NextGen utilizes a mixed model consisting of Services and Solution Development in support of customer goals. Our core areas of expertise include Software Development, Research and Development, Enterprise IT Systems Engineering, and Cyber Security & Data Management. NextGen obtained ISO 9001 certification and achieved CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraisal. Recent and steady growth led to our recognition by INC 5000 as the 211th (2016), 440th (2017), 1096th (2018), 1703rd (2019), and 2437th (2020) fastest-growing company in the US and 19th fastest growing IT Services Company in the US. NextGen has offices near Aberdeen, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Dayton, OH; O’Fallon, IL, and Morgantown, WV.
We understand the paradigm shift of doing more with less; developing, operating, and supporting complex systems and missions while keeping pace with changing technologies; and providing high-quality working solutions to analysts and warfighters supporting the Federal Government. We aggressively manage internal costs to ensure competitive salaries for top talent while ensuring cost-effective delivery to our customers. As the demand for quality increases, NextGen is well-positioned to tackle the most intricate challenges facing the defense and intelligence communities today.
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