Senior Delivery Manager
Leads Agile software delivery for government BAS systems, managing cross-functional teams, sprints, backlogs, and release schedules to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes for federal clients.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in IT project management, product management, or a closely related discipline
- Minimum of 4 years of direct experience managing Agile software development teams in a multi-system portfolio environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Operations Management, or related field
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
Nice to have
- MBA or Master's degree in a relevant field of study
- Agile, Scrum, project management, or product management certification (e.g., PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe)
- Experience supporting federal IT programs
Full description
Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at .
We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team and support our client. The ideal candidate is an experienced Agile delivery leader with a demonstrated ability to manage concurrent application delivery efforts within a complex, multi-system environment. This individual will champion Agile practices, lead cross-functional coordination, remove delivery impediments, and provide delivery oversight across an assigned portfolio of BAS systems.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Champion Agile methodologies across assigned BAS systems, ensuring the consistent application of sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and release cadence.
- Remove impediments for development and operations teams, escalating to the Program Manager when resolution requires contract-level intervention.
- Coordinate release schedules across assigned systems, manage dependencies, and minimize delivery conflicts.
- Manage non-key Technical Leads and Operations Leads for individual systems within the assigned portfolio subset.
- Ensure cross-functional collaboration among development, testing, security, and operations teams for all active work assignments.
- Maintain a current, prioritized backlog for all assigned systems; review the backlog with the Program Manager at least monthly and update it weekly.
- Monitor and report delivery performance, resource utilization, and risks for assigned systems as part of the monthly status-reporting cycle.
- Support onboarding of new applications into the assigned portfolio subset, ensuring rapid, stable integration without degrading existing service levels.
Work Experience and Job Skills
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in IT project management, product management, or a closely related discipline.
- Minimum of 4 years of direct experience managing Agile software development teams in a multi-system portfolio environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams supporting concurrent application delivery efforts.
- Experience coordinating Agile ceremonies, release planning, dependency management, risk management, and delivery reporting.