Program Manager

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Program Manager to lead contractor performance for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Digital Capabilities Directorate. The Program Manager will serve as the primary management interface with Government stakeholders and will be accountable for integrated execution across the program.

The Program Manager will coordinate performance across enterprise IT, software development, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and mission-support workstreams while maintaining accurate, real-time visibility into schedule, cost, staffing, risk, quality, and deliverable status.

Candidates in the Dayton, Ohio, area are preferred. Availability during 0900-1500 Eastern Time core hours and travel or on-site support at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base may be required.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Program Manager will:

• Serve as the primary Contractor point of contact and coordinate with Government program leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Lead integrated execution across IT, cybersecurity, software, cloud, data, and infrastructure workstreams, ensuring schedule, budget, performance, and contract requirements are met.
• Manage staffing, workload, workforce continuity, personnel transitions, and knowledge transfer to minimize service disruption.
• Lead program reviews and stakeholder meetings and provide timely status, performance metrics, decisions, corrective actions, and contract deliverables.
• Manage quality, technical and program risks, transition activities, and continuous-improvement efforts.
• Coordinate company leadership, subcontractors, and technical personnel while ensuring workforce readiness and compliance with security, training, certification, property, records-management, and other contractual requirements.

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement:

Must hold an active Secret clearance. Eligibility for or prior access at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level is preferred.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum eight years of progressively responsible program or project management experience supporting complex IT, cybersecurity, software, cloud, data, or engineering efforts.
• At least five years of experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams, including personnel, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, and deliverables.
• Experience managing federal or Department of Defense contracts and working directly with Government program leadership.
• Experience managing firm-fixed-price work and performance-based service requirements strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting classified, mission-critical, or research-and-development environments preferred.

Technical Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure, software development, cloud platforms, data management, cybersecurity, and IT service delivery.
• Familiarity with performance metrics, quality-management plans, transition plans, risk management, configuration management, and contract deliverables.
• Ability to interpret PWS requirements, security obligations, schedules, staffing needs, and performance standards and translate them into executable plans.

Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• ITIL, Agile, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or related management certifications preferred.

Skills:

• Strong leadership, personnel-management, and customer-engagement abilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Strong planning, organization, risk-management, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and integrate multiple technical workstreams.
• Ability to make timely decisions and represent the company effectively with Government stakeholders.
• Ability to support Eastern Time core hours and travel to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base or other locations as required.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.