Program Director

eSimplicity

Program Director leading eSimplicity’s federal data and analytics modernization program. Overseeing performance, governance, and stakeholder engagement across various teams and operations.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $156,500 - $187,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide executive accountability for program performance, strategic alignment, contract and budget governance, stakeholder escalation, and overall delivery health.
Lead an integrated, multi-team delivery model that maintains coverage across platform foundations, cloud operations, security, data supply chain, metadata, governed data asset operations, analytics experience, dashboard governance, public-facing products, AI and advanced platform enablement, external exchange, APIs, partner integrations, user success, documentation, and change management.
Maintain a highly collaborative operating model that gives customer personnel continuous visibility into code, documentation, backlogs, metrics, dashboards, risks, decisions, and operational status in approved systems of record.
Oversee program deliverables and management artifacts, including roadmap and PI Planning packages, monthly status, risk, and performance reporting, quality inputs, staffing and retention information, transition-in and transition-out readiness, and continuity planning.
Provide leadership over applicable coverage areas, including cross-cutting program leadership, architecture coordination, product management, engineering operations, data operations, support operations, domain expertise, and enterprise stakeholder engagement.
Promote reuse, portability, documentation quality, customer ownership of artifacts, and sustainable operations across code, infrastructure, analytics products, runbooks, AI configurations, metadata, service guides, and transition materials.
Serve as the primary interface to client leadership, product owners, and security stakeholders, cloud and platform partners, product teams, and directed policy or operations groups owning stakeholder escalation and maintaining a collaborative, responsive, and trusting relationship.
Collaborate with government partners on the strategic direction of the program, confirming alignment with agency data strategy imperatives and measurable progress toward program goals.
Ensure program management practices make outcomes measurable across service reliability, data quality, delivery flow, engineering health, security and compliance, user success, analytics adoption, cost transparency, AI services, AIOps, and metadata maturity.
Foster a badge-less culture of innovation and continuous improvement, driving cross-functional team success and coordinating across related programs and platform teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in IT consulting with significant agile project/program management experience in the federal government space
All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government.
Bachelor’s degree
Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex, multi-team cloud data, analytics, platform, or digital services programs in close partnership with Government or enterprise stakeholders.
Experience providing executive-level program governance, stakeholder escalation, risk management, delivery transparency, performance reporting, and budget or contract oversight.
Deep understanding of CMS policies, regulations, and security and privacy expectations, with direct experience in Medicaid, CHIP, or comparable federal data and reporting programs.
Strong grasp of program financials, staffing, and subcontract management, with a track record of maintaining budget integrity and operational excellence.
Ability to lead teams operating through SAFe Agile or comparable multi-team agile delivery models, including PI Planning, cross-team coordination, backlog transparency, demos, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
Working understanding of cloud operations, DevSecOps, data engineering, metadata maturity, business intelligence and analytics, public-facing reporting, API services, AI governance, user support, documentation, and change management.
Ability to oversee delivery in customer-approved systems of record for work management, source control, documentation, collaboration, dashboarding, observability, and reporting.
Knowledge of federal security, privacy, accessibility, data-use, and Government data-rights expectations applicable to systems handling sensitive Government information.
Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) retirement benefits
paid time off
paid holidays
life and disability insurance
additional wellness and employee support programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Program GovernanceRisk ManagementBudget OversightData AnalyticsPerformance ReportingSAFe Agile MethodologyAPI ServicesChange ManagementMetadata MaturityBusiness Intelligence

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationStakeholder EngagementContinuous ImprovementCommunication

Certifications

Public Trust ClearanceBachelor's Degree