Senior Technical Data Governance Program Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology

Program Manager at GDIT leading data governance and modernization initiatives for the CMM program. Overseeing contract execution and strategic stakeholder engagement for federal courts across the US.

Posted 7/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,039 - $173,229 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in IT Management, focusing on technology solutions delivery, data governance strategy, and project management. Proficient in Agile Project Management techniques and capable of overseeing complex projects while ensuring alignment with strategic goals and compliance standards.

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IT ManagementProject Management Professional Certification (PMP)Data Governance StrategyAgile Project ManagementBig Data Cloud Solution Architecture

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Hard Skills

Technology Solutions DeliveryData GovernanceStandards DevelopmentChange ManagementBusiness IntelligenceAnalyticsCybersecurityRisk IdentificationIntegrated Master Schedule (IMS)Modernization Roadmap

Soft Skills

Customer-Facing SkillsStakeholder EngagementCommunication StrategyPerformance AccountabilityTeam Leadership

Tools & Technologies

Agile Reporting ToolsRAID LogSprint Burndown ChartsBacklog ReportingProject Management Artifacts

Certifications & Qualifications

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

Industry Keywords

Contract ExecutionTechnical StrategyArchitecture VisionCompliance StandardsOperational Support

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityPMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the single point of contact to oversee contract execution and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
Provides contract coordination, performance accountability, and strategic stakeholder engagement.
Operates with full authority to act for the Contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operations.
Serve as the senior technical authority across all development, architecture, integration, and modernization activities.
Define the program’s technical strategy, architecture vision, engineering standards, and modernization roadmap.
Ensure technical alignment with enterprise, security, and compliance standards.
Manage internal and external communications strategy, reporting, and coordination.
Responsible for the overall performance of the call order such as formulating work standards, assigning Contractor schedules and resources, reviewing performance, cost, and budget information; supervising Contractor personnel; and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to subordinates.
Ensure desired results by determining and implementing objectives and allocating appropriate resources.
Manage the development, operations, and implementation tasks using Agile Project Management techniques.
Create and maintain a roadmap, aligning tasks with organizational strategy, vision, and business outcomes for the CMM effort.
Facilitate project meetings, document meeting summaries, capture key decisions, and track action items.
Develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to include milestones, dependencies, and other details.
Provide biweekly Agile reports such as sprint reports, backlog reporting, sprint burndown charts, sprint retrospective reports, risk registry, etc.
Develop and update the Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) log, and other project management related artifacts.
Perform risk identification and mitigation.
Identify and communicate technical, operational, and business risks; develop mitigation strategies.
Provide transparent reporting, with regular updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, financials, and outcomes.
Provide the COR and government leads with analysis and research, of alternatives, and solution and design options related to the Case Management Modernization effort upon request.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years’ experience in IT Management including technology solutions delivery with emphasis on data governance strategy, standards development, implementation, operation support, and change management services to accelerate modernization efforts.
The Task Lead must possess bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
The Program Manager must possess a Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).
Expertise in overseeing teams dedicated to big data cloud solution architecture, cybersecurity, data management, business intelligence and analytics.
Excellent customer-facing skills with experience briefing senior executive leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.