
Senior Program Manager – Team Lead
RELX
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Philadelphia • Maryland • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $115,400 - $192,300 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead, coach, and develop program and project managers delivering federal identity programs.
- Build a high-performing team capable of managing multiple agencies and concurrent workstreams.
- Provide structure, accountability, and delivery maturity across the portfolio.
- Oversee delivery from contract award through deployment and operational sustainment.
- Establish and enforce repeatable delivery frameworks, governance cadences, and structured execution methodologies.
- Ensure delivery excellence, contract alignment, and compliance across all programs.
- Oversee program documentation including plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, governance artifacts, compliance deliverables, and contract-required submissions.
- Ensure documentation is accurate, traceable, audit-ready, and aligned with federal standards.
- Lead risk mapping, mitigation planning, and dependency management.
- Ensure adherence to security controls and federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, CJIS, OMB).
- Drive technical accountability across engineering, product, security, and operations.
- Translate federal contract requirements into delivery strategies, milestones, KPIs, and reporting structures.
- Manage a multi-agency portfolio exceeding $45M+.
- Align with federal fiscal calendars, contracting vehicles, and funding cycles.
- Partner with senior federal executives, CORs, contracting officers, PMOs, and partner teams.
- Provide executive briefings, delivery updates, risk assessments, and performance reporting.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive project/program management experience leading complex federal technology or identity programs.
- 6–7+ years of people leadership experience overseeing program/project managers.
- Experience managing federal portfolios >$45M across multiple agencies.
- Proven success enforcing program governance and compliance-driven delivery.
- Prior experience with identity programs, fraud mitigation, or public-sector technology strongly preferred.
- Technical: Federal identity solutions, documentation discipline, risk mapping, compliance frameworks, program governance, and lifecycle planning.
- Leadership: Leading and developing managers, executive-level communication, portfolio oversight, conflict resolution, and driving accountability.
- Strategic thinking across multi-agency programs.
- High documentation accuracy and traceability.
- Excellent judgment, operational rigor, and disciplined follow-through.
- Ability to influence at executive and agency levels.
- Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent experience in federal program management, technology delivery, public administration, or related field.
- Preferred: PMP certification, PgMP
Benefits
- Country specific benefits
- Annual incentive bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementprogram managementfederal identity solutionsrisk mappingcompliance frameworksprogram governancelifecycle planningdocumentation disciplinedelivery strategiesKPI reporting
Soft Skills
leadershipexecutive-level communicationconflict resolutionstrategic thinkinginfluenceoperational rigorjudgmentaccountabilityteam developmentdelivery excellence
Certifications
PMPPgMP