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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Deputy Program Manager w/active Top Secret clearance - **Company:** LMI - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $210,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Information Technology Operations, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, Zero Trust Network Access, SAP (Applications), Information Technology, Devsecops - **Published:** October 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18713882/Deputy-Program-Manager-W-Active-Top-Secret-Clearance-D-C-Washington ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Business, Program Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. * 8+ years of progressive experience managing complex federal programs or projects, including enterprise IT or mission-support delivery. * Demonstrated accountability for program cost, schedule, and performance, including budget oversight, schedule baselines, forecasting, and recovery planning. * Experience leading federal contract or task-order execution, customer reviews, staffing coordination, deliverable acceptance, and subcontractor oversight. * Experience developing and maintaining program management plans, integrated schedules, risk registers, and recurring financial/performance reports. * Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams and communicate program status and risks to senior Government and contractor stakeholders. * Experience supporting classified Government environments and meeting applicable personnel and facility security requirements. Nice to Have: * Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent program management credential. * Experience managing single-award IDIQ contracts and firm-fixed-price task orders. * Experience with Microsoft Project, financial management tools, performance dashboards, and earned value or comparable program controls. * Familiarity with ITIL-based service management, NIST Risk Management Framework, Zero Trust, and secure enterprise modernization. * Experience supporting SCIF facilities, SAP programs, transition activities, and multi-site IT operations. TS/SCI clearance is required for this position; candidates must also be eligible for Special Access Program (SAP) access as required by the Government. LMI will consider applicants with current TS/SCI security clearance. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. ## Description LMI is seeking a Program Manager to lead cost, schedule, and performance execution for a enterprise IT modernization, cybersecurity, operations, and sustainment contract across secure Government locations. The Program Manager will integrate task-order delivery, financial stewardship, staffing, technical execution, and quality assurance. Success requires disciplined program controls, proactive risk management, transparent reporting, and delivery of measurable outcomes without disruption to mission-critical services. Primary duties include: Own program execution across the base task order, ensuring authorized scope, staffing, milestones, deliverables, and performance commitments align with the task order's period of performance, funding, and contract requirements. * Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan (PMP), integrating scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, communications, and staffing management. * Build and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with critical milestones, dependencies, schedule drivers, and recovery actions; provide monthly baselines and updates as needed. * Manage task-order budgets, labor and subcontractor expenditures, forecasts, funding burn rates, and estimates to complete; identify variances early and implement corrective actions to protect cost objectives. * Coordinate task-order proposal inputs, including technical approach, staffing plans, execution schedules, and price/cost estimates; ensure work begins only after task-order issuance and required funding authorization. * Lead recurring Program Management Reviews (PMRs) with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and stakeholders; present progress, cost and schedule health, risks, decisions, and mitigation actions. * Prepare accurate Monthly Status Reports (MSRs) addressing accomplishments, planned activities, issues, risks, financial status, and funds expended versus remaining. * Establish and maintain a program risk register, track technical and programmatic risks, and drive mitigation, issue escalation, change control, and decision documentation. * Oversee quality assurance and performance measurement against contractual service-level agreements (SLAs), acceptable quality levels (AQLs), and Government surveillance expectations; drive timely remediation of deficiencies. * Integrate delivery leads across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, data, service desk/O&M, training, and transition activities. * Lead staffing and subcontractor coordination to maintain qualified, cleared resources and continuity of operations across geographically dispersed secure sites. * Plan and govern transition-in, transition-out, and modernization milestones while minimizing mission disruption and maintaining service availability. Foundational Skills * Task-order program management; contract scope, funding, and deliverable controls. * Integrated cost, schedule, and performance management; forecasting, variance analysis, and corrective action planning. * Integrated Master Schedule development, dependency management, milestone tracking, and executive reporting. * Program risk, issue, change, quality, and stakeholder management. * Performance-based service delivery, SLAs, KPIs, AQLs, and quality assurance surveillance. * Cross-functional leadership of enterprise IT modernization, cybersecurity, and managed operations. * Government customer engagement, PMRs, status reporting, and clear written and verbal communication.