Senior Project Manager

• Lead a single integrated software development team operating in an agile manner, as.
• Establish sprint cadence, release schedule, and ceremonies in coordination with the FMCSA Project Manager and Product Owner during the two-week Discovery task.
• Run sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement against the prioritized Product Backlog.
• Track velocity, burndown, and release health, and surface trade-offs to the COR when scope, schedule, or quality come into tension.

• Lead in-person Discovery sessions with FMCSA stakeholders to capture existing functionality and outcomes.
• Manage and refine epics, features, and user stories in FMCSA's JIRA requirements repository.
• Own delivery of the Story Map, Release Plan, and Data Migration Plan (where applicable) as deliverables.
• Coordinate two-week discovery and backlog grooming sessions for each Application Onboarding and Sustainment option exercise.

• Serve as the contractor's single point of contact to the COR and the Government Project Manager.
• Coordinate with the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (MC-I) and Enterprise Information Technology Shared Service (EITSS) at DOT on platform infrastructure dependencies.
• Facilitate review of FMCSA-furnished documentation and capture decisions, action items, and risks in writing.
• Be available to report on-site at DOT Headquarters within one business day of Government request.

• Maintain a project risk register and drive mitigation actions before risks affect sprint commitments.
• Lead change management, defect triage, and UAT support across the Application Development task.
• Coordinate performance testing and application optimization activities so end-to-end response times meet industry benchmarks.
• Own the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) commitments and corrective action plans introduced in the Performance Work Statement.

• Deliver the Monthly Progress Report no later than the seventh day of the following month.7.
• Own delivery acceptance for Sprint Demos, Product Increments, User Guide, and the Detailed Technical Design Document.
• Maintain a current Government-furnished equipment inventory and attach it to each Monthly Progress Report.
• Coordinate Non-Disclosure Statement collection from all contractor and subcontractor staff before assignment.

• Ensure all team members complete annual security awareness training and meet personnel security requirements under DOT Order 1630.2B.
• Coordinate Sensitive PII handling, FIPS 140-2 encryption, and one-hour breach reporting obligations.
• Support the Security Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process to obtain ATO.
• Sign Certifications of Data Removal at task termination.

• Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Equivalent combinations of professional certifications and demonstrated federal program management experience will be considered in place of a degree.

• Ten or more years of professional IT project management experience, with a minimum of five years leading federal IT modernization or application development efforts.
• Demonstrated experience leading agile software delivery teams using Scrum or SAFe, including managing Product Backlogs and Release Plans in JIRA.
• Demonstrated experience managing low-code or Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT) platform implementations (for example, Appian, Pega, ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform, OutSystems, Mendix, or Unqork).
• Experience leading fixed-price task orders with multiple option periods and concurrent task streams.
• Experience interfacing with federal COR, Contracting Officer, and Product Owner stakeholders, and managing fixed-price delivery against published QASP standards.

• Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and Azure DevOps for backlog, story, and release management.
• Familiarity with AWS-hosted application environments, given FMCSA's AWS VPC footprint.
• Working knowledge of FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-2, and DOT Order 1351.37 obligations applicable to FMCSA contractors.
• Familiarity with DOT MyAccess and Login.gov authentication patterns.
• Working knowledge of the Security Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and ATO documentation requirements.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist, or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
• ITIL Foundation v3 or v4.
• Platform-specific certification on the proposed BOAT platform (for example, Appian Certified Lead Developer, Pega Certified Lead System Architect, ServiceNow CSA, or Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect).

• Must pass and maintain the background investigation required by DOT and FMCSA for contractor personnel with access to Sensitive PII, consistent with DOT Order 1630.2B.
• Completion of annual DOT Security Awareness Training and any FMCSA-mandated specialized training.
• U.S. citizenship may be required, consistent with FMCSA contractor policy and access to Sensitive PII systems.
• Execution of the Non-Disclosure Statement (NDS) before assignment.

• $124,000 - $152,000 commensurate with background and experience.

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