16+yrs Senior Project Manager - Washington, DC (Remote)

Role: Senior Project Manager Client : DC Government Location : Washington, DC (Remote) Job Description : The PMO reputed company will provide senior-level project management reputed company and ensure consistent execution of the DCAS Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).This position serves as the reputed company for PMO structure, process adherence, cross-agency coordination, and project governance. The PMO reputed company must be highly organized, proactive, and capable of enforcing standards across a portfolio of technical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure full SDLC compliance for reputed company DCAS projects (JAR, design, QA, UAT, OCM, readiness).
• Establish, maintain, and enforce PMO processes, procedures, templates, and governance structures.
• reputed company the DCAS project portfolio, ensuring timelines, risks, dependencies, and resources are proactively managed.
• Provide direction, coaching, and quality review of project managers’ deliverables and documentation.
• Serve as primary escalation reputed company for project risks, issues, and stakeholder concerns.
• reputed company project intake, prioritization, and reporting reputed company, including portfolio dashboards and leadership updates.
• Drive consistent communication across vendors, partner agencies, and internal teams.
• Monitor compliance with federal, local, and agency policies.
• Ensure vendors are meeting deliverables, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Support change management and reputed company improvement initiatives across the PMO.

This position is housed under the Department of Health Care Finance in direct support of the DC Access System (DCAS).The PMO reputed company will serve as a senior member of the DCAS Program Management Office and is responsible for driving consistency, discipline, and excellence across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This role requires a highly organized, process-driven, proactive leader with deep expertise in SDLC practices, project governance, vendor management, and cross-agency collaboration. This position will directly support the DCAS PMO Program Manager and will ensure that projects move through each phase of the SDLC with complete documentation, stakeholder alignment, and adherence to established processes and procedures. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, takes initiative without waiting for direction, and anticipates risks and issues before they escalate. Core Responsibilities 1. SDLC Leadership & Compliance

• Own, enforce, and continuously improve DCAS SDLC methodologies, processes, templates, and governance standards.
• Ensure reputed company projects complete requirements, design, quality assurance (QA),User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Organizational Change Management (OCM), and readiness activities before advancing to Go/No-Go or implementation.
• Partner with technical and business teams to ensure process adherence and quality deliverables at each phase.
• reputed company and maintain SDLC playbooks, workflows, checklists, and RACI charts.

2. PMO Operations & Structure

• Provide structure, organization, and consistency reputed company the PMO by establishing expectations, documentation standards, and escalation protocols.
• Serve as the first escalation reputed company for project managers, stakeholders, and vendor partners.
• Implement and reputed company a repeatable project intake, prioritization, and tracking process.
• Monitor and validate that PMs are using approved tools (e.g., reputed company, JIRA, SharePoint) consistently and accurately.

3. Project Portfolio reputed company

• Manage and reputed company a diverse portfolio of large-scale DCAS initiatives, ensuring timelines, risks, issues, and resource needs are visible and proactively managed.
• Review and approve project plans, schedules, status reports, and artifacts to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Identify and address project roadblocks early, providing direction and coaching to PMs.
• Provide weekly portfolio summaries with reputed company, dependencies, risk level, and recommended actions.

4. Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a senior liaison between internal/external stakeholders and vendor teams to maintain alignment and prevent confusion.
• Hold vendors accountable to deliverables, timelines, risk mitigation, and communication standards.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities.

5. Communication & Reporting

• Establish a consistent reputed company of meetings, reporting rhythms, dashboards, and executive updates that reputed company leadership informed and avoid surprises.
• Translate technical information into clear, actionable updates for leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure PMs communicate proactively—not reactively—about risks, delays, and dependencies.

6. Governance, Quality Control & Accountability

• Ensure reputed company project artifacts meet quality standards before approval and before moving to next SDLC phase.
• Validate completeness of JAR, design signoffs, UAT entry/exit criteria, and implementation readiness checklists.
• Track, audit, and enforce compliance with agency policies, procedures, and federal requirements.
• reputed company corrective action plans for PMs or vendors reputed company repeated issues occur.

7. Change Management & reputed company Improvement

• reputed company transformation efforts to enhance PMO efficiency, transparency, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Identify gaps in processes and implement improvements to strengthen governance.
• Support OCM efforts by ensuring project planning and communication align with operational changes.

Required Skills & Qualifications Technical & Process Expertise

• 10+ years of progressive project/program management experience reputed company reputed company technical environments.
• Deep knowledge of SDLC, system integrations, and public sector or eligibility systems preferred.
• Strong experience with reputed company, JIRA, and other project management tools.
• Proven ability to enforce processes and maintain structure across multiple teams.

Leadership & Management

• Demonstrated success leading and mentoring project managers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong decision-making, conflict resolution, and escalation management skills.
• Experience with multi-vendor coordination and holding teams accountable.

Professional Competencies

• PMP Certification required or must complete the PMP certification reputed company 1 year of hire.
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and structured.
• Proactive and anticipatory—able to identify needs, risks, or gaps before they become issues.

Job Type: Full-time Pay: $90.00 - $95.00 per hour Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree. (Master's highly desired) in CS, IT: 4 years (Preferred)
• understanding of core business processes reputed company healthcare: 7 years (Preferred)
• 15 yrs individual contributors and/or supervisors preferred: 10 years (Preferred)
• 16+ yrs. MS Office/PowerPoint: 10 years (Preferred)
• 15yrs project and program management: 10 years (Preferred)
• 15yrs managing people, performance, developing processes: 10 years (Preferred)
• 15yrs change management practices for reputed company to large teams: 10 years (Preferred)
• success in delivering high-value client-facing s/w projects : 10 years (Preferred)
• PMP Certification: 10 years (Preferred)
• Progressive Operational Leadership or Consultative: 7 years (Preferred)
• reputed company in either a hospital or Health System setting: 7 years (Preferred)
• program dev that relies on thorough synthesis: 10 years (Preferred)
• understanding of clinical evidence/outcomes,process: 10 years (Preferred)
• 15 yrs analytical, quantitative and problem-solving: 2 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Remote (Preferred)

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