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[Remote] Project Manager – Senior
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. North Point Technology is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of a federal public-facing website modernization and sustainment program. The role owns schedule, scope, risk, and quality, serves as the primary client interface, and directs technical teams and subcontractors through launch and ongoing operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the master schedule, critical path, staffing assumptions, and dependencies, and drive on-time delivery against fixed go-live dates
- Serve as primary client and stakeholder interface and maintain a collaborative working relationship throughout the engagement
- Deliver and maintain the project plan and a comprehensive project timeline
- Produce weekly status reports covering accomplishments, upcoming work, risks and issues, and items requiring client decision
- Lead the lifecycle: discovery, design and mockup approval, build, legacy content migration, user acceptance testing, and controlled production cutover with minimal downtime
- Coordinate security accreditation activities (RMF/ATO) with client security personnel
- Oversee Section 508, 21st Century IDEA, and WCAG accessibility compliance verification and remediation prior to go-live
- Manage subcontractor and vendor performance, including cloud and web delivery partners and independent third-party test providers
- Manage operations and sustainment, including defined operational service levels, high-availability uptime, security monitoring, administrator training, and documentation
- Manage scope, risk, quality, and staffing and retention across the period of performance
Skills
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on IT project management experience specifically overseeing website development projects. Hard requirement; general IT or PMO experience without direct website-development project leadership does not qualify
- Demonstrated ability to plan and execute to a defined plan, managing schedule, scope, and risk on technically complex, deadline-driven efforts
- Demonstrated strengths in strategic thinking, multitasking, conflict management, and time management
- Strong oral and written communication skills, fluent in English (speak, read, write), with experience interacting with and briefing senior leaders
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery teams and subcontractors to defined milestones and quality standards
- U.S. citizenship
- Prior federal government project experience
- Delivery experience in Microsoft Azure Government or another FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment
- WordPress or comparable enterprise CMS delivery; Section 508 / WCAG / 21st Century IDEA accessibility compliance
- RMF/ATO coordination (SSP, POA&M, working with an ISSO and Authorizing Official) and FIPS-199 Moderate systems
- Delivering firm-fixed-price, fixed-deadline web builds on schedule; managing subcontractors, vendors, and independent test providers
- AI/chatbot integration, legacy content migration, and enterprise identity integration (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID)
- PMP or equivalent project management certification
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, IT management, or a related field from an accredited institution
Benefits
- Excellent compensation
- Benefits
- Flexible work-life balance
- Close-knit and open atmosphere where the owners are always directly available to team members
- Long-term projects
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