IT Program Manager (Defense Finance Systems)

Quick Facts

• Role: IT Program Manager (Defense Finance Systems)

• Focus: Life-cycle management for major DoD/DFAS AIS and MIS; technical leadership for enterprise hosting, endpoint services, and Azure cloud modernization

Description

Plans, directs, organizes, coordinates, and supervises IT life-cycle management activities for major DoD/DFAS AIS and MIS systems. Develops AIS program and budget requirements and ensures compliance with DoD LCM and financial management regulatory requirements while providing performance management, feedback, and grievance resolution. Serves as a technical expert for IT/ADP systems, database systems, and networks, and provides cloud-centered technical leadership for modernization and migration to secure, scalable cloud solutions primarily in Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Supervise employees involved in IT life-cycle management processes for major DoD/DFAS AIS and MIS

• Develop program and budget requirements, justifications, and documentation for LCM and financial management regulations

• Ensure performance standards; provide timely performance feedback and annual performance ratings

• Hear and resolve formal/informal grievances and complaints; refer unresolved items to leadership per DFAS policy

• Serve as technical expert for IT/ADP systems, database systems, and network systems; track policy/directive changes impacting operations

• Analyze existing methods and procedures to assess adequacy, clarity, and effectiveness

• Lead enterprise hosting and endpoint services with cloud-centered technical leadership

• Guide modernization and migration of legacy applications and infrastructure to Microsoft Azure solutions

• Manage teams delivering and sustaining enterprise cloud services

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Suitable for federal employment

• Registered for Selective Service (if applicable)

• Favorable suitability review and security clearance required; must maintain eligibility to remain employed

• Complete DoD 8140 Foundational Qualifications within 9 months and Residential Qualification within 12 months

• At least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to a GS-13-level role, including leadership of enterprise hosting and endpoint services with cloud-centered technical leadership

• Demonstrated ability to modernize/migrate legacy applications and infrastructure to secure, scalable cloud solutions primarily in Microsoft Azure, including cloud architecture, PaaS, SaaS, containerized platforms, and microservices

• Demonstrated ability to manage teams responsible for delivering and sustaining enterprise cloud services

• Federal resume must include detailed work scope and accomplishments (education is not substitutable for specialized experience at this grade)

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance

• Retirement benefits

• Paid time off

• Educational benefits

• Moving expenses paid