Anika Systems is looking for a Federal Program Director to join our federal team. We are a fast-growing, woman-owned small business providing innovative IT solutions for federal government agencies. This position is mostly remote but will require regular client meetings in the DC Metro area. The candidate must be local to the DC Metro area.
Position Overview: The Federal Program Director at Anika Systems will lead and centralize program management activities to drive alignment with strategic business objectives. This role involves strategically optimizing resource allocation, coordinating cutting-edge technology integration across various programs, and ensuring successful project execution at scale across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Lead, manage, and oversee all aspects of multiple high-impact concurrent programs, including those with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
- Governance and Resource Optimization: Develop and implement robust governance structures to support strategic objectives and optimize resource allocation across diverse initiatives.
- Technology Integration and Coordination: Coordinate end-to-end integration and deployment efforts across programs and with commercial vendors, ensuring alignment with other programs and acquisitions to enhance efficiency and innovation.
- Comprehensive Program Management: Manage the contractual, financial, and technical dimensions of the program, ensuring compliance with federal standards and maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Planning: Engage with stakeholders to develop and align Program Strategic Objectives, Roadmap, and Implementation Plans with organizational goals.
- Business Development and Competitive Strategy: Lead proposal development activities, conduct competitive analysis, and formulate pricing strategies that position the company competitively in the marketplace.
- Talent Development: Mentor team members, fostering career advancement and performance improvement through targeted development initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Security Clearance: Active security clearance is a must.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field (Master’s preferred to bring advanced strategic insight).
- Experience: Minimum 8+ years of program/project management experience, with a strong background in leading complex, cross-functional teams and large-scale projects.
- Leading Teams: Experience leading multiple teams with various focuses such as Software Development, Communications, Training, Testing, Front Office, and Project Management. Experience leading large teams of at least 50 full-time employees for a single program.
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required to ensure best practices.
- Experience implementing and leading Agile and SAFe teams.
- Government Consulting Expertise (preferably with Big 4 Companies): Extensive experience in government consulting, with a deep understanding of the federal landscape and client needs.
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What We Do
Anika Systems is a SBA certified 8A and EDWOSB firm.
The pace at which the government is changing, there is a need for technology consulting companies that rise to those challenges by taking a fresh approach to problems, solutions that get to market faster, offer service that exceed the customers’ expectations and disrupt the status quo.
Anika Systems is an outcome-driven technology consulting firm that helps federal agencies solve business problems and enable them for the future, with services and solutions spanning Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation, IT Modernization, Application Development and Cloud Engineering.
We’re a team of thinkers, lifelong learners, makers, and doers that deeply understand the Federal government customers missions and goals. Our teams are deeply connected and bring their shared experiences and insights to each and every engagement.
With a Show me over Tell Me philosophy which is imbibed in our corporate DNA, we produce Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and delight our customers with solutions, not boring "solution decks". We accomplish these MVPs in our poly-cloud based Virtual Innovation Transformation Acceleration Lab (VITAL), wherein we synthesize ideas into a business concept (intake), select ideas (assess, evaluate, decide) and implement the selected ideas using the appropriate technology (fulfillment).
We specialize in building Agency-wide Centers of Excellence for Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation and Cloud Management.
