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You will bring together people, technology, operations, financial management, and customer engagement to ensure teams deliver measurable outcomes while maintaining strong performance and stakeholder trust.\nWe know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.\nIf you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!\nWhat you’ll do:\nProgram Leadership: Provide overall leadership, direction, and accountability for the successful delivery of a large-scale IT program, ensuring technical, operational, contractual, and financial objectives align with organizational and mission priorities.\nCustomer Engagement: Serve as the primary interface with client and organizational leadership and key stakeholders, maintaining strong customer relationships, communicating program performance, and proactively addressing priorities, concerns, and emerging requirements.\nProgram Execution: Plan, coordinate, and oversee program activities across cloud engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, network operations, service delivery, and other technical workstreams to ensure integrated and successful execution.\nPerformance Management: Establish and monitor program performance metrics, service-level objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), deliverables, and milestones to ensure contractual requirements and customer expectations are achieved.\nFinancial Management: Manage program budgets, forecasts, staffing, resource allocation, and financial performance while identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency and maximize value to the customer.\nRisk & Issue Management: Identify and manage program risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities while developing mitigation strategies and ensuring timely escalation and resolution of critical challenges.\nWorkforce Management: Lead multidisciplinary teams of technical experts, engineers, architects, cybersecurity professionals, and operational personnel while ensuring appropriate staffing, performance, professional development, and workforce continuity.\nContract & Deliverable Management: Ensure contract requirements, deliverables, reporting obligations, and performance standards are met while maintaining alignment with applicable applicable policies, processes, and acquisition requirements.\nContinuous Improvement: Establish processes that improve service delivery, operational maturity, automation, quality, and customer satisfaction throughout the program lifecycle.\nExecutive Communications: Develop and deliver program reviews, executive briefings, performance reports, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to client and corporate leadership.\nWhat you’ll need to succeed:\nActive Secret security clearance.\nBachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.\n15+ years of experience managing complex IT, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, or digital modernization programs.\n8+ years of experience leading large-scale programs supporting large enterprise, public sector, or regulated customers.\nDemonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams across cloud, cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and IT operations.\nExperience managing program budgets, staffing plans, schedules, subcontractors, deliverables, performance metrics, risks, and contractual requirements.\nStrong understanding of contracting, acquisition, and delivery processes, performance management, and customer engagement.\nDemonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate technical and business activities across multiple organizations and stakeholders.\nExperience establishing and monitoring KPIs, SLAs, operational metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nStrong executive communication, leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with senior client and corporate leadership.\nProject Management Professional (PMP) certification.\nITIL, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent program/service management certification preferred.\nExperience leading cloud modernization, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, or enterprise IT transformation programs preferred.\nSALARY RANGE: $200,000.00 - $220,000.00\nThe salary range for this position is determined based on qualifications, skills, and relevant experience. The final salary offered will be determined based on several factors including: \nThe candidate's professional background and relevant work experience\nThe specific responsibilities of the role and organizational needs\nInternal equity and alignment with current team compensation\nThis role is also eligible for additional compensation, subject to the terms and policies of MetroStar, which may include:\nPerformance-based bonuses\nCompany-paid training and/or certifications\nReferral bonuses\nApplication Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled; candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible for full consideration.\nAdditional Compensation: This role may also be eligible for bonuses and/or additional incentives based on individual and company performance.\nBenefits: All full-time employees are eligible to participate in our benefits programs:\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance\n401(k) retirement plan with company match\nPaid time off (PTO) and holidays\nParental Leave and dependent care\nFlexible work arrangements\nProfessional development opportunities\nEmployee assistance and wellness programs\nLike we said, we are big fans of our people. That’s why we offer a generous benefits package, professional growth, and valuable time to recharge. Learn more about our company culture code and benefits. Plus, check out our accolades.\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.\n What we want you to know:\nIn compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.\n Not ready to apply now? \nSign up to join our newsletter here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7094,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Parental leave","Professional development","Retirement plans","Vision insurance","Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","Information Security","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","AI Consulting & Integration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T22:22:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.381,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":61,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":220000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/metrostar-sr-program-manager-iii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/metrostar-sr-program-manager-iii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T09:24:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14103,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":678241},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=678241"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmetrostar-sr-program-manager-iii"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmetrostar-sr-program-manager-iii"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmetrostar-sr-program-manager-iii"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/metrostar-sr-program-manager-iii\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmetrostar-sr-program-manager-iii"}]}