Program Manager

About Concept Plus

Concept Plus is a mission-focused technology solutions provider that transforms IT concepts into impactful solutions for federal agencies. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, we bring the agility, responsiveness, and customer intimacy of a small business combined with the quality and infrastructure of a larger firm.

Recognized as an award-winning Oracle partner, we have delivered innovative solutions across Defense, Intelligence, Civilian, Health IT, and Tribal sectors. Our highly certified experts build systems that drive efficiency, accelerate modernization, and ensure mission outcomes with certainty.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, paid life insurance, paid time off, 11 paid holidays, performance bonuses, tuition reimbursement, unlimited training, and the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative, flexible, and innovative environment.

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About the role

Concept Plus is seeking a Program Manager to provide overall leadership, direction, and management across all aspects of a client project, enterprise planning and execution capability. This role is responsible for ensuring the project meets all costs, schedule, and performance objectives while maintaining alignment with client operational priorities.

What you'll do

• Provide day-to-day program oversight, including schedule management, resource allocation, budget tracking, and coordination of monthly software releases.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Air Force stakeholders, end users, and corporate leadership, delivering clear, concise, and timely program status updates to senior leadership on both the client and corporate side.
• Lead risk identification, analysis, and mitigation planning to ensure program continuity and readiness.
• Oversee requirements intake, refinement, prioritization, and alignment with warfighter needs in coordination with Air Force program offices.
• Manage cross-functional development, testing, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to ensure successful delivery of capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with all DoD and Air Force policies, including cybersecurity requirements, RMF processes, configuration management, and documentation standards.
• Monitor contractor, vendor, and subcontractor performance to ensure adherence to program deliverables and quality standards.
• Facilitate Agile program activities, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, release planning, and retrospectives.
• Lead program reviews, technical exchanges, Integrated Product Team (IPT) meetings, and other key engagements with government and internal stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain program roadmaps, long-term modernization strategies, and release planning documentation.
• Prepare and manage contract deliverables, reports, and required program documentation for government submission.
• Support financial planning activities, including forecasting, cost estimates, burn rate tracking, and resource planning.
• Maintain and communicate program performance metrics and dashboards to ensure transparency across all stakeholders.
• Conduct annual performance reviews for all direct reports.
• Approve timesheets for internal staff and subcontractor personnel.
• Manage procurement and renewal of required licenses.
• Coordinate, authorize, and facilitate conference travel.
• Review and approve expense reports in accordance with company policy.

Required Qualifications

• US Citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in business, management, information systems, computer science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in program or project management supporting DoD or federal IT programs.
• Proven experience managing cost, schedule, performance, and risk for complex software or enterprise-level programs.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience leading Agile development teams.
• Demonstrated ability to brief senior government and corporate leadership, both verbally and in written form.
• Experience managing cross-functional technical teams, including development, testing, cybersecurity, and infrastructure.
• Familiarity with DoD and Air Force acquisition processes, program governance, and documentation requirements.
• Knowledge of RMF, ATO processes, and cybersecurity compliance within the DoD environment.
• Ability to manage budgets, track financials, and support forecasting and resource planning.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proficiency with collaboration and program management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Teams).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or SAFe certifications.
• Prior experience working with Air Force planning, readiness, or execution systems.
• Experience in contractor/industry roles supporting Air Force or Joint programs.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools, capabilities, and responsible-use best practices to support program modernization and workflow improvements.
• Ability to assess and integrate AI-enabled solutions into program processes where appropriate.
• Strong foundational understanding of software development concepts, including release management, version control, branching strategies, and software deployment workflows.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams to understand impacts of code changes, release schedules, and environment dependencies.

Concept Plus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, we will give your application full consideration without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.