Project / Program Manager

Description:

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking multiple Project/Program Managers to support Federal Government programs in Crystal City (Arlington), VA.

The ideal candidates will have experience managing or supporting large-scale software modernization projects, large infrastructure projects, and complex technical programs. This role will work closely with senior Program Managers to support planning, execution, tracking, reporting, customer coordination, and delivery management across multiple program and project activities.

The successful candidates must be highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and customer-focused. This person will help ensure that all deliverables, action items, schedules, risks, dependencies, and reporting requirements are tracked and completed accurately and on time.

This position is 100% onsite in Crystal City (Arlington), VA. There is no remote or hybrid option for this role.

Requirements:

Key Responsibilities

• Support Program Managers in the day-to-day management and execution of Federal Government programs.
• Assist with managing large software modernization and infrastructure-related projects.
• Track, manage, and follow up on program and project deliverables to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Support project planning, scheduling, coordination, status reporting, and documentation.
• Monitor action items, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and deadlines across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate with internal technical teams, subcontractors, stakeholders, and government customers.
• Help ensure program activities align with contractual requirements, customer expectations, and internal quality standards.
• Prepare and maintain program management artifacts, including meeting notes, schedules, trackers, reports, briefings, deliverable logs, and status updates.
• Support Agile and SAFe project activities, including sprint/release tracking, PI planning support, dependency tracking, and coordination across teams.
• Participate in customer meetings, prepare materials, capture decisions, and follow up on next steps.
• Communicate clearly and professionally with customers, internal teams, and leadership.
• Identify potential schedule, delivery, quality, or customer concerns and escalate them appropriately.
• Ensure deliverables are completed with strong attention to detail, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Support continuous improvement of program management processes, reporting, and project controls.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience in program management, project management, or direct support to Program Managers.
• Experience managing or supporting large-scale software modernization projects.
• Experience managing or supporting large infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting Federal Government programs or contracts.
• Understanding of SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or similar project delivery frameworks.
• Ability to coordinate complex technical programs with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, schedules, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and action items.
• Demonstrated ability to track deliverables and ensure follow-through to completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer-facing skills and ability to work professionally with government customers and stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented, dependable, proactive, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, onsite team environment.
• For security requirements, must be a U.S. Citizen and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Must be able to work 100% onsite in Crystal City (Arlington), VA with no remote or hybrid schedule.

Desired Skills

• Certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant, or other SAFe certification is a plus.
• PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, CSM, or other project/program management certification is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile Release Train, PI Planning, or scaled Agile environments.
• Experience supporting DoD or other Federal Government customers.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports, dashboards, briefings, and customer status updates.
• Experience supporting contract deliverables, performance metrics, SLAs, quality reviews, or customer reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar program management tools.
• Experience coordinating technical teams across software development, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, or IT modernization projects.
• Peoplesoft skill is a plus.

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be US Citizen.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.

Other Information:

• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.