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Director, Program Management

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Aug 2026

About the role

Job Title: Director, Program Management

Location: McLean, VA (On-Site)

Company: BLN24

About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Director, Program Management to lead federal client engagement, technical and program delivery, and internal PMO operations across a portfolio of government contracts and technology initiatives.
This leader will serve as a senior point of accountability for assigned federal clients and programs, with significant responsibility for leading integrated technical delivery across Agile development, Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and program management. The Director will ensure contractual commitments, financial targets, technical delivery objectives, system performance, and client expectations are consistently achieved while strengthening PMO governance and operational excellence.
The ideal candidate is a technically fluent program leader who combines federal contracting and client management experience with strong technical delivery, financial management, and PMO leadership. This individual must be equally comfortable engaging with federal executives and Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs), leading technical and program teams, managing complex delivery challenges, reviewing program financials, and briefing executive leadership on program performance and risk.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as the senior relationship and escalation point for assigned federal clients, building trusted relationships with government executives, CORs, Contracting Officers, and key stakeholders.
Lead integrated technical and program delivery across Agile development, O&M, and program management, ensuring alignment with client mission, contractual requirements, scope, schedule, budget, and performance objectives.
Partner with technical leads, architects, product owners, and Agile teams to manage technical roadmaps, releases, dependencies, risks, production issues, and delivery commitments.
Drive quality, system performance, and continuous process and performance improvement across development, O&M, and program management activities.
Ensure mission-essential systems and operations maintain required levels of availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and performance; drive corrective actions for delivery or operational issues.
Lead program roadmaps, change management, governance, and impact assessments, ensuring alignment among client priorities, technical delivery, delivery capacity, and stakeholder expectations.
Lead and develop program and project managers while partnering across Technology, Finance, Contracts, Talent/HR, and Growth to ensure successful program execution.
Establish and continuously improve internal PMO standards, governance, tools, reporting, and project management processes.
Oversee program financial and contract performance, including revenue, margin, budgets, forecasts, utilization, profitability, funding, staffing, and subcontractor management.
Develop program and account strategies aligned with federal client priorities; identify organic growth and recompete opportunities and support capture and proposal activities.
Provide executive visibility into program and technical delivery health, including milestones, releases, financial performance, client satisfaction, risks, dependencies, production performance, and corrective actions.