Ascension LLC is seeking a highly experienced Program Manager / Senior Project Manager to support a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Military Programs Business Intelligence (MPBI) Data Analytics Support effort. This position will serve as the primary contractor management lead responsible for overseeing contract performance, coordinating technical and functional workstreams, managing Agile delivery activities, and ensuring that all work is completed on schedule, within scope, within budget, and in accordance with Government expectations.

The ideal candidate is a disciplined, organized, and mission-focused project leader with demonstrated experience managing data analytics, reporting, dashboard, documentation, application support, and business intelligence initiatives in a federal environment. This individual must be comfortable leading remote teams, managing multiple priorities, working in an Agile delivery environment, and maintaining clear communication with Government stakeholders, technical staff, analysts, developers, and end users.

This role is important to the success of the MPBI effort because the Program Manager will help ensure that the contractor team delivers reliable support for MPBI dashboards, reports, data products, documentation, help desk requests, application updates, and recurring program management deliverables. The Program Manager will also be responsible for maintaining delivery discipline across Agile sprints, tracking risks and issues, supporting capacity planning, coordinating knowledge transfer, and ensuring the team remains aligned to the Government’s mission and priorities.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Program Manager will provide overall management, coordination, and quality oversight for contractor personnel supporting USACE MPBI products and services. The role will require hands-on leadership in Agile project management, including sprint planning, backlog management, story point tracking, roadmap maintenance, risk management, capacity planning, and recurring status reporting. The candidate should have experience using Azure DevOps or similar Application Lifecycle Management tools to manage user stories, bugs, tasks, dashboards, velocity, burndown metrics, and release activities.

The successful candidate must be a self-driven and detail-oriented leader who can operate effectively in a remote, non-personal services environment. The Program Manager must be able to anticipate problems, construct practical solutions, manage multiple workstreams, enforce documentation and quality expectations, and support timely communication among Ascension, teaming partners, and Government stakeholders.

The role requires strong understanding of PMBOK-based project management practices, Agile/Scrum methods, technical documentation, risk management, quality control, and federal contract deliverable management. Familiarity with Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, SQL-based reporting environments, data analytics operations, and help desk support processes is strongly preferred.

Expected Day-to-Day and Recurring Activities

• Serve as the primary contractor point of contact for Ascension, teaming partners, and Government stakeholders.
• Manage overall contract performance, including quality, schedule, budget, scope, staffing, risks, issues, and deliverables.
• Lead Agile project management activities using Azure DevOps or similar ALM tools.
• Maintain Agile boards, user stories, bugs, tasks, sprint backlogs, story point estimates, sprint dashboards, and delivery metrics.
• Coordinate daily standups, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, backlog refinement sessions, and quarterly planning activities.
• Prepare and manage the Project Management Plan, Phase-in Plan, Phase-out Transition Plan, Monthly Status Reports, Roadmap, Risk Management Plan, Cross-Training Plan, Capacity Planning Reports, and Knowledge Transfer Documentation.
• Track story point commitments, sprint progress, team capacity, backlog health, work item status, and delivery performance.
• Monitor help desk and support ticket activity to ensure requests are acknowledged and resolved in accordance with Government-defined priorities and sprint expectations.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Developers, and SMEs to ensure requirements, documentation, development, testing, training, and user support activities are properly aligned.
• Review functional requirements, user documentation, training materials, software architecture documentation, source code delivery packages, and meeting materials for completeness and quality.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain accurate project records, action item logs, decision logs, risk registers, meeting minutes, agendas, and briefing materials.
• Support cross-training and knowledge transfer activities to reduce skill silos and ensure continuity of operations.
• Ensure work products comply with contract requirements, Government standards, documentation templates, branding requirements, and quality expectations.
• Communicate project status, upcoming priorities, completed deliverables, risks, and recommended corrective actions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Ascension leadership on staffing, performance, customer satisfaction, issue escalation, and delivery readiness.