| Location | Washington DC, DC |
We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.
Delivery manager accountable for scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk on a public-facing portal development task. Runs the Agile delivery cadence, manages the interface between the technical team and government stakeholders, and owns the deliverable and reporting obligations of the task order.
• Plan and manage task execution: work breakdown, staffing plan, schedule, dependencies, and burn against the labor-hour ceiling.
• Run Agile/SAFe ceremonies — backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning where applicable.
• Serve as primary delivery point of contact to the government project manager and product owner; manage expectations and escalations.
• Own risk and issue management: identification, mitigation planning, tracking, and transparent reporting.
• Ensure contract deliverables (project management plans, design documents, sprint reports, status reports) are produced on schedule and to quality standards.
• Manage quality control activities and enforce the quality control plan across the team.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies with platform, security, and enterprise architecture organizations.
• Track and report performance metrics, velocity, defect trends, and financial status to leadership.
• Maintain the Task Order Management Plan, resource/cost-loaded schedule, staffing plan, risk register, PM workbook, GFE/access tracking, financial burn projections, and recurring Government status/reporting obligations.
• Manage transition-in/out, staffing continuity, onboarding dependencies, Government approvals, deliverable due dates, and coordination across DOL and other contractor teams.
• Ensure all project artifacts, Jira/Confluence records, release documentation, and ICT deliverables are complete, traceable, and Section 508 compliant.
• 8+ years managing IT development projects, including 4+ years running Agile delivery teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing government or enterprise task orders with formal deliverables, CDRLs, and reporting requirements.
• Working command of Agile, Lean, and SAFe principles; able to lead ceremonies and coach the team.
• Strong risk, schedule, and financial management on labor-hour or T&M engagements.
• Proficiency with Jira/Confluence and Agile reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
• Technical fluency sufficient to challenge estimates and understand architectural trade-offs in web/cloud delivery.
• Experience managing federal deliverables, labor-hour/FFP performance, cost/schedule reporting, staffing, transition, risk, and subcontractor/multi-contractor coordination.
• Working knowledge of DOL-style Agile, release, change, configuration, security/ATO, and accessibility governance.
• PMP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or SAFe certification.
• Prior federal program management experience.
• Background in web modernization, CMS, or cloud migration programs.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's or PMP preferred.
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We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed. Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. Learn More.
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