Sr. Project Manager

Our client, a respected Federal contractor is seeking a Sr. Project Manager (PM) for a new 5-year DHS/CBP contract in Sterling, VA.

The Sr PM will support the various border security efforts of CBP and may include biometric technologies such as facial recognition, RFID enabled documents, license plate reading technologies, data analytics, IoT, and other border security technologies.

Responsibilities
- Has domain system engineering experience in one or more areas including biometrics, RFID, license plate technologies, mobility, telecommunications concepts.
- Providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
- Establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives.
- Leading analysis of functional business requirements and design specifications for functional activities.
- Leading identification of problems and solutions within existing systems design.
- Leading analysis, design, and new construction of next generation IT hardware and software systems.
- Understanding of customer needs and the realities of commercially available IT/hardware products and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the architecture and engineering team and COTS products.
- Leading client interaction with senior management.
- Provide thought leadership and innovative solution design addressing the client-s unique mission needs.
- Perform full system analysis from technical implementation to business process management.
- Manage multiple solution offerings with long term vision for system enhancement, consolidation, and integration.
- Provide technical leadership in terms of delivery, release prioritization, and O&M for multiple systems.
- Provide technical input and solution design for proposals and contract modifications.
- Support engineering development projects (e.g., HW, SW, Agile).
- Serve as a primary technical interface with client related to program solutions.
- Provide strategic technical direction to client.
- Support related business development and proposal development activities.


Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DHS Public Trust
- Bachelor's Degree and 9+ Year's Experience or Masters and 7+ years of experience.
- Must have excellent technical and management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Agile project management skills are required.
- Certified Scrum Master is a plus, or ability to achieve.
- Ability to work in team environments across a diverse set of projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Proactive approach to problem solving.
- Delivery mindset
- PMP Certification is a plus, or ability to achieve.

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Location

Sterling, VA

Openings

1

Anticipated Start Date

Monday, November 30, 2026

Job Type

Contract

Anticipated Duration

4 months

Date Posted

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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