Senior Manager, Product Management

Responsibilities

• The Product Manager, Senior Manager provides direction across the full product lifecycle, ensuring that cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, cost optimized, and responsive to the needs of students, borrowers, institutions, and internal federal civilian agency stakeholders.
• Core Responsibilities
• Product Strategy & Mission Alignment: Develops and maintains a product vision and roadmap that supports the federal civilian agency's cloud modernization strategy, Zero Trust objectives, and enterprise architecture standards. Ensures product decisions align with the federal civilian agency's governance frameworks.
• Cloud Requirements & Backlog Management: Translates federal civilian agency mission needs, regulatory requirements, and user research into actionable cloud product requirements, epics, and user stories. Prioritizes the backlog using data driven methods that balance compliance, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Lifecycle Management & Compliance Oversight: Oversees the full lifecycle of cloud-based products, from discovery and design through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement. Ensures adherence to federal and the civilian agency's requirements including FISMA and FedRAMP security controls, Section 508 accessibility, Privacy Act and data protection standards, records management and data retention policies, and cloud cost management and optimization guidelines.
• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Defines and tracks KPIs related to cloud performance, availability, user experience, and cost. Uses analytics and operational data to drive iterative improvements and ensure service level compliance.
• Leadership and Collaboration
• Cross Functional Leadership: Leads multidisciplinary teams including cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, UX designers, data analysts, and operations personnel. Facilitates Agile ceremonies and promotes a culture of iterative delivery consistent with the federal civilian agency's Agile and DevSecOps practices.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serves as the primary liaison between federal civilian agency program offices, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, privacy, and external partners. Communicates product status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to the federal civilian agency's leadership and governance bodies.
• Interagency & Vendor Coordination: Coordinates with cloud service providers, integrators, and third-party vendors to ensure compliance with SLAs, FedRAMP requirements, and ED contractual obligations. Ensures alignment with federal digital service standards and OMB cloud first/cloud smart policies.
• Change & Adoption Management: Supports organizational readiness, training, and transition activities to ensure successful adoption of cloud capabilities. Ensures new features and services integrate seamlessly with the federal civilian agency's enterprise cloud environment and mission operations.
• Position could support or work across multiple enterprise-wide efforts within Peraton.

Requirements

• 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
• Bachelor's degree required in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred
• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and facilitate collaboration across government and contractor organizations.
• Strong communication skills for briefing senior leadership, documenting decisions, and engaging diverse stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud-based products or platforms within federal agencies or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures, shared responsibility models, and cloud security frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other FedRAMP authorized cloud environments.
• Ability t
• product strategy & mission alignment: develops and maintains a product vision and roadmap that supports the federal civilian agency's cloud modernization strategy, zero trust objectives, and enterprise architecture standards. ensures product decisions align with the federal civilian agency's governance frameworks.

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Job Location US

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