Delivery Manager – Public Sector

Location: New York, NY

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale fixed-price/fixed-bid engagements for public sector clients.
• Manage application development, platform implementation, and application migration programs from initiation through go-live and hypercare.
• Ensure delivery excellence across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction metrics.
• Drive governance, project controls, risk mitigation, and escalation management across multiple workstreams.

• Serve as the executive point of contact for client stakeholders, delivery teams, and leadership.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with agency leadership, business stakeholders, and technology partners.
• Lead steering committee meetings, executive reporting, and operational reviews.
• Manage stakeholder expectations while ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution.

• Own delivery financials for fixed-fee projects, including forecasting, margin management, resource planning, and change controls.
• Ensure successful management of contracts, milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive accountability across distributed delivery teams and vendor ecosystems.

• Lead cross-functional teams across architecture, engineering, QA, business analysis, and operations.
• Mentor project managers and delivery leads while fostering a high-performance delivery culture.
• Promote delivery best practices, process optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• 15–22 years of overall IT experience with significant leadership experience in enterprise delivery management.
• Proven experience managing fixed-bid/fixed-fee engagements exceeding $2M from the vendor/consulting side.
• Strong background in IT Services & Consulting organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading:
  • Enterprise platform implementations
  • Application development initiatives
  • Application modernization and migration programs
• Experience managing complex public sector or government technology programs.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery models.
• Expertise in delivery governance, financial management, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• Public sector modernization programs
• Cloud migration and enterprise transformation initiatives
• Multi-vendor delivery environments
• Long-term strategic client engagements

• Executive presence with strong communication and client-facing skills
• High ownership mentality with strong operational discipline
• Ability to lead under pressure in highly visible environments
• Strong commercial acumen and delivery accountability
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to motivate distributed teams