[Remote] Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mythics is an Oracle systems integrator, consulting firm, managed services provider, and federal government contractor. The company is seeking a Program Manager to serve as the prime contractor lead for a large-scale Federal Payroll Modernization program supporting the USDA National Finance Center, overseeing contract governance, subcontractors, risks, finances, customer engagement, and delivery transparency.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the single point of accountability for Mythics’ prime contractor responsibilities
- Protect Mythics from becoming a contractual pass-through while subcontractors control delivery decisions
- Ensure program execution aligns with contract scope, customer expectations, cost, schedule, quality, security, and risk posture
- Establish a disciplined governance model across Mythics, Deloitte, Oracle, USDA, and other stakeholders
- Provide leadership with timely visibility into delivery risks, financial exposure, customer issues, and subcontractor performance
- Serve as the primary Mythics program leader for contract execution and customer-facing governance
- Maintain accountability for contractual obligations, deliverables, acceptance, modifications, option periods, and performance commitments
- Ensure Deloitte and other subcontractors execute within the boundaries of the prime contract and subcontract agreements
- Coordinate closely with Contracts, Finance, Delivery, Sales, and Executive Leadership on program performance and contractual risk
- Establish and lead the program governance structure, including operating cadence, steering committee materials, executive briefings, decision logs, and status reporting
- Own program dashboards, KPIs, RAID reporting, issue escalation, action tracking, and integrated program health reviews
- Maintain audit-ready documentation for decisions, assumptions, risks, scope changes, customer communications, and deliverable acceptance
- Ensure Mythics maintains direct visibility into schedule, scope, financials, risks, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Manage prime/subcontractor operating model with Deloitte, Oracle, and other partners
- Hold subcontractors accountable for schedule, quality, staffing, deliverables, issue resolution, and customer commitments
- Review subcontractor status, assumptions, risks, and performance metrics on a regular cadence
- Escalate subcontractor performance issues early and coordinate corrective actions with leadership and contracts
- Own enterprise RAID process and ensure risks are visible, assigned, mitigated, and escalated before they impact performance
- Develop mitigation and recovery plans for contractual, financial, schedule, delivery, technical dependency, security, and customer relationship risks
- Identify where customer requirements, budget, timeline, and delivery approach create execution or financial exposure for Mythics
- Ensure proposal assumptions and delivery commitments are managed through formal change control after award
- Monitor program financial performance, burn rate, funding, backlog, profitability, invoices, and forecast accuracy
- Surface financial exposure related to scope creep, subcontractor delays, unmet assumptions, fixed-price commitments, or performance-based obligations
- Support deal reviews, funding reviews, contract modifications, and executive financial reporting
- Coordinate with Finance and Contracts to ensure invoicing, acceptance, and funding actions are aligned
- Serve as a trusted Mythics representative to USDA stakeholders and executive leadership
- Facilitate customer communications, expectation management, executive escalations, and governance meetings
- Ensure customer commitments are documented, approved, and tied to contract authority where required
- Support account growth while maintaining disciplined delivery and contract boundaries
- Maintain oversight of the integrated master schedule, milestone tracking, critical path, deliverable gates, and acceptance criteria
- Ensure quality control plans, program management plans, and governance artifacts are implemented and maintained
- Review technical partner deliverables for contractual completeness and customer readiness, without assuming technical ownership
- Drive readiness reviews for major milestones, demonstrations, testing gates, cutover, deployment, and hypercare
- Perform all other duties, as assigned
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field and/or equivalent experience
- * Clea**rance requirement:** US Citizen with the ability to pass a federal background investigation
- * 15+ years of experience leading large-scale Federal IT, enterprise transformation, or mission-critical modernization programs
- * 10+ years managing system integrator, subcontractor, or complex partner delivery relationships on federal programs exceeding $50M
- * Prior experience serving as Prime Contractor Program Manager, Program Director, or Senior Program Executive
- * Experience managing organizations or integrated delivery teams of 70+ professionals across multiple workstreams
- * Experience managing multiple subcontractors, delivery partners, and customer stakeholders in a prime/subcontractor environment
- * Experience with enterprise ERP, HCM, payroll modernization, shared services, cloud transformation, or large-scale SaaS implementation programs
- * Experience managing fixed-price, performance-based, BPA, IDIQ, task order, or other complex federal contracting models
- * Strong understanding of program financial management, scope management, schedule management, quality management, and enterprise risk management
- * Demonstrated ability to lead executive governance forums and communicate effectively with federal customers, subcontractors, and senior leadership
- * Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
- * Oracle Fusion Payroll
- * Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- * Federal payroll modernization
- * USDA National Finance Center
- * Defense Civilian Pay System
- * Shared service organizations
- * Federal financial management
- * COBOL legacy modernization
- * Mainframe migration
- * Agile delivery
- * DevSecOps
- * FedRAMP environments
- * Large-scale data conversion, testing, cutover, deployment, and hypercare governance
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision plans
- Premier 401k retirement plan with corporate matching and a 529 college saving plan
- Tax-advantaged Health Savings Account and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account options
- Legal Resources
- Generous work/life balance opportunities supported by a PTO bank, paid holidays, leave programs and additional flex time off
- Employee referral program
- Employee recognition, gift and reward program
- Tuition reimbursement for continuing education
- Remote or hybrid work options
- Engaging company events such as team building activities, annual awards and kick-off parties
- Health and wellness-focused activities
- Relaxation Spaces
- In-office gourmet coffee, tea, fresh fruit and healthy snacks
- Corporate GREEN approach – tracking energy consumption for reduction and purchasing only environmentally friendly products for our offices
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