Program Managers, Deputy Program Managers, Senior Project Managers & Project Managers (CBP)

 

 

Title: Program Managers, Deputy Program Managers, Senior Project Managers & Project Managers (CBP) 

Clearance: Active CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one. Some position may require an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

Location: Reston, VA and Ashburn VA - Hybrid 3-5 days, on-call requirements

Salary Range: Pipeline posting, varies by position

Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. Delivering technical work into that environment is a different problem from delivering it into an office. You cannot take a checkpoint down on a Tuesday because the schedule says so. Change windows are narrow, some sites are hours from the nearest support, and a slipped date can mean an officer working without a tool they were told to expect.

 

We are hiring project and program managers to run delivery across that constraint. You will coordinate work spanning network, cloud, cybersecurity, and field deployment teams, manage commitments with the customer, and move work through federal change control and accreditation processes that set the pace whether or not your plan accounted for them.

 

One thing is worth knowing before you apply. This is not a role where the schedule is the job. The engineers here can build; what slows delivery is dependency, approval, access, and the gap between what a plan assumed about a site and what is true at that site. Managers who treat those as somebody else's problem do not do well here.

Objective 1: Turn commitments into schedules that survive contact with a 24/7 environment

 

Objective 2: Give the customer a picture of the program that matches what is happening

 

Objective 3: Remove the obstacles that keep engineers from delivering

We are hiring across several levels, and one of these roles is scoped by portfolio rather than by seniority. You do not need to pick one before applying. Tell us where you think you land and we will talk about it.

Minimum Qualifications

[Verbatim from the labor category, per level. These differ across Project Manager through Program Manager, including Deputy Program Manager. Note: a prior Agile Defense Deputy Program Manager performance profile exists and should be used as the baseline for that rung's qualifications and objectives once available, rather than drafted fresh. State the band honestly rather than publishing the highest bar. Required before publishing.]

Preferred Experience

We are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.

If you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.