Department Manager

Who is DS2?

DS2 provides full life-cycle software engineering services to DoW, federal, and commercial clients. We are committed to teamwork, a clear focus on the customer, and a belief that hiring talented individuals is essential to achieving our vision of being "Engineered to Exceed Expectations".

 Every day, DS2 teams meet client needs through problem-solving, teamwork, and technology-driven solutions. You can expect to work with committed engineers in an environment were working hard matters and playing hard does too.

Responsibilities — What you'll do:

• Drive successful delivery for assigned projects, including scope, schedule, cost, and risk.
• Own team financial performance: revenue, margin, project profitability, and utilization.
• Staff the work — forecast skills, allocate people, and shape hiring against the pipeline.
• Build proposals, manage scope changes, and keep risk visible before it becomes a surprise.
• Coach the team, support career growth, and keep retention and engagement high.
• Communicate effectively both internally and externally, providing certainty and confidence to clients, project teams, and internal leadership.
• Develop full-scale project plans, budgets, monitors, controls, and documents all project lifecycle phases.
• Develop proposals for new and existing projects, perform risk analysis, and proactively manage changes in scope, while managing risk.
• Be the client's trusted point of contact and keep internal leadership clear on status and decisions.

Required Qualifications — We need someone who:

• Has 10+ years of project or delivery management experience, including software work.
• Has led Agile teams and can plan and execute across resources, scope, schedule, cost, and change.
• Is comfortable operating with internal senior leadership teams.
• Follows through on tasks, ensuring successful completion.
• Can manage risk and explain the impact on cost, schedule, and contingency.
• Customer focused – develops and maintains strong relationships, continuously strives to exceed expectations and providing value add opportunities.
• Excellent client-facing and internal presentation skills.
• Proven planning and execution experience that includes resources, scope, scheduling, cost, change management, performance management and communication.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications — Bonus points if you:

• Hold a PMP or equivalent delivery certification.
• Have hands-on experience with Scrum, SAFe, or product management.
• Have led software delivery for DoW or federal clients.