Sr. Program Manager​/Team Lead

About the Business

Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Government division, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about Lexis Nexis Risk at the link below.

Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Government partners with federal agencies to deliver secure, compliant, and mission‑critical identity solutions. Our team is dedicated to enabling trust in government programs through advanced identity verification, fraud mitigation, and secure data workflows. We operate in a highly regulated environment, ensuring adherence to federal standards while driving innovation and operational excellence.

The Senior Program Manager/Team Lead will lead delivery across a portfolio of federal identity programs, including identity verification, proofing, credentialing, fraud mitigation, and secure data solutions. This is a leadership role responsible for managing and developing program and project managers who execute delivery across multiple agencies. The position requires a strategic leader with deep federal program management expertise, strong governance discipline, and the ability to enforce compliance and documentation standards at an executive level.

• Lead, coach, and develop program and project managers delivering federal identity programs.
• Build a high‑performing team capable of managing multiple agencies and concurrent work streams.
• Provide structure, accountability, and delivery maturity across the portfolio.
• Oversee delivery from contract award through deployment and operational sustainment.
• Establish and enforce repeatable delivery frameworks, governance cadences, and structured execution methodologies.
• Ensure delivery excellence, contract alignment, and compliance across all programs.
• Oversee program documentation including plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, governance artifacts, compliance deliverables, and contract‑required submissions.
• Ensure documentation is accurate, traceable, audit‑ready, and aligned with federal standards.
• Lead risk mapping, mitigation planning, and dependency management.
• Ensure adherence to security controls and federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, CJIS, OMB).
• Drive technical accountability across engineering, product, security, and operations.
• Translate federal contract requirements into delivery strategies, milestones, KPIs, and reporting structures.
• Manage a multi‑agency portfolio exceeding $45M+.
• Align with federal fiscal calendars, contracting vehicles, and funding cycles.
• Partner with senior federal executives, CORs, contracting officers, PMOs, and partner teams.
• Provide executive briefings, delivery updates, risk assessments, and performance reporting.

• 10+ years of progressive project/program management experience leading complex federal technology or identity programs.
• 6–7+ years of people leadership experience overseeing program/project managers.
• Experience managing federal portfolios >$45M across multiple agencies.
• Proven success enforcing program governance and compliance‑driven delivery.
• Prior experience with identity programs, fraud mitigation, or public‑sector technology strongly preferred.
• Technical:
  Federal identity solutions, documentation discipline, risk mapping, compliance frameworks, program governance, and lifecycle planning.
• Leadership:
  Leading and developing managers, executive‑level communication, portfolio oversight, conflict resolution, and driving accountability.
• Strategic thinking across multi‑agency programs.
• High documentation accuracy and traceability.
• Excellent judgment, operational rigor, and disciplined follow‑through.
• Ability to influence at executive and agency levels.
• Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent experience in federal program management, technology delivery, public administration, or related field.
• Preferred: PMP certification, PgMP.
• Added Value: FAC‑P/PM, FedRAMP/NIST or security‑related training.