Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SMX Services & Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal Consultant to support a federal IT operations and modernization program for HHS, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, and the Strategic National Stockpile. The role provides executive direction for SAMS operations, data quality, and third-party logistics integration while advising program leaders on service continuity, governance, risks, and major decisions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic client advisor, provide executive leadership and maintain senior stakeholder relationships
- Set overall program direction with the Project Manager and align operations, modernization and integration priorities with the mission
- Advise on delivery risks, resources, governance and major decisions; help resolve issues requiring executive attention
- Review program performance, quality and corrective actions, and communicate clear recommendations to senior leaders
- Support transition readiness, continuity planning and leadership coordination during critical incidents or emergency activations
Skills
- Demonstrated senior-level experience advising clients and directing complex enterprise IT operations or transformation programs
- Ability to build executive relationships, communicate technical and operational trade-offs, and guide multidisciplinary teams
- Experience with governance, delivery oversight, risk management and service continuity
- Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- At least 10 years managing projects of similar scope, size and complexity
- Demonstrated management of project plans, schedules, resources, budgets, quality and milestone performance
- Strong customer communication and ability to coordinate technical teams and competing operational priorities
- Preferred: federal health or logistics programs; Oracle ERP or cloud environments; data governance, 3PL integration or regulated systems
- Federal IT delivery; Oracle ERP or cloud platforms; Agile/Scrum; data quality or 3PL/EDI integration; regulated healthcare systems; and disaster recovery or emergency response
Benefits
- Primarily remote
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