Program Manager (NOAA)

McLean, VA
Full Time
Mid Level
Job Title: Program Manager (NOAA)

Company: BLN24

About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Position Overview:
The Program Manager (PM) will lead the strategic, technical, and operational execution of a complex NOAA-funded earth system modeling program under a multi-year IDIQ contract. The PM will coordinate multi-agency, multi-disciplinary teams to advance numerical weather prediction (NWP), support research-to-operations (R2O) pipelines, and manage the delivery of scalable, community-based software solutions.
This position is ideal for a senior leader with deep NOAA experience, expertise in managing high-performance computing (HPC) environments, cloud-based development, and public-facing community infrastructure in alignment with NOAA’s long-term modeling strategy.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Serve as the primary interface with NOAA’s Contracting Officer (CO), Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Program Office leadership, and cross-agency stakeholders. 
  • Lead day-to-day management of all task orders, ensuring contract compliance, schedule adherence, and high-quality deliverable execution. 
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that support community-driven modeling efforts and research-to-operations transitions. 
  • Manage the secure transition of key foundational functions from incumbent providers to ensure seamless continuity of service. 
  • Facilitate the maintenance and enhancement of public-facing software platforms, community user support environments, and cloud-based sandboxes. 
  • Coordinate technical teams to support community releases of software applications, system architecture updates, and machine learning (ML)-enabled model components. 
  • Implement a robust Agile project management framework to prioritize deliverables, integrate multi-disciplinary teams, and support rapid iteration cycles. 
  • Lead community engagement initiatives, including workshops, training events, and stakeholder feedback sessions to support collaborative governance and strategic alignment. 
  • Ensure full compliance with NOAA security standards, IT requirements, public access data policies, and community release best practices. 

Required Qualifications:
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. 
  • Minimum 8 years of program management experience supporting NOAA, NWS, NOAA Labs, or comparable federal scientific programs. 
  • Proven ability to lead large, multi-task order IDIQ contracts in the federal space. 
  • Demonstrated experience managing high-performance computing (HPC) environments, cloud-based scientific platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and open-source community software. 
  • Expertise in NOAA modeling frameworks such as the Unified Forecast System (UFS), JEDI, METPlus, or equivalent systems. 
  • Experience in community code management, governance participation, and public software release coordination. 

Preferred Qualifications 
  • Prior work with NOAA earth system modeling, numerical weather prediction, or related federal environmental data programs. 
  • Familiarity with NOAA’s cloud systems, RDHPC platforms, and data management frameworks. 
  • Experience integrating machine learning (ML) components into scientific workflows and supporting hybrid physics-based/ML modeling environments. 
  • Proficiency with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, and Spack-stack. 
 
Soft Skills 
  • Strong leadership and cross-agency coordination capabilities. 
  • Excellent risk management, resource allocation, and schedule management skills. 
  • Proven ability to support open science, community-driven development, and transparent public collaboration. 

What BLN24 brings to the Game:
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area.  We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.
  • Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.
BLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.
 
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