Engagement Manager (Senior) | Remote Contract… at Hikinex · Maryland

📍 Location: Fully Remote (Maryland, U.S.) 📄 Employment Type: Contract 🚀 Start Date: Immediate 💲 Compensation: TBD — based on skills and experience

Important Screening Requirements

• Due to client and clearance requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) and able to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Candidates must also be willing to:

• Undergo fingerprinting as part of the onboarding process
• Successfully complete a government background investigation (CJIS-type clearance)

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Engagement Manager to provide overall leadership and accountability for a large-scale application modernization and cloud transformation program. This individual will serve as the primary interface to AWS Professional Services and State of Maryland stakeholders, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, risk management, and cross-workstream coordination.

This role is responsible for ensuring successful delivery across multiple workstreams while maintaining strong executive stakeholder engagement and commercial oversight.

Key Responsibilities

• Own overall engagement scope, schedule, budget, and delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams
• Serve as the primary point of contact for AWS Professional Services and State of Maryland sponsors
• Manage engagement governance, reporting, and executive communications
• Maintain and actively manage the program risk register
• Oversee change control processes and ensure alignment with approved Levels of Effort (LOE)
• Coordinate cross-workstream dependencies, including database conversion and application modernization activities
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate delivery risks and blockers
• Drive stakeholder alignment and decision-making throughout the engagement lifecycle
• Ensure delivery milestones, quality standards, and client expectations are consistently met

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex software modernization, digital transformation, or cloud migration programs
• Proven success managing large-scale, multi-team engagements valued at $3M+ or greater
• Experience delivering projects within public sector, state government, or highly regulated environments
• Strong knowledge of project financials, Statements of Work (SOWs), Levels of Effort (LOEs), and change management processes
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management and program governance
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
• Sufficient technical understanding to evaluate estimates and delivery approaches related to:
  • .NET application modernization
  • Database migration and conversion initiatives
  • Cross-platform dependency management

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working with AWS Professional Services (ProServe), AWS Transformation Framework (ATF), or AWS partner-led engagements
• PMP certification or equivalent project/program management credential
• Experience leading cloud modernization programs involving multiple technical workstreams
• Familiarity with large-scale government technology transformation initiatives

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a seasoned program leader who can balance executive stakeholder management, commercial oversight, risk mitigation, and technical delivery coordination while successfully driving complex cloud modernization initiatives from planning through execution.