Senior Product Manager - Peraton

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Product Manager, Senior Manager to serve as the accountable leader for planning, delivering, and optimizing cloud-based products and services that supports a federal civilain agency's mission to provide reliable, secure, and user centered financial aid solutions. This role ensures that cloud capabilities, digital services, and modernization initiatives are aligned with the federal civilian agency’s strategic objectives, comply with policies, and meet all federal security, accessibility, and performance requirements.

The Product Manager, Senior Manager provides direction across the full product lifecycle, ensuring that cloud solutions are scalable, resilient, cost optimized, and responsive to the needs of students, borrowers, institutions, and internal federal civilian agency stakeholders.

This opportunity will support the modernization of a large-scale multi-tenant cloud ecosystem, providing critical enterprise-wide support for more than 40 million users in a complex stakeholder environment. This position requires senior level leadership skills combined with modern cloud and industry leading technical capabilities including product development, strict security compliance, latest technology cloud solutions, reliable application delivery with SaaS and Artificial Intelligence integrations and rapid continuous delivery.

Core Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Mission Alignment: Develops and maintains a product vision and roadmap that supports the federal civilian agency’s cloud modernization strategy, Zero Trust objectives, and enterprise architecture standards. Ensures product decisions align with the federal civilian agency’s governance frameworks.
• Cloud Requirements & Backlog Management: Translates federal civilian agency mission needs, regulatory requirements, and user research into actionable cloud product requirements, epics, and user stories. Prioritizes the backlog using data driven methods that balance compliance, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Lifecycle Management & Compliance Oversight: Oversees the full lifecycle of cloud-based products, from discovery and design through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement. Ensures adherence to federal and the civilian agency’s requirements including FISMA and FedRAMP security controls, Section 508 accessibility, Privacy Act and data protection standards, records management and data retention policies, and cloud cost management and optimization guidelines.
• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Defines and tracks KPIs related to cloud performance, availability, user experience, and cost. Uses analytics and operational data to drive iterative improvements and ensure service level compliance.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Cross Functional Leadership: Leads multidisciplinary teams including cloud eng