The role
Wilkes & Liberty delivers Drupal CMS, Next.js frontend, and platform engineering work for federal, state/local government, and commercial clients. You will be accountable for engagement outcomes landing on scope, on schedule, and within the client's operating constraints — not for the multi-client product roadmap, which sits with product management.
What you will own
- The engagement plan: scope boundaries, milestones, dependency tracking, and change control.
- Acceptance and handoff: trace deliverables to acceptance criteria, capture client decisions as they are made, and close engagements with usable records and transferred ownership.
- Coordination of the delivery team, including engineering, QA, technical writing, security, and compliance, against the plan.
- Client-facing status reporting and escalation, so the client hears about a risk before they have to ask.
- Scope, schedule, and cost consequences surfaced to the accountable Wilkes & Liberty lead before they become commitments. This role does not carry unilateral contract authority.
- Discovery and requirements gathering directly on lean engagements, standing in for a separate Assessment Lead when the work does not warrant one.
- The engagement decision, risk, dependency, and acceptance record, so engineers and client stakeholders can act without reconstructing context.
What you bring
- Experience running client-facing technical engagements from scope through delivery and handoff.
- Comfort managing multiple concurrent workstreams and external dependencies.
- Clear communication with both technical delivery staff and non-technical client stakeholders.
- Judgment to escalate scope or schedule risk early rather than absorb it silently.
Helpful experience
- Federal or state/local engagement models, including task orders, subcontract delivery, and prime/sub relationships.
- Drupal or Next.js delivery environments, or comparable CMS/web platform engagements.
Equal opportunity and accommodations. Wilkes & Liberty considers qualified candidates without regard to protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.