Solutions & Consulting

Engagement / Project Manager

Own scope, schedule, risk, and delivery control for Wilkes & Liberty client engagements — the accountable lead keeping federal, state/local, and commercial delivery on track.
Location
United States — remote
Work schedule
Full-time
Engagement
Contract (1099)
Appointment term
Ongoing
Seniority
Senior
Department
Solutions & Consulting
Remote policy
Remote
Hiring status
Open
Applications close
October 31, 2026
Eligible work jurisdictions
United States
Work eligibility
Authorized to work in the U.S.; no sponsorship available
Clearance requirement
Must be eligible to obtain
Clearance level
No clearance required
Expected travel
0%
Veteran friendly
Yes

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.

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