U.S. Citizenship and PublicTrust/ability to obtain is required.
Our client is seeking a Project Manager to join their team who will oversee the direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects while ensuring customer requirements are met and expectations exceeded.
Responsibilities:
Manage cloud software projects, micro-services, and DevSecOps within an Agile/Scrum framework.
Provide leadership to a cross-functional team while managing the customer relationship
Develop project charters, management plans, baselines, and sub-plans.
Track change requests, monitor work performance data, and update and brief on project progress, issues, and risks.
Develop high-level tasks using Agile methodologies: Consistently communicate with the product owner and other stakeholders, lead Scrum events, and create Scrum artifacts.
Collaborate with business analysts and technical writers to ensure comprehensive definition of business requirements.
Track deliverables using appropriate tools, update project scope, and define "done" requirements and deliverables.
Approve or reject changes, use change control tools, update project management plans, and prevent unnecessary changes.
Evaluate project results, prepare detailed summaries, incorporate lessons learned into meetings, and share information to improve future projects.
Utilize milestones to align project management with the software development life cycle
Ensure scope satisfaction, gain acceptance from the customer and sponsor, and obtain formal and final acceptance of project results
Requirements:
U.S. Citizenship is required.
This position is currently hybrid, at minimum two days a week.
Candidate must have or be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, or related field.
7 years of related Project Management experience, an active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.
Experience working directly with government agencies.
Possess excellent verbal, written, customer/government, and cross-cultural communication skills, coupled with high emotional intelligence and a passion for developing others.
Proficient in developing project management artifacts, including plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.
Experience with Agile methodologies using collaborative tools and project management issue tracking software such as Confluence, Jira, and Kanban.
Experience in process improvements through the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
Dedicated the past three years to defining organizational project cloud migration objectives and requirements that align with enterprise cloud vision and initiatives.