Responsibilities
Seeking an experienced and accomplished Technical Project Manager to be part of a team supporting the operations and maintenance of a large scale and world-wide Enterprise IT environment covering application hosting and support; enterprise services; and infrastructure services in the Washington D.C. metro area. This candidate will manage a large portfolio of projects. They will manage the work, artifacts, and technical decisions for projects in conjunction with Government customers. The Project Manager will serve the needs of a diverse team of operational engineers to implement superior levels of project management, tracking, and control.
Day to Day Work Responsibilities:
- Manage IT projects for the Department of State in coordination with customer managers
- Work closely with technical engineers to track work, identify and analyze risks, and strategize issue remediation
- Coordinate efforts of technical engineers to best use resources and accomplish program goals
- Work with the customer PMO office to track schedules on an Integrated Master Schedule across the enterprise
- Lead resource management and risk management across the enterprise, identifying and preventing resource constraints and analyzing the results of system changes
- Act as Delivery Manager or Scrum Master on Kanban teams, guiding technical resources through Scrum/Kanban practices
- Develop comprehensive, executive-level dashboards that provide essential project information, such as risks, issues, impediments, and projected completion dates
- Liaise with program stakeholders such as development teams, security officers, and PMO
- Work with appropriate technical and management resources to plan and schedule project timelines and milestones
- Develop best practices and tools for project support
- Manage process improvement activities in non-technical program areas
- Develop and deliver executive level presentations to senior government executives
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires US Citizenship and an active SECRET Government Security Clearance
- Bachelor’s degree and 8-10 years experience or Masters degree and 6-8 years experience or high school diploma/equivalent and 12 years relevant experience
- Experience working in project management for software development, database management, infrastructure, or network environment projects
- Experience with project methodologies and associated tools (SDLC, Agile, Kanban, and Jira or IBM ELM suite)
- Solid experience with MS Office Suites
- Experience with knowledge sharing tools such as SharePoint and Confluence
- PMI PMP required
- Experience providing operational task support in a highly demanding environment
- Ability to apply industry standards and best practices for operational excellence
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scrum Master and ITIL certifications are pluses
- Minimum 5 years of experience working as a technical Project Manager on Federal contracts a plus
Peraton Overview
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Target Salary Range
$135,000 – $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.