Team US Advisors is seeking an IT Project Manager to join our team supporting the Department of Homeland Security in the national captial region! You will be responsible for the management and delivery of technology related projects for our client across various workstreams: planning, organizing, directing, controlling, staffing, and reporting status, deliverables, and schedules to the Government.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and implement large IT initiatives for our client
- Direct and lead the work of technical staff
- Evaluate new IT strategies and procedures
- Ensure deadlines and cost targets are met
- Maintain required project documentation
- Serve as a liaison between business and technical aspects of projects
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to obtain or an existing DHS Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor’s degree with twelve (12) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise software development environment.
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Certified Scrum Master certification
- At least eight (8) years of Project Management experience in an Agile Software Development environment, including methodologies related to software lifecycle management.
- Experience with requirements tools and tracking such as JIRA.
- Experience leading multiple teams supporting multiple applications with independent release schedules.
- Experience defining all program actvities and milestones required to meet objectives and deliverables, properly sequencing tasks and estimating effort with program team members doing the work, determining the critical path, and leveling the project schedule.
- Experience monitoring program execution to identify obstacles and deviations from plan and takes correcrive action as needed.
- Experience conducting continuous risk assessment and management including developing measures to reduce risk in program execution.
- Experience developing metrics and reports for tracking program execution.
- Experience with contract management, budgeting, and resource allocation, including management of Subcontractor personnel.
- Proficient in development of plans, assigning tasks, monitoring performance, communicating progress, resolving conflicts, and escalating issues.
- Experience with all aspects of configuration management planning including configurarion identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, configuration documentation.