IT Program Manager

5ipro$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 11+ years of experience in IT project management.
  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant discipline preferred.
  • PMP, Agile, ITIL, or similar certifications are preferred.
  • Knowledge of development system life cycle and applicable methodologies.
  • Strong understanding of emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Direct activities to meet organizational objectives and serve as a liaison for coordination.
  • Apply project management models like Agile, Waterfall, or Spiral to manage efforts.
  • Formulate and maintain performance-based tasking leveraging program control systems.
  • Provide technical and financial reports to document project progress.
  • Manage project schedules, forecasts, and ensure issues are resolved promptly.
  • Lead and guide program management staff and identify resource needs with Talent Acquisition.
  • Communicate deadlines and objectives to all enterprise stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment promoting innovation and growth.
  • Opportunities for professional development and certifications.
  • Direct involvement in high-impact government projects.
  • Network building with senior officers and technical resources.
  • Potential for creating and managing subcontract resources.
Full Job Description
The right candidate will have a minimum of 11 years of experience. A Bachelor's or Master's Degree is preferred in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills may include the following...

IT Project Manager will:
Direct activities to meet the sponsor's organizational work objectives and serves as a liaison to coordinate activities, negotiate tasks, and solve problems

Applying a project management model (e.g. Agile, Spiral, Waterfall) for a given effort

Serve as programmatic liaison to the sponsor; maintains enterprise sponsor contacts to ensure conformity to all contractual obligations

Formulate outcome and performance-based tasking that leverages program control systems including, but not limited to EVMS and related program control methodologies.

Provide technical and financial reports in order to document progress for the enterprise sponsor.

Maintain individual project schedules and schedule forecasts.

Autonomous approach that provides guidance and leadership to the sponsor and their management stakeholders.

Work closely with the Talent Acquisition team to identify new candidates and adjudicate the interviews, vetting and hiring of the new required resources.

Manage the program staff directly.

Identify risks and documents program progress including implementation, timelines, issues, risks, quality, and successes measures to meet contractual requirements

Provide status reporting to the enterprise sponsor, and our internal team on progress toward objectives

Manage and ensure all project issues are resolved promptly to avoid a negative impact on the budget or schedule.

Use PMF and Agile methodologies to manage projects leveraging Primavera, JIRA, ESMT, ServiceNow and other enterprise tools product

Oversee sprint planning, utilize gathered and analyzed technical information and perform daily Agile scrum. Maintain individual project schedules and schedule forecasts

Serve as programmatic liaison to the sponsor; maintains enterprise sponsor contacts to ensure conformity to all contractual obligations. Must possess strong interpersonal skills with tact as they collaborate with technical resources, engineering, developers, mission partners and senior officers

Formulate outcome and performance based tasking that leverages program control systems including, but not limited to EVMS and related program control methodologies

Provide technical and financial reports in order to document progress for the enterprise sponsor.

Maintain individual project schedules and schedule forecasts

Manage and ensure all project issues are resolved promptly to avoid negative impact to the budget or schedule

Autonomous approach that provides guidance and leadership to the sponsor and their management stakeholders

Work closely with the BAE Systems Talent Acquisition team to identify new candidates and adjudicate the interviews, vetting and hiring of the new required resources.

Manage the program staff directly or through assigned task order leads upon task order awards.

Provide communication that leads to the understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives across all enterprise stakeholders

Identify risks and documents program progress including implementation, time lines, issues, risks, quality and successes measures to meet contractual requirements

Develop, maintain, and implement a Program Management Plan that supports a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and guides the performance of functional activities performed on the Program

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills :
PMP, Agile, ITIL, or other related certifications
Quality processes including ISO, Six Sigma, CMMI
Knowledge of the entire development system life cycle
Strong track record of understanding and interest in current and emerging technologies
Creating and managing a shared pool of internal and subcontract resources
Experience working with the government

Familiarity with service catalog, IT Gateway, ESMT, PET, PCAS, AutoCAD, JIRA, and Primavera

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