Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

IT Project Manager

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab • $105K — $290K *
Laurel, MD 20707In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent IT work experience
  • 5+ years of IT project management experience delivering enterprise projects
  • Detailed knowledge of the system development life cycle, including agile techniques
  • Strong written and oral communication skills for developing briefings and presentations
  • Experience gathering requirements and validating solutions for Cloud, COTS, and custom systems
  • Ability to obtain Secret clearance and access classified information, requiring U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

  • Lead IT infrastructure and applications projects from inception to deployment
  • Manage all phases of the software development lifecycle with key business users and teams
  • Provide technical project leadership and resolve business and technical issues
  • Guide team members and ensure quality control over deliverables
  • Coordinate user activities for requirements, design, development, and testing
  • Brief and communicate project updates to leadership
  • Develop project plans and manage costs, schedules, and risks
  • Integrate COTS, SaaS, and custom software tools across related projects.
Full Job Description
Description

As a IT Project Manager you will...
  • Lead IT infrastructure and applications projects from inception to deployment
  • Lead all phases of the software development lifecycle through interactions with key business users, subject matter experts and business application project teams, integrating complex business rules across multiple enterprise-wide systems
  • Provide technical project leadership including active participation in resolution of business and technical issues, input and mentorship over architectural/design processes and oversight of design/development tasks.
  • Provide guidance to team members and quality control over deliverables and lead all aspects of the integration of projects within the overall portfolio.
  • Coordinate activities of key business users that are supporting the requirements, design, development, testing and implementation phases.
  • Responsible for briefing and communications to leadership
  • Manage costs, schedules, and risks.
  • Develop project plans, monitor, analyze, control, and communicate project achievements and progress updates on the frequency determined by the program sponsor and/or steering team.
  • Lead inter-related projects through effective approaches to integrate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS), Software-as-a-Service, and custom-developed software tools.


Qualifications

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...
  • Have a Bachelor 's degree in IT or a related field or equivalent years of professional IT work experience.
  • Have 5+ years of IT project management experience with a track record of delivering enterprise projects on time and on budget.
  • Possess and apply detailed knowledge and experience with system development life cycle including agile development techniques.
  • Possess very strong written and oral communication skills with the proven ability to develop and deliver briefings to senior management using MS PowerPoint, Word and Excel and deliver presentations to all levels of staff.
  • Have worked with a broad amount of user communitys to gather requirements, to develop and validate solutions supporting the enterprise, including implementation of Cloud, COTS and Custom-developed solutions.
  • Are able to obtain a Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a TS/SCI level clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship..


You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you...
  • Have experience with the development and deployment of business applications.
  • Have change management experience and the ability to achieve user adoption.
  • Have presented to and gained consensus from executive-level stakeholders.
  • Have experience with both IT infrastructure and applications projects.
  • Possess a PMP certification.
  • Familiar with Smartsheet


Minimum Rate

$105,000 Annually

Maximum Rate

$290,000 Annually

About Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a research and development organization that provides solutions to national security and scientific challenges. The laboratory was founded in 1942 and is located in Laurel, Maryland. APL is a division of the Johns Hopkins University and is a not-for-profit organization. The laboratory has expertise in a variety of areas, including space exploration, national security, and healthcare.
Learn more about Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
1942
* Ladders Estimates

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