Systems Engineering and Management Advisor

Responsibilities

The Sponsor's office delivers critical needs at a fast pace to its partners, and coordinates growing out an integrated architecture that both spans across and respects needs of diverse mission areas. The Sponsor's office provides technical support and solution development expertise while seeking to leverage existing technologies using a highlyskilled team. The Systems Engineer will serve as a Technical Project Manager supporting the Branch and will provide support to ensure a portfolio of technical solutions are delivered and implemented consistentwith the vision, on time and within budget. The following responsibilities may not be fully inclusive of the positionresponsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Perform all aspects of project management including project initiation, creation of project plan and schedule, conduct Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM), assemble clear documentation, and interact with stakeholders.
• Perform overall management of the specific technical (often software-development focused) projects and ensuring that the solutions and schedules are implemented in a timely manner, that risks or opportunitiesare identified early, and that issues are tackled efficiently.
• Work with all levels of management, Sponsor's divisions and branches, facilities, and service providers to proactively define and accurately capture requirements.
• Oversee day-to-day activities, identify dependencies and blockers, develop project timelines, presentations, deliverables, PMPs, and risk management plans.
• Facilitate/coordinate with other developers, help align and guide the team, and advise Sponsor leadership on administrative aspects outside of the PM's scope.
• Manage projects from initiation to completion.
• Lead, monitor, and track IT projects using Sponsor's tools including but not limited to MS Project, Confluence, HIVE, and JIRA.
• Create and brief quad charts and presentations, capture meeting minutes (action items and decisions included), conduct control gates, brief project status, and keep Senior Management apprised of project status.

All personnel coming in to the organization undergo an additional security review that can take anywhere from 7 business days to 45+ days.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Minimum of 8 years with a related technical BS/BA
• Demonstrated ability to work proactively in ambiguous environments, bringing structure, clarity, and stability
• Demonstrated experience gathering and developing business requirements, and visualizing content that would provide an enhanced understanding of the information
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Agile methodologies to improve management of requirementsand deliver of functions
• Demonstrated experiencemanaging and integrating across multiple high priority projects with competing priorities as well a s common or overlapping needs
• Proven expertise balancing project schedules and identifying/tracking risks, issues, and opportunities
• Demonstrated experience collaborating within project teams and across organizations on critical tasks
• Demonstrated experience deconflicting project resources and other dependencies and elevating when appropriate
• Demonstrated experiencein SharePoint, MS Project, Confluence, HIVE, JIRA, and other PM related tools to create user stores, plan sprints, or track work requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with attention to detail, strong organizational skills and the ability to independentlymanage and prioritize multiple tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated proactive management and communication-stylein technical execution of projects towards strategic goals

Desired Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education technicalcertifications or training, or work experience
• Proven expertise working well within a team. Listening and incorporating theirinputs and needs to drive the project to completion. Excellent oral and writtencommunication skills
• Demonstrated experience working in Sponsor community supporting Sponsor's mission requirements and processes
• Demonstrated experience working in IT services management, delivery life-cycles, and aligning technical operations with business value
• Demonstrated experience fostering and facilitating strategicpartnershipsacrossorganizational boundaries to positively impact mission delivery
• Demonstrated experience with leading rapid development IT projects to include but not limited to software development, network, and development of applications in cloud environmentsutilizing Project Management Framework (PMF)
• Demonstrated experience creating project plans, managing scope, schedule and budgets
• Demonstrated leadership skills and support of team members to achieve success
• Certifications:
  • Project Management - PMP certification preferred
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Target Salary Range$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individuals experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed athttps://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application StatementsThe application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidates own.