IT Project Lead

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Schedule and lead customer and stakeholder sessions for the identification and refinement of technical and functional business requirements.
• Serve as point of contact for non-routine to moderately complex installation projects for communication networks.
• Convert customer requirements into well-groomed user stories and collaborate with the Scrum Master for one or more software development projects.
• Develop long-term strategic objectives to ensure user requirements will be satisfied in future years.
• Work in collaboration to drive organizational change management to adopt timely, cost effective and secure IT solutions.
• Plan, document and coordinate new and existing business cases and projects that follow the customer's Governance life cycle, including hands-on solution development, resource management, implementation support, and client management.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate OCM, SDLC, and DevOps activities to bring value and impact to the customer.
• Work closely with Business Relationship Managers to manage development of stakeholder priorities, milestones, and ensure successful project completion.
• Analyze IT infrastructure and information needs from operational and strategic perspectives and determine personnel and tool requirements.
• Perform horizontal system integration planning and interface with other functional areas to ensure timely implementation of technical solutions and schedules.
• Deliver in person Project Management Reviews and presentations to multiple large groups of stakeholders.

Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, management information systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant Project Management experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex, large Enterprise IT programs including Service Delivery, Data Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Agile development, and DevSecOps.
• Experience defining measurable metrics to monitor progress.

Nice to Have

• An active Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional or Program Management Professional certification.
• An active Agile methodology certification (i.e., CSM or SAFe).
• An active ITIL certification.
• Experience in architecting, developing, and implementing enterprise business solutions utilizing Scaled Agile methodologies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of project management experience.