IT Program Manager - Chantilly, United States - Dezign Concepts LLC

Dezign Concepts LLC

Verified Company

Chantilly, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Active Top Secret Clearance with Poly Required:

Salary Range:

Up to $195K _(salary is commensurate with education and experience)_**
Job Summary:The organization provides a portfolio of search related services that advances the ability to find information rapidly and easily of data within the organization.

The program supports search of the Sponsor's intranet using variety of tools.

The Sponsor requires a temporary full stack tiger team to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) for a new intranet search user interface.

The Sponsor requires agile project management skills to manage the planning and execution of software development activities ensuring deliverables are provided on time, on budget, and meeting acceptance criteria.

Please Note:

This job requires an existing Top Secret Clearance and Polygraph.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Comply with and participate in all applicable Lean Agile scrums, sprints and grooming sessions.
Meet schedule and delivery commitments within budget.
Identify and manage risks; recommend or take required corrective action; communicate risks and corrective actions effectively to the Sponsor and project team.
Consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification.
Coordinate program management activities including scheduling of meetings and preparation of demonstrations, briefings, and presentations.
Create, maintain, and brief Project Management Review (PMR) slides for projects.
Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors.
Create, manage and update Jira tickets.
Report sprint burnup, top line charts, as well as product features and user stories.
Work with and follow applicable change and configuration management process and tools.
Provide demonstrations during each Sprint Review to show ongoing progress, highlight team challenges or opportunities for process improvements, and obtain clarity on upcoming requirements.

Experience Needed:

Citizenship: Must Be a US Citizen
Existing Clearance Required: Active Top Secret SCI with Poly
Expert Level Experience required
Demonstrated experience (recent) with the Lean Agile methodology and managing full lifecycle software development projects.
Demonstrated experience leading an agile development team to include generating sprint plans.
Demonstrated experience translating customer requirements into system requirements and being able to define MVIs, Features, and User Stories within the Lean Agile construct.
Demonstrated experience working with project teams within the construct of the Lean Agile methodology to determine or plan work scope and level of effort to produce a tshirt size for the associated work.
Demonstrated experience managing top line charts, sprint burnup charts and sprint goals.
Demonstrated experience meeting schedule and delivery commitments within budget.
Demonstrated experience using Jira for managing backlogs, portfolios, products and sprints.
Demonstrated experience monitoring the progress of multiple concurrent and highly visible projects and requirements.
Demonstrated experience with risk identification, management and mitigation.
Demonstrated experience coordinating test resources and deployments with other groups.
Demonstrated experience working with a work management system such as Jira for notifying system status and to seek approval for deployment to production.

Benefits:

Our comprehensive benefits package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Paid Time Off, Holidays, Social Events, Employee Assistance Program, Team Building Activities, 401K, Tuition Assistance, and more.

Dezign Concepts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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