Assessment and Authorization Manager
About The Position
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Assessment and Authorization Manager supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As an Assessment and Authorization Manager, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Assessment and Authorization Manager joining our team to analyze design, develop, implement, and support code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service. HOW AN ASSESSMENT AND AUTHORIZATION MANAGER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT In this role, a typical day will include: Lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives to retire applications and remediate remnants across the enterprise, drive cybersecurity assessment and authorization (A&A) activities, and strengthen governance through updated policies, SOPs, and training. Partner across business and IT to deliver on-time outcomes, reduce risk, and improve compliance posture. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required. NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.
Requirements
- 8-12 years’ experience in and proven ability to manage multiple projects from beginning to successful completion, including defining project scope and objectives, creating project plans/schedules, establishing and tracking metrics, and engaging with and guiding stakeholders at all management and leadership levels.
- Strong organizational skills sufficient to plan, coordinate, track and manage several ongoing and complex efforts, including retirements and remnant clean-up of applications across the organization; revisions of outdated compliance reviews for hundreds of information resources; ongoing updates to vital documents.
- Experience with and understanding of process to retire applications/systems across large organizations, including verification of remnant removal, minimizing security risks to the organization, and ability to advise application stakeholders through the process.
- Knowledge of or experience with the SDLC Retirement/Decommission process.
- Strong written and oral communications skills, including ability to create project-related and training documentation, and ability to prepare presentations and brief executives, managers, and peers.
- Experience in information security and understanding of the information resource accreditation process.
- Knowledge and understanding of cybersecurity policies and processes sufficient to review, understand and provide inputs to internal security policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and training documents.
- Ability to create SharePoint sites, including Team sites, and demonstrated experience in customizing and managing content on SharePoint sites, including documents, lists, and libraries.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
- This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required.
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or similar credentials are preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives to retire applications and remediate remnants across the enterprise
- Drive cybersecurity assessment and authorization (A&A) activities
- Strengthen governance through updated policies, SOPs, and training
- Partner across business and IT to deliver on-time outcomes, reduce risk, and improve compliance posture
Benefits
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
