Deputy Program Manager

Peraton•Herndon, VA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced Software Project Manager to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, correlation and dissemination. Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners. The Software Project Manager will serve as the Deputy Program Manager reporting directly to the SITE III DO Program Manager. In this role the Deputy Program Manager will oversee multiple software development efforts, oversee O&M of deployed software applications, and participate in all levels of planning for future applications and projects. The Software Project Manager will coordinate with multiple project leads to gather and access status, ensure timelines are met and take proactive corrective actions as necessary. Responsibilities include resource planning, interviewing and hiring, extensive interaction with customer leadership to include briefings, presentations and real-time technical exchange meetings. Additional responsibilities include creating cost estimates based on a strong understanding of resources levels and capabilities, and creating detailed technical approaches to customer tasking. The Software Project Manager will be responsible for oversight and review of the Integrated Management Schedule (IMS) delivered to the customer on a monthly basis. Other deliverables include creating the monthly Program Management Review in coordination with the SITE III DO Program Manager, as well as weekly progress reviews for the customer. Participation in Quality Assurance and Risk Management tasks is also required. As the Deputy Program Manager, this role serves as the backup to the SITE III DO program manager for all inquiries from the customer to include financial and contractual topics. As such the Deputy PM must have a complete understanding of the contract deliverables (weekly, monthly, annual) and full understanding of contract funding at the contract level and at the individual applications levels. Problem solving, flexibility and the ability to collaborate on engineering tasks are key to successfully executing this role. Must be able to take and incorporate feedback, and make adjustments to plans as options are developed. Must be able to listen and generate consensus among teams and must be able to convey vision.

Requirements

Requires Bachelor's degree in information technology, or information management, with a minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and managing software development teams/projects.
Active TS/SCI with ability to pass a polygraph
Experience with Agile development and AWS architecture and hosting, general knowledge database design, webservices, and UI design
Experience planning, scheduling and tracking software development
Strong presentation skills
Proven expertise in PowerPoint, Excel and MS Project
Ability to multitask across multiple efforts
Past experience managing program cost and funding
Ability to work in a fast-paced, Agile environment
Fulltime work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Nice To Haves

PMP
Security+
Certified Scrum Master

Responsibilities

oversee multiple software development efforts
oversee O&M of deployed software applications
participate in all levels of planning for future applications and projects
coordinate with multiple project leads to gather and access status
ensure timelines are met and take proactive corrective actions as necessary
resource planning
interviewing and hiring
extensive interaction with customer leadership to include briefings, presentations and real-time technical exchange meetings
creating cost estimates based on a strong understanding of resources levels and capabilities
creating detailed technical approaches to customer tasking
responsible for oversight and review of the Integrated Management Schedule (IMS) delivered to the customer on a monthly basis
creating the monthly Program Management Review in coordination with the SITE III DO Program Manager
weekly progress reviews for the customer
Participation in Quality Assurance and Risk Management tasks
serves as the backup to the SITE III DO program manager for all inquiries from the customer to include financial and contractual topics

Benefits

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

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