IT Project Manager – Active Directory / Entra ID Migration

Chenega Corporation•UNAVAILABLE, Colorado

About The Position

Chenega Professional Technical Services, LLC is seeking an IT Project Manager to provide expert technical project management for enterprise identity and Active Directory migration to Entra ID, including domain consolidation. The role plans, engineers, and executes migration activities and ensures tasks and deliverables are accurate, timely, and complete. Work includes detailed planning, stakeholder analysis, migration-wave planning and communications, application-owner engagement, compatibility testing, cutover execution with next-day support, and foundational operations and maintenance of supported Windows-based services. The Project Manager coordinates leaders, division teams, identity and application owners, and technical support staff; maintains project plans, schedules, records, dashboards, and status reporting; and manages user communications and readiness for migration waves. The position also supports application access validation, issue and risk management, escalation, root-cause documentation, and lessons learned while following customer policies and procedures.

Requirements

Current PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
At least 10 years of project management experience.
Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Demonstrated experience with Federated Identity Management.
At least 3 years of experience with cloud identity and access management.
Demonstrated experience migrating from Windows AD to Azure AD/Entra ID.
Demonstrated change management experience.
Successfully pass background and drug screening.
Familiarity with Microsoft Office automation products, including MS-Project, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Teams, and MS-Teams Channels/Streams.
Knowledge of technical and functional requirements analysis and management.
Ability to collaboratively maintain project scope and change control.
Ability to work collaboratively in an environment with developing and often conflicting standards and documentation.
Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Must be able to pass the Public Trust Government background investigation.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Ability to work effectively in a small team.
Ability to work in a high-stress environment.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field; at least 10 years of experience in IT systems integration and project management may be substituted for the degree.
Master’s degree.
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI Certified).

Responsibilities

Lead planning and coordination among organization leadership, division teams, multi-office identity and application owners, and technical workstation and identity support staff; convene daily stand-ups and weekly status meetings to drive decisions and remove blockers.
Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan, change-control records, meeting minutes, monthly status and financial reports, and quarterly executive summaries.
Manage communications and user scheduling for migration waves across DOI, including contacting users, providing readiness instructions, notifying users of impacts and timelines, explaining support expectations, and coordinating post-migration follow-up.
Create and maintain the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and detailed project schedules.
Engage application owners early to identify user-dependent applications and facilitate pre-migration compatibility testing.
Coordinate troubleshooting for identity and workstation changes that affect application access and workflows; validate post-migration authentication and access.
Maintain authoritative migration tracking and dashboards covering user readiness, application testing, wave completion, exceptions and follow-up actions, PIV certificate updates, and daily operational logs.
Maintain a live Issue and Risk Log with severity, owner, ETA, and mitigation; escalate urgent items to the customer within one hour of identification.
Publish a consolidated daily status update before 12:00 PM MT covering counts, success and failure, remediation, and user impact; publish a weekly executive summary with KPIs and trend analysis.
Document root-cause analysis and corrective-action recommendations.
Document lessons learned or retrospectives.
Work effectively within the customer environment and comply with its policies, procedures, and processes.
Perform other duties as assigned.