IT Project Manager – Active Directory / Entra ID Migration

Chenega Professional & Technical Services•, CO

1d•$95,000 - $115,000

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, as well as domain consolidation activities. The role is responsible for planning, engineering, and executing the work while ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and completion of tasks and deliverables. 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 with organizational leadership, division teams, identity and application owners, and technical workstation and identity support staff. They manage project plans, schedules, communications, tracking and reporting; oversee risk and issue escalation; and support migration readiness, execution, and post-migration validation. The employee must work effectively within the customer environment and comply with its policies, procedures, and processes.

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 constructively and 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 in a small team and in a high-stress environment.
A bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred; at least 10 years of experience in IT systems integration and project management may be substituted for the degree.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI Certified).

Responsibilities

Lead planning and coordination across 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.
Own communications and user scheduling for migration waves across DOI, including contacting users, sending readiness instructions, notifying users of impacts, timelines, and support expectations, and coordinating post-migration follow-up.
Create and maintain the detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project schedules.
Engage application owners early to identify user-dependent applications and facilitate pre-migration compatibility testing; coordinate troubleshooting for identity and workstation changes affecting application access and workflows; validate post-migration authentication and access.
Maintain authoritative migration tracking and dashboards for user readiness, application testing status, wave-level completion, exceptions and follow-up actions, PIV certificate updates, and daily operational logs.
Maintain a live Issue & 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, including counts, success or failure, remediation, and user impact, and a weekly executive summary with KPIs and trend analysis.
Document root cause analyses 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.