Program Analyst Sr.

SAIC•JBSA Randolph, TX

About The Position

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented SR Project Analyst to support a Research & Development (R&D) contract focused on innovating student pilot training for the United States Air Force. This role combines hands-on operations and project management support with primary responsibility for Jira and Confluence administration across multiple innovation initiatives. You will enable cross-functional teams (engineers, instructional designers, data scientists, and government stakeholders) to execute efficiently on cutting-edge projects involving advanced simulation, virtual/mixed reality, data-driven performance optimization, and modernized training pipelines under USAF initiatives such as Pilot Training Next (PTN) and the Future of Undergraduate Pilot Training (FUPT). This position is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of process excellence, collaboration tools, and mission impact in a dynamic defense R&D environment.

Requirements

Experience supporting Project Managers in planning, executing, monitoring, and closing R&D projects.
Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules (IMS), work breakdown structures (WBS), risk/issue registers, action trackers, and stakeholder matrices.
Experience preparing status reports, metrics dashboards, executive briefings, and ad-hoc analyses.
Experience facilitating project meetings and capturing decisions and action items.
Experience assisting with contract deliverables, CDRL preparation, configuration management, and compliance reporting.
Experience identifying process bottlenecks and leading or supporting continuous improvement initiatives using Agile, Lean, or hybrid methodologies.
Experience as a Jira Administrator, including configuration and maintenance of projects, issue types, custom fields, workflows, screens, permission schemes, and automation rules.
Experience designing and optimizing Jira boards, dashboards, filters, and reports.
Experience administering Confluence, including creating and managing spaces, developing page templates and macros, and implementing labeling/taxonomy.
Experience establishing governance, documentation standards, and user training for tool adoption.
Experience performing instance maintenance, user access audits, content cleanup, and evaluating apps/integrations.
Experience providing user support, troubleshooting, and coaching for Atlassian tools.

Responsibilities

Support Project Managers in planning, executing, monitoring, and closing R&D projects and experiments related to pilot training innovation.
Develop and maintain integrated master schedules (IMS), work breakdown structures (WBS), risk/issue registers, action trackers, and stakeholder matrices.
Prepare high-quality recurring status reports, metrics dashboards, executive briefings, and ad-hoc analyses for internal leadership and USAF customers.
Facilitate project meetings (daily stand-ups, sprint ceremonies, technical interchange meetings, after-action reviews); capture decisions and drive action item closure.
Assist with contract deliverables, CDRL preparation, configuration management, and compliance reporting requirements.
Identify process bottlenecks and lead or support continuous improvement initiatives using Agile, Lean, or hybrid methodologies.
Serve as primary Jira Administrator: configure and maintain projects, issue types, custom fields, workflows, screens, permission schemes, and automation rules to support Agile, Kanban, and hybrid project models.
Design and optimize boards, dashboards, filters, and reports tailored to R&D needs (prototype tracking, experiment evaluation, requirements traceability, cross-team visibility).
Administer Confluence: create and manage spaces, develop page templates and macros, implement labeling/taxonomy, and optimize search and discoverability for project documentation and knowledge bases.
Establish governance, documentation standards, and user training/onboarding to drive consistent, high-quality tool adoption across distributed teams.
Perform regular instance maintenance, user access audits, content cleanup, and evaluation of apps/integrations (Microsoft 365, Power BI, Teams, etc.).
Provide user support, troubleshooting, and coaching to maximize team productivity with Atlassian tools.