Project Manager (Data Projects)

ECS Federal•Work from home, VA

7d•Remote

About The Position

Everforth ECS is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a rapidly growing data analytics and business intelligence program delivering data-driven solutions for federal customers. The role leads multiple concurrent workstreams and combines project management with business analysis, guiding initiatives from initiation through delivery and closeout. The Project Manager works with product owners, technical teams, federal stakeholders, and delivery teams to keep projects aligned with mission needs, scope, schedules, and priorities. The position involves projects related to data pipelines, analytics, reporting, visualizations, and modern application or cloud-based solutions.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
At least 5 years of experience managing IT, software development, data analytics, or business-transformation projects.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple workstreams or projects simultaneously from initiation through implementation.
Demonstrated experience with business-analysis activities, including requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, process analysis, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Excellent verbal and written communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Applied experience using Agile delivery practices.
Experience using Jira and Confluence in a project-delivery environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting federal agencies, preferably DHS.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent data analytics and business intelligence workstreams.
Lead project kickoffs and establish objectives, scope, stakeholders, requirements, delivery approach, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned workstreams and build relationships with federal stakeholders and delivery teams.
Conduct business analysis, including stakeholder interviews, requirements elicitation, process analysis, user-story development, acceptance-criteria definition, and documentation of business needs.
Translate stakeholder needs into actionable project plans, backlogs, and roadmaps.
Develop and maintain project schedules, meeting minutes, risk and issue registers, and other project artifacts.
Identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, scope changes, and resourcing constraints.
Lead and support Agile delivery ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
Partner with stakeholders and technical teams to maintain and prioritize backlogs in Jira.
Use Confluence and other collaboration tools to create and maintain project documentation, requirements, decisions, process flows, and stakeholder-ready materials.
Support change control activities, including creating and submitting change requests.
Support project governance activities, including preparing and coordinating Privacy Threshold Agreements.
Prepare clear, concise, audience-appropriate project communications.