Project/Task Sr. Manager - TS/SCI w/Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology • Herndon, VA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Project/Task Manager Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Project Manager supporting our customer's Cyber Engineering operations. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. As a Project Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an exceptional candidate joining our team to manage Group-level projects and tasks directly for the leadership of the Cyber Engineering Group (CEG) within our customer's Office of Cyber Security (OCS).

Requirements

• Strong Project/Task Management skills
• Confidence, demeanor, and presence to interact with and brief senior customer leaders
• Experience managing budgets and working knowledge of customer procurement mechanisms
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Confluence/Jira experience
• Microsoft Office Suite (MS Project and/or Visio a plus)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Education: Bachelor of Science Information Technology or Cybersecurity Management, or related discipline
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience managing IT and/or cyber projects
• US Citizenship Required
• Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired
• Knowledge of ICD 503 A&A process and security controls a plus

Responsibilities

• Manages and is responsible for the successful delegation and/or completion of all tasks in assigned projects.
• Does not directly supervise employees but works across Divisions and Branches encompassing approximately 25 staff and 75 contractors consisting of engineers, developers, cyber SMEs, and systems support/operations personnel to ensure effective communication and coordination.
• Ensures communication, collaboration, and cooperation across divisions and teams that collectively enable mission success.
• Assists the leadership to proactively identify risks and challenges and then develop or propose solutions to customer leadership to mitigate those.
• Directs, tracks, and provides both formal and informal reporting on multiple projects and systems (create/update Confluence pages and Jira tickets, provide information for biweekly and monthly Project Management Reviews, provide summary emails and formal writeups upon request).
• Manages/tracks Jira tickets and ensure work is being documented and prioritized correctly; may participate in weekly SCRUMs; engages regularly with CEG components and teams to keep abreast of all work, issues, concerns, etc.
• Communicates effectively with customer and contract leadership, as well as the contractor team, to understand and relay objectives, requirements, and cost/schedule/technical concerns.
• Identifies capability gaps and addresses needs to proactively recommend changes to ensure teams have what they need to complete work and achieve project success.
• Understanding of IT systems and infrastructure is required; understanding of cybersecurity principles and controls is desired.

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level