Technical Project Manager

Karsun Solutions, LLC • Herndon, VA

8h

About The Position

Join Karsun Solutions to grow your career with the company transforming possible for the US Government. At Karsun, collaboration drives their community, and they are committed to building an environment where team members from diverse backgrounds can innovate, learn, and grow. The only limit to potential at Karsun is curiosity. Innovate, Grow, and Do Extraordinary Together is at the core of everything Karsun does. They defy assumptions and enable cutting-edge cloud-based transformation as IT modernization experts. Their people-first focus, innovation, and performance-driven culture empower and encourage employees to be forward-thinking, take ownership, and seek advancement opportunities for personal growth. Karsun is rapidly expanding, and as a member of the Project Management Team, you will be challenged to “Do Extraordinary” every day, work with great urgency, and contribute measurable ideas and solutions that make Karsun better, you better, and bring success to their clients. Unlike other similar sized and larger competitors, you will also enjoy access to senior leadership, and you will have a voice in how they evolve Project Management and Karsun as a whole. This role is for a project manager who enjoys delivering new and improved software solutions to meet customer requirements, likes to solve problems and provide technical direction to the development team, and would love to lead and grow with great colleagues to become elite in the industry.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in information systems, business systems, management information systems, IT management, and/or other IT degrees.
• 10+ years of experience leading diverse technical teams, while serving as the primary point of contact for all technical matters.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent project or program management certification
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Nice To Haves

• Software development experience, preferably using Java, or other IT development experience.
• 5 years of experience managing both development projects and ongoing sustainment efforts that are evolving to use difference systems software or technologies
• Experience facilitating reviews with government customers to validate requirements, prioritize program backlog requirements into sprint backlogs, and validate designs.
• Professional level Agile certification, knowledge or experience as a Scrum Master
• Ability to shift between waterfall, agile, and DevOps methodologies and combine/tailor multiple approaches to meet project needs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute the full project and product lifecycle from definition to closeout utilizing iterative and waterfall methodologies: project planning; risk assessment; resource management; estimating and monitoring level of effort; identifying and managing impacts to cost, schedule, quality, and scope; organizing, planning, and prioritizing team tasks; and communicating and collaborating across organizational boundaries.
• Review code, make suggestions for improvements, and lay out tasks required to meet customer requirements.
• Interact directly with the customer product owners and contributors, managers and users
• Assess customer requirements, identifying dependencies and gaps, and developing responsive project plans.
• Work with the security team to ensure the applications are as secure as possible.
• Develop performance planning and assessments for direct reports.

What This Job Offers

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