Senior IT Project Manager

ManTech - Stennis Space Center, MS

Full-time - Senior

Stennis Space Center, MS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior IT Project Manager at ManTech International plays a crucial role in managing and overseeing projects related to network, security, and cloud operations. This position involves defining project scope, coordinating activities, managing risks, and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction while adhering to project management best practices. The role requires collaboration with various teams and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery and compliance with established standards.

Responsibilities

• Define scope, objectives, and deliverables within the network, security, and cloud operations environment.
• Coordinate project activities and develop project schedules.
• Create work packages tied to milestones, identify dependencies, and schedule work; ensure tasks are assigned and completed on time; track and report on project milestones and deliverables.
• Manage risk and develop risk mitigation strategies; assist in identifying and assessing risks related to network, security, and cloud operations; monitor risks throughout the project.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize operations tasks and engineering projects; provide routinely scheduled reports to senior managers on task and project performance.
• Collaborate with the PMO team to maintain visibility of all tasks and projects; provide updates on network, security, and cloud operation policies, SOPs, and Best Practices to the PMO team.
• Coordinate procurement, installation, and maintenance of network, security, and cloud systems, ensuring compliance with project requirements.
• Support the development of briefings and presentations for customers; provide status updates and other project information as requested.
• Manage change requests related to network, security, and cloud operations; assess the impact of changes on the project.
• Define and monitor project quality standards; conduct quality control checks.
• Provide technical expertise and data to support customer decision-making on solution alternatives and other investments.
• Provide technical direction to guide project team execution; mentor team members to improve support to the customer.

Requirements

• Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business management, or related degree
• Minimum of 9 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager
• Knowledge and experience applying project management best practices
• Experience on NOC and/or SOC and Infrastructure Engineering contracts
• Experience on projects involving Agile and DevOps processes
• Understanding of and some experience overseeing implementation of ITIL practices
• Experience leading medium to large size project teams

Nice-to-haves

• An advanced degree
• Scrum Master experience
• FinOps experience
• Experience working with ServiceNow