Senior IT Project Manager

ManTech - Chandler, AZ

Full-time - Senior

Chandler, AZ

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 a strong focus on quality management, documentation, and vendor coordination, all while providing technical direction and mentoring to team members.

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
• Risk management and developing risk mitigation strategies
• Assist in identifying and assessing risks related to network, security, and cloud operations
• Assist in developing risk mitigation strategies; 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
• Work closely 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
• Coordination of procurement, installation and maintenance of network, security, and cloud systems, ensuring compliance with project requirements
• Support the development of briefings and presentations for customers
• Support the development of documentation on policies, SOPs, and Best Practices
• Provide status updates and other project information and options as requested
• Manage change requests related to network, security, and cloud operations
• Assess the impact of changes on the project
• Utilizing Change Control Boards (CCBs) to manage and control any project-related changes
• 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
• Provide guidance and task assignment to program personnel mentoring team members improving support to the customer

Requirements

• A Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification
• An Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification
• A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business management, or related degree
• A minimum of (9) nine 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

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Affirmative action policies
• Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities