Systems Engineering and Management Advisor

The Sponsor's office delivers critical needs at a fast pace to its partners, and coordinates growing out an integrated architecture that both spans across and respects needs of diverse mission areas. The Sponsor's office provides technical support and solution development expertise while seeking to leverage existing technologies using a highly skilled team. The Systems Engineer will serve as a Technical Project Manager supporting the Branch and will provide support to ensure a portfolio of technical solutions are delivered and implemented consistent with the vision, on time and within budget. The following responsibilities may not be fully inclusive of the position responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Perform all aspects of project management including project initiation, creation of project plan and schedule, conduct Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM), assemble clear documentation, and interact with stakeholders.
• Perform overall management of the specific technical (often software-development focused) projects and ensuring that the solutions and schedules are implemented in a timely manner, that risks or opportunities are identified early, and that issues are tackled efficiently.
• Work with all levels of management, Sponsor's divisions and branches, facilities, and service providers to proactively define and accurately capture requirements.
• Oversee day-to-day activities, identify dependencies and blockers, develop project timelines, presentations, deliverables, PMPs, and risk management plans.
• Facilitate/coordinate with other developers, help align and guide the team, and advise Sponsor leadership on administrative aspects outside of the PM's scope.
• Manage projects from initiation to completion.
• Lead, monitor, and track IT projects using Sponsor's tools including  but not limited to MS Project, Confluence, HIVE, and JIRA.
• Create and brief quad charts and presentations, capture meeting minutes (action items and decisions included), conduct control gates, brief project status, and keep Senior Management apprised of project status.

All personnel coming in to the organization undergo an additional security review that can take anywhere from 7 business days to 45+ days.

Required Skills:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Minimum of 8 years with a related technical BS/BA
• Demonstrated ability to work proactively in ambiguous environments, bringing structure, clarity, and stability
• Demonstrated experience gathering and developing business requirements, and visualizing content that would provide an enhanced understanding of the information
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Agile methodologies to improve management of requirements and deliver of functions
• Demonstrated experience managing and integrating across multiple high priority projects with competing priorities as well a s common or overlapping needs
• Proven expertise balancing project schedules and identifying/tracking risks, issues, and opportunities
• Demonstrated experience collaborating within project teams and across organizations on critical tasks
• Demonstrated experience deconflicting project resources and other dependencies and elevating when appropriate
• Demonstrated experience in SharePoint, MS Project, Confluence, HIVE, JIRA, and other PM related tools to create user stores, plan sprints, or track work requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with attention to detail, strong organizational skills and the ability to independently manage and prioritize multiple tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated proactive management and communication-style in technical execution of projects towards strategic goals

Desired Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education technical certifications or training, or work experience
• Proven expertise working well within a team. Listening and incorporating their inputs and needs to drive the project to completion. Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working in Sponsor community supporting Sponsor's mission requirements and processes
• Demonstrated experience working in IT services management, delivery life-cycles, and aligning technical operations with business value
• Demonstrated experience fostering and facilitating strategic partnerships across organizational boundaries to positively impact mission delivery
• Demonstrated experience with leading rapid development IT projects to include but not limited to software development, network, and development of applications in cloud environments utilizing Project Management Framework (PMF)
• Demonstrated experience creating project plans, managing scope, schedule and budgets
• Demonstrated leadership skills and support of team members to achieve success
• Certifications:
  • Project Management - PMP certification preferred
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)