Cloud PM

About the role

PROJECT/TASK MANAGER GDIT is seeking an experienced Cloud PM with strong strategic analysis, enterprise planning, and delivery-focused functional analysis expertise to support our PPS Modernization Program. This role blends high‑level strategic capability with deep hands‑on functional analysis needed for large‑scale modernization, cloud migration, and process transformation initiatives. The Cloud PM serves as a strategic advisor, translating executive priorities into actionable roadmaps while ensuring functional requirements for complex IT systems are fully defined, analyzed, and validated. This position operates across both strategic planning and system delivery workstreams—shaping early‑phase initiatives, conducting business and capability modeling, and driving requirements through the full modernization lifecycle. Location: On Customer Site - Ft Liberty, NC (Fort Bragg, USA). Travel required: 10‑25%. Work is primarily onsite.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to define business problems, strategic objectives, and high-level solution approaches for modernization.
• Develop and present business cases, including business process automation, analysis, and recommendations.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, and Portfolio Governance teams to create and maintain strategic roadmaps.
• Evaluate business processes at the macro level using enterprise capability mapping, value stream analysis, and process decomposition.
• Facilitate strategic workshops, decision forums, and prioritization sessions with senior leadership.
• Shape the initial scope, objectives, and success criteria for new modernization initiatives before transition to delivery teams.
• Ensure alignment between strategy, technology, modernization goals, and organizational priorities.
• Provide expert guidance to clients recommending functional and strategic improvements.
• Deliver recommendations, analyses, and briefings to senior-level stakeholders.
• Develop clear, executive‑ready communication materials—including strategic briefs, decision papers, roadmap narratives, and modernization storylines—to support alignment across senior leadership.
• Translate complex technical and functional concepts into concise, well‑structured visual artifacts (e.g., capability maps, transformation diagrams, decision models) to enable informed decision‑making.
• Create internal communication frameworks that ensure cross‑team understanding of modernization objectives, priorities, and impacts.
• Establish communication rhythms (program updates, cross‑team syncs, leadership briefs) that increase transparency and reduce ambiguity across delivery and strategy workstreams.
• Drive information design for program initiatives, ensuring roadmaps, process flows, and conceptual models are coherent, accessible, and tailored to diverse stakeholder audiences.
• Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements for a