F-35 Senior IT Project Manager | Active Secret clearance

About the role

Transform technology into opportunity as a Senior IT Project Manager at GDIT. This is a senior role responsible for designing, leading, and governing schedule and WBS practices across a portfolio of IT projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PMO/leadership to define and implement standards, methods, and best practices for IT project scheduling and WBS development across the portfolio.
• Continuously improve scheduling practices, templates, and guidelines based on lessons learned and industry standards.
• Own the design and integrity of the master IT project schedule in Microsoft Project Server.
• Analyze schedule data to identify cross-project impacts, critical paths, resource/contention issues, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Lead the design and refinement of WBSs and WBS dictionaries for IT projects based on business and technical requirements.
• Facilitate workshops with project managers, product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to decompose scope into well-defined work packages.
• Ensure WBSs are traceable to requirements, aligned with deliverables, and suitable for robust scheduling and reporting.
• Serve as the primary coach and advisor to IT project managers on WBS development, schedule structuring, and use of Project Server.
• Provide practical guidance on defining activities, sequencing tasks, setting dependencies, estimating durations, and managing baselines.
• Promote adoption of consistent scheduling practices, templates, and naming conventions to improve quality and comparability across projects.
• Lead selected complex IT projects (e.g., new product/service launches, platform upgrades, software implementations) end-to-end.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, manage risks and issues, oversee change control, and ensure delivery against scope, schedule, and quality objectives.
• Cook up cross-functional teams (business, development, infrastructure, security, operations, vendors) to drive execution.
• Use advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, advanced data analysis) to interpret schedule and portfolio data and provide insights to leadership.
• Proactively identify schedule risks and bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions and scenario options.

Qualifications

• Required Experience: 10+ years of IT project management experience with advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project Server, and project management best practices, capable of both leading complex IT projects and elevating the scheduling capability of a team of project managers.
• Experience in analyzing program/project status and providing documentation to support project/program.
• Experience with ITSM based services.
• Experience with schedule development and WBS dictionaries.
• Required Certifications: DoD 8140.03 Work Role (802) IT Project Manager - Basic. Industry Certifications: PMP and ITIL Foundations (ITIL to be achieved within 3 months of hiring).

Skills

• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
• Information Technology Project Management
• Microsoft Office Project Server
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401(k) with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $110,500 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote