IT Project Manager

About the role

Two Six Technologies is seeking an IT Project Manager to oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of core enterprise information technology initiatives. The role involves leading a diverse portfolio of high-impact IT efforts, with a primary focus on steering the company's CMMC 2.0 readiness and other critical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Project Management: Lead and coordinate concurrent enterprise IT initiatives from initiation to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with corporate milestones.
• Compliance Leadership: Drive the project lifecycles for near-term major compliance frameworks, currently focusing on CMMC 2.0 readiness, evidence collection, milestone tracking, and technical remediation tasks.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Buy-In: Serve as the central advocate and change agent for initiatives. Successfully navigate challenging topics, build consensus among competing priorities, and secure active buy-in from leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Audit Execution: Partner closely with Corporate Security and IT leadership to manage readiness and execution for upcoming technical and enterprise IT audits.
• Enterprise Deployments: Manage the end-to-end rollout of critical internal infrastructure projects, including enterprise mobile implementations (MDM/MAM solutions) to support secure corporate and BYOD capabilities.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate across business sectors, technical teams (DevOps, Systems Engineering, Security), and executive leadership to align expectations, define resource requirements, and mitigate project risks.
• Reporting & Documentation: Maintain transparent project tracking dashboards, milestones, and mitigation plans in Jira/Confluence. Deliver consistent progress metrics.

Requirements

• 7+ years of dedicated IT Project Management experience within a high-growth technology environment or the federal government contracting landscape
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or additional equivalent practical experience
• Experience navigating technical compliance frameworks (such as CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, SOC 2, or FedRAMP), with the ability to turn complex compliance controls into actionable project plans
• Proven experience managing enterprise-wide software deployments, infrastructure upgrades, or identity/device management implementations (e.g., MDM, VDI, Okta/IAM integration)
• Demonstrated track record of leading high-impact initiatives that require organizational change management, with a proven ability to influence without authority and gain buy-in for challenging topics
• Advanced proficiency with standard agile project tracking suites (such as Jira, Confluence, or equivalent ITSM platforms)

Qualifications

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) is a strong plus
• Prior hands-on experience managing a CMMC readiness/certification project (or highly comparable frameworks such as NIST SP 800-171, SOC 2 Type 2, or ISO 27001) is strongly preferred

Skills

• Strong leadership and change management skills
• Technical compliance understanding
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership
• Agility to manage multiple high-visibility projects simultaneously
• Ability to balance complex security constraints and operational uptime

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Tuition assistance and professional development

Pay

The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.

$150,000 - $175,000 USD

Schedule

This is a hybrid position working from our Arlington, VA office.