Senior IT Project Manager

About the role

StraitSys Inc is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager – Cloud to support the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. In this role, you will lead complex, enterprise-level cloud modernization, migration, application, and infrastructure initiatives of significant scope, cost, and technical complexity.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the definition of project charters, scope, goals, requirements, and deliverables for cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure, platform, and application initiatives.
• Assist the Government in developing and maintaining project plans, work assignments, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, and budgetary documentation for cloud-focused projects.
• Manage projects throughout the cloud adoption and delivery lifecycle, including discovery, assessment, architecture and planning, migration/modernization, testing, deployment, release, and transition to operations.
• Work closely with Government stakeholders and technical teams to understand, negotiate, document, and manage cloud project requirements and deliverables.
• Coordinate across cloud architects, engineers, DevSecOps teams, cybersecurity personnel, application developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
• Assist the Government in assessing, validating, monitoring, planning, and mitigating project risks, including risks related to cloud security, dependencies, migration, integration, performance, cost, and schedule.
• Facilitate communication among project sponsors, customers, technical teams, security stakeholders, vendors, and Government leadership.
• Communicate project progress, cloud migration or modernization status, milestones, risks, dependencies, issues, and decisions to customers and management.
• Assist the Government in measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools, metrics, and techniques.
• Assist the Government in managing customer expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction throughout cloud transformation initiatives.
• Plan, facilitate, and champion effective Agile/Scrum and DevSecOps practices, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint demonstrations, retrospectives, release planning, and dependency management.
• Coordinate cloud solution releases and deployments while ensuring appropriate technical, security, testing, and operational readiness requirements are addressed.
• Support the management of cloud project costs, resource utilization, schedules, and technical dependencies.
• Analyze complex cloud project challenges and develop solutions involving finance, scheduling, architecture, security, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.
• Support continuous improvement of cloud project governance, delivery processes, documentation, and performance metrics.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Active Top Secret Clearance; may be required to obtain SCI access.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in business, computer science, project management, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Significant related experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Advanced degree in a business or technical field preferred.
• Ten plus (10+) years of experience in traditional project management disciplines and governance, Agile/Scrum-based practices, and DevSecOps, with demonstrated progression of increased scope and complexity.
• Ten plus (10+) years of full-time professional project management experience, including hands-on experience managing large, enterprise-wide IT projects, software/application development, infrastructure, and web technologies, with at least three (3) years of supervisory and/or management experience.
• Five plus (5+) years of experience managing cloud migration, cloud modernization, cloud infrastructure, cloud application development, or other cloud transformation projects.
• Five plus (5+) years of experience managing software/application development projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving AWS, Microsoft Azure, or comparable enterprise cloud platforms.
• Experience working with cloud architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, DevSecOps teams, and application development teams.
• Experience supporting cloud initiatives within Federal Government or other highly regulated and secure environments preferred.
• FAC P/PM or PMP certification preferred.
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other industry-recognized cloud certification preferred.
• Industry-recognized IT service management certification preferred.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence and TFS/Azure DevOps a plus.
• Ability to successfully pass a pre-employment drug test.

Skills

• Expertise in project management frameworks and disciplines used to successfully deliver enterprise cloud and IT modernization projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud migration, cloud modernization, cloud infrastructure, platform, or cloud-native application initiatives.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public/private/hybrid cloud environments, cloud migration strategies, and shared responsibility models.
• Working knowledge of major cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other enterprise cloud environments.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, security, data migration, application modernization, and systems integration concepts.
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management governance, Agile/Scrum practices, and DevSecOps principles within cloud delivery environments.
• Knowledge of developing, migrating, and managing highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based systems.
• Understanding of cloud security and compliance considerations within federal environments.
• Ability to effectively coordinate technical teams responsible for cloud architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, application development, testing, and operations.
• Ability to identify and manage cloud project dependencies, risks, resource requirements, schedules, and costs.
• Ability to prepare effective executive-level and decision-making presentations and explain complex cloud and technical concepts in language understandable to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Commitment to exceptional customer collaboration and engagement.
• Proven success managing multiple priorities and driving projects and tasks through completion.
• Prior success working within an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships across Government, contractor, and vendor teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, orally and in writing, with users, leadership, and technical personnel.
• Willingness to serve as team lead for contractor staff assigned to the Task Order.

Qualifications

Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes