Senior IT Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· The successful candidate is one who has had repeated success leading the delivery of medium to large scope IT initiatives of moderate complexity that involve obtaining agreement/adoption of project objectives and deliverables by key sponsors and stakeholders.

· The successful candidate also ensures that a comprehensive project plan is developed and maintained to track deliverables and progress toward completion on time and within budget, utilizes traditional as well as Agile based project management methodologies and tools throughout project lifecycle.

· This position typically works under limited supervision and direction.

· Plan, organize, lead, and deliver IT component of business projects within time, budget, and resource constraints.

· Define scope, goals, and deliverables to support the Stakeholders and Sponsors requirements.

· Create, maintains, and publish WBS for each project.

· Creates travel requests for deployments including schedule, detailed costs and daily activities.

• Determines Per Diem Rates for Airfare, Hotel and Food off GSA Schedule.

· Assigns work according to the plan and schedule. Reviews quality of work and manages integration of team members' work.

· Provide regular status updates to relevant business and IT stakeholders.

· Contribute, manage, and mitigate Risk and Issues Log for each project/initiative. Lead and communicate high severity items in a timely manner to resolution.

· Ensures that deliverables, artifacts, and repositories meet governance standards and are audit-ready.

· Develops roadmaps, including prioritization, estimation, resource capacity demand planning, risks, and dependencies.

· Develop and maintain positive working relationships with business partners throughout the enterprise.

· Maintain continuous communication and transparency.

· Assists in mentoring and knowledge sharing of fellow team members, as needed.

· Lead cross-functional project teams made up of internal and vendor IT resources.

· Leverages formal change management processes to manage changes to scope, cost, schedule and to ensure alignment in expectations.

· Tracks and drives resolution on open questions, issues and risks as well as develop risk mitigation plans.

 

Basic Qualifications:

·  Active DOJ Clearance Preferred

• PMP Certification Preferred

· Bachelor's degree in computer-related field, or equivalent work experience.

· 8+ years of experience in IT Project Management in both Waterfall and Agile environments.

· Experience managing infrastructure, application development and mobile technology projects.

· Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

· Experience with ITIL preferred.

· Experience with scoping projects.

· Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

· Ability to interact with individuals at all levels and roles, including IT team members, business partners, and external vendors.

· Must be able to create and manage a WBS.

· Ability to lead a cross-functional team to successfully create, design, and implement a project.

· Ability to clearly and concisely provide project status updates to senior management.

 

 

\nCompany Description

ARES Solutions, Inc (ARES), is an award-winning Small Business headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Our unwavering commitment to providing the highest level customer service enables our customers to concentrate on achieving their strategic and operation objectives. With a highly skilled workforce, we offer a broad range of technical services and management support to provide "best value" to our customers.

Our reputation for taking care of our customers and employees is demonstrated by our management's receipt of the USDA's Secretary's Honors Award, and the USDA's Small Business Contractor of the Year Award in 2004, 2005, and 2008. Long term relationships with customers and superior support services provided by an excellent technical staff with low turnover, are the cornerstone of our business.

ARES specializes in providing system and software engineering, software/web development, IV&V, T&E, computer security, networking, help desk, PM, and Intel support services to many Federal and DoD agencies.

Company Description

ARES Solutions, Inc (ARES), is an award-winning Small Business headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Our unwavering commitment to providing the highest level customer service enables our customers to concentrate on achieving their strategic and operation objectives. With a highly skilled workforce, we offer a broad range of technical services and management support to provide "best value" to our customers. \r\n\r\nOur reputation for taking care of our customers and employees is demonstrated by our management's receipt of the USDA's Secretary's Honors Award, and the USDA's Small Business Contractor of the Year Award in 2004, 2005, and 2008. Long term relationships with customers and superior support services provided by an excellent technical staff with low turnover, are the cornerstone of our business.\r\n\r\nARES specializes in providing system and software engineering, software/web development, IV&V, T&E, computer security, networking, help desk, PM, and Intel support services to many Federal and DoD agencies.