Integration Scheduler

Job Description

Job Description

Integration Scheduler

Location: Chantilly, VA

Clearance: Active Top-Secret (SCI Poly Eligible)

Job Description:

Senior-level Integration Schedulers work with systems engineers and program/project managers to identify and provide current status of the critical path in the NTM schedule and provide leadership with comprehensive integration scheduling activities: developing schedules, collecting and reviewing project and program data for updating and maintaining schedules, conducting critical path analysis, identifying dependencies, conducting predictive analyses, providing comprehensive visualization/reporting, coordinating with stakeholders on integration schedule impacts, and identifying inter-segment dependencies. Senior-Level Integration Schedulers provide definition, planning, and maintenance for robust tools and services to accomplish schedule activity, employing capabilities such as MS Project/Project Server, Primavera, or similar tools. Senior-Level Integration Schedulers lead and oversee regular reporting of schedule information to designated review activities and for leadership awareness.

Duties May Include:

• Create, manage, maintain and operate an automated enterprise schedule activity using

government approved schedule tool (e.g. Microsoft Project/Project Server), to allow for the

integration and assessment of schedule files and schedule data from Segments and Offices to support the Program schedule.

• Utilize schedule to identify external dependencies, impacts to effectivity timelines, and

support actionable communication of these observations to the Government and external

sites, as needed.

• Create various communications artifacts to support weekly/bi-weekly status briefings.
• Support interfaces with external customer systems, addressing integration directly with

necessary NGA Programs of Record and segments.

• Provide integration scheduling support for the review, preparation, development, and

technical exchange for network and infrastructure related RFCs, MOAs, MOUs, and other

agreements and change documents, as needed.

• Coordinate with project teams on schedule impacts and guide solutions/resolution of

technical issues, recording lessons learned.

• Ensure integration schedule across program, segment and project plans, and technical

roadmap achieves the delivery of capabilities and effectivities.

• Lead overall response for Engineering Program meetings both internal and with NGA/NSG, and schedule presentations for projects, programs and activities, by providing reports, Gantt

charts, and other visualization products, clearly communicating schedule expectations and/or status.

• Identify system development milestones that drive phasing of capabilities to meet enterprise epics or equivalent planning timeframes.
• Develop, manage, and maintain connection of strategic-level and enterprise-level

effectivities with lower-level Program/Segment/Project effectivities and milestones.

• Oversee program/segment/project scheduling, executable technical roadmap development, incremental reviews of schedule milestones and activities, and maintain schedule baselines as directed to ensure an informed enterprise level schedule.
• Assure critical path analysis and alternative scenarios are available to identify schedule

change impacts, associated risk, and develop mitigation plans.

• Collaborate with the Enterprise Release Management to facilitate coordinated capability

releases.

• Work with Enterprise MBSE tools to provide input and extract data.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management

Information Systems, or related science, technology, and mathematics (STEM) degree; or in

Business Administration or related field of study.

• Senior-level experience with IT technical development project or program scheduling.
• Senior-level experience developing and analyzing critical path.
• Demonstrated experience of segment integration, identifying inter-segment dependencies.
• Demonstrated proficiency in management and operation of Microsoft Project and Project

Server for definition, maintenance and reporting of project/program schedule information.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated proficiency in management and operation of Primavera or similar scheduling tool/service for definition, maintenance and reporting of project/program schedule information.
• Experience in government or industry in establishing, managing, and/or leading a

tool-based, schedule management and reporting process.

• Experience in government or industry in IT and Information Systems program management, or development and maintenance support procedures or processes.
• Experience in government or industry leading schedule management for developments using traditional or Agile and Scrum based methodology or application of methods.
• Project Management Institute-Scheduling Professional Certification (PMI-SP), AACE PSP

Certification, or Microsoft Project/Project Server Certification.

• Demonstrated experience overseeing and directing automation of scheduling tasks through preparation of macros, scripts or custom procedures.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project experience.
• Experience with IMS as defined by DI-MGMT-81861 Integrated Program Management

Report.

• Experience implementing MIL-STD-881D Work Breakdown Structures for Defense

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