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Req ID: RQ182271

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Project/Task Management

Skills:

Agile Methodology,Communication,Project Planning

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Project/Task Manager

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Project/Task Manager by serving as a Subject Matter Expertise as an intelligence professional supporting a wide range of intelligence missions. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Project/Task Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Project/Task Manager joining our team to use their significant intelligence and business expertise to play a key leadership role within a high performing Agile delivery team focused on delivering mission critical applications. They will research software systems, present ideas for system improvements, and conduct impact analysis for software changes to provide high-value features to our customer. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong subject matter expertise in intelligence tradecraft and requirements analysis skills combined with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts. This Product Manager will have applied experience working in a dynamic Agile/Scrum environment with shifting priorities and requirements under little supervision to prioritize initiative, understand functional requirements, and document findings.

HOW A PROJECT/TASK MANAGER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

● Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned project. Supervises at least 15 employees

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

● Required Experience: Possess at least five (5) years subject matter expertise as an intelligence professional supporting a wide range of intelligence missions

● Required Technical Skills:

• Experience developing technical and/or product documentation

• Ability to discern requirements from customer and technical exchange meetings

• Proficient in making data-informed decisions

• Hands-on experience building a consensus across a wide range of stakeholders

• Strong briefing and writing skills are a must as well as the ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision

● Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly

● Required Skills and Abilities:

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable

• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions

• Work closely with the technical leads and software engineers to develop and modify systems requirements documentation to meet the Sponsor’s need and explore potential solutions

• Create and manage the product roadmap; facilitate and write user stories and acceptance criteria; and define, design, and develop testing protocols.

• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs

• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance

• Aids in coordinating the creation of user acceptance test scenarios to be used in testing the applications to verify the customer's requirements are incorporated into the system design

• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan

• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces

• Adapt processes to improve inefficiencies and accelerate solutions development by providing recommendations for continuous and consistent improvement

• Translate, analyze data, and effectively report problems through written and graphical formats

• Apply best practices in project management, including those used to initiate, plan, control, monitor, and report upon all phases of project

● Preferred Skills:

• Proficient in synthesizing business and/or software requirements across multiple organizations

• Experience using Jira and other project management software in a complex engineering environment

• Skilled with qualitative and quantitative research methods

• Experience as a Product Owner or other stakeholder in software development

• Capable in leading process improvements and organizational change

● Location: On Customer Site

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

● 401K with company match

● Comprehensive health and wellness packages

● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. 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.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.