Senior Technical Project Manager

Simple Technology Solutions (STS) is currently recruiting for an anticipated proposal for a contract. This position is contingent upon contract award and client acceptance.

The Role

Simple Technology Solutions (STS) is looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to add to our team. In this role, the Senior Technical Project Manager will provide direct oversight and management with overall responsibility of contract activities: planning, organizing, directing, controlling, staffing and reporting status, deliverables and schedules to the Government client. 

The ideal candidate will have strong agile project management, IT service delivery management and IT tactical and strategic planning skills. The candidate will be a problem-solver with demonstrated experience developing and maintaining customer required methodologies, procedures, metrics and systems to produce reports to measure program success. To succeed in this role, one must be collaborative, forward thinking, and have exceptional communication skills.

The Senior Technical Project Manager at STS will: 

• Communicate with diverse customer stakeholder groups, including executive management, and require consensus building.
• Lead cross-functional, multi-vendor teams. 
• Interface with numerous cross-functional teams about their upcoming tasks
• Explore challenges and opportunities for improvement in existing processes and solutions
• Provide deep and thorough review of client requirements in support of team recommendations, as well as solutioning and product development.
• Foster collaboration with analysts, designers, and/or developers on research activities, strategy sessions, ideation, design, and product testing.
• Manage ongoing external and internal relationships and generate new strategic opportunities and scope expansion on the assigned contract(s).
• Present project status reports and facilitate product demos for our team and clients
• Manage complex spend plans and ensure program aspects are operating within established budgets.
• Direct interface to the customer and STS senior leadership on service related issues.
• Manage required escalations to address customer service delivery issues.
• Lead regular meetings between cross-functional business teams to review new program requests (intake), assess business purpose and benefits and ultimately determine overall business priority.
• Establish and maintain a firm understanding of the Client’s IT infrastructure.
• Maintain routine performance reporting, meeting cadence and feedback loop with Client, Stakeholders, and Management, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and as needed.
• Maintain a technical ‘Strategic Plan’ including initiative identification, recommendations, prioritization, scoping and establishing next steps to move them forward.
• Constantly assess Client sentiment and feedback to identify areas for focus and improvement.

Required Experience and Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field or study. 
• A minimum of eight (8) or more years of position related experience  an Enterprise IT environment
• Project Management experience in an Agile software development environment, including methodologies related to software lifecycle management.
• Experience with requirements tools and tracking (e.g. JIRA, Version One).
• Experience conducting daily scrum stand-up meetings, facilitating Sprint planning meetings and coordinating Sprint reviews, retrospectives, and burn-down charts.
• Experience defining all project activities and milestones required to meet objectives and deliverables, properly sequencing tasks and estimating effort with project team members doing the work, determining the critical path, and leveling the project schedule.
• Experience monitoring program execution to identify obstacles and deviations from plan and take corrective action as needed.
• Experience conducting continuous risk assessment and management including developing measures to reduce risk in program execution.
• Experience developing metrics and reports for tracking program execution.
• Experience with contract management, budgeting, and resource allocation, including management of subcontractor personnel.
• Proficient in development of plans, assigning tasks, monitoring performance, communicating progress, resolving conflicts, and escalating issues.
• Experience with all aspects of configuration management planning including configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, configuration documentation.

Required Certifications:

• PMP
• ITIL
• CSM
• SAFe

Additional Requirements

• US Citizenship is required to obtain required clearance

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package 
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans 
• Professional development and training 
• Performance-based incentives
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching 
• $300 work from home stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays 
• Flexible work schedule
• Company paid wellness benefits through Classpass
• $5K professional development budget to be used for training and certifications
• Student loan repayment assistance through Gradfin

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