Project Lead - TS/SCI w/ Poly

Project Lead - TS/SCI w/ Poly

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

CACI is seeking a Project Lead for our Luke Team! You will contribute to the overall program success in several areas, including financial and cost reporting, schedule estimation and tracking, risk management, requirements analysis, and quality assurance activities. The purpose of the ODNI's Luke contract, is to provide dev ops, applied technology investigations, operations and maintenance and infrastructure lifecycle support services across the ODNI's enterprise. Our support in Bethesda includes software engineering/development, O&M, technology investigations, customer advocacy, business process engineering, and system design. Invent your future and make a lasting impact at CACI!

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Ensure proper performance of tasks necessary to ensure the most efficient and effective execution of the contract.

• Utilize expert communication skills needed to direct the skilled resources and report on the progress, issues, and problem areas, as well as write and review programmatic documents.

• Assist in the timely recruitment and training of program staff - both direct and indirect.

• Remove project obstacles and roadblocks to develop solutions with team.

• Ensure milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle.

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners.

• Document progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders.

• Provide recurring or ad hoc project status reports.

• Coordinate meeting invites, develop meeting agendas, facilitate meetings, develop meeting minutes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field of study

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Poly (US Citizenship required)

• Must be well versed in full systems development life cycle, strategic information planning, and knowledge management practices.

• Experience working with and managing expectations of multiple Product Owners.

• Must be able to identify, communicate, and develop mitigation plans for risks to the program.

• Demonstrated experience successfully managing disparately located personnel.

• Demonstrated and current experience managing program delivering systems/tools/solutions in production, while transitioning to better technology solutions.

• Must be able to provide oral and written discussion of analytical findings using narrative and graphic forms.

• Must possess excellent communication skills and be able to facilitate and document meetings effectively

• Should be able to identify symptoms for process improvement.

• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and supervision.

• Able to identify and communicate sprint goals, create project outlines and timelines and distribute responsibilities to team members.

• Familiar with leveraging and administering Atlassian tools such as Confluence, Jira, as well as version control tools such as GitHub.

• Working knowledge of the systems development life cycle, strategic information planning, and knowledge management practices.

• Demonstrated experience working with and managing expectations of multiple Product Owners.

Desired Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional Certification

• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework 5.1 / DEVOPS a

• Experience with Systems Engineering and/or Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE).

• Possess analytic problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of computer software applications, including database technologies and programming languages

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Detail oriented skills

What we can offer you:

At CACI, our philosophy of employee development and advancement rests on a cultural foundation of providing unlimited and equal opportunity for growth, recognition, and rewards. We provide the environment, support and responsive, available management to nurture and stretch your abilities. We also offer a career mobility program to make it easy to build a dynamic career at CACI and offer flexible work schedule arrangements to support work/life balance.

• CACI has been named one of Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies for 2022

• CACI also has more than 20 Communities of Practice to share and gain skills and knowledge regarding various technologies and topics including SAP, Salesforce, Agile Development, and many more. The associated Learning Academies provide training and certifications to gain additional skills and build your brand.

• We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities

• We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities

• With over 25,000 employees worldwide, CACI has been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post

• For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success

Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.