Project Manager

Overview

REI Systems provides reliable, effective, and innovative technology solutions that advance federal, state, local, and nonprofit missions. Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization approach in delivering our application modernization, grants management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. Mindful Modernization is the REI Way of delivering mission impact by aligning our government customers’ strategic objectives to measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology. Learn more at REIsystems.com. 

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Responsibilities

Project Overview:  

The Project Manager provides leadership, oversight, and management of a complex project, which covers a portfolio task orders; ensures performance against contract and project requirements; serves as a single point of accountability and responsibility to the government; coordinates and ensures completion of deliverables, and other contractual requirements; performs risk management; develops and implements long-term project strategies, roadmaps, and monitors execution to ensure alignment of tactical activities; manages project budget, evaluates performance against design and schedule requirements and constraints; provides oversight across range of project-types (waterfall, agile, lean, etc.) and project complexities; consults and advises senior Federal leadership; ensures Federal leaders have actionable information in a timely manner necessary to obtain decision/guidance to facilitate project execution.

The Project Manager:

• Is the owner of customer-facing project delivery for IT solutions and strive to meet product delivery, quality, and budget goals• Works with and through both functional and technical project team members to deliver solutions in an agile manner.• Effectively plans, coordinates, executes, monitors, and manages work requests and related tasks utilizing strong and pervasive project management expertise for IT projects and IT management.• Understands project requirements from both a business and a technical standpoint and serves as the liaison between business users and the project team.• Demonstrates leadership skills to manage project resources and cultivate strong customer relationships.
• Performs financial planning, forecasting, and corrective actions to ensure the program adheres to budget.• Manages contractual, financial, and personnel related issues associated with project delivery.• Performs project resource management and capacity planning to make optimal use of resources.• Regularly monitors and measures project performance.• Develops strategies for contingency planning and risk mitigation; identifies and solves project issues effectively.
• Interact with teams to plan and implement projects, define tasks, and manage timelines while tracking deliverables
• Work with the product owners to develop roadmap, releases plan, and sprints including risks, and dependencies for optimization and modernization efforts
• Work with government COR and deliver on contractual milestones• Supports new customer demos, and other pre-sales activities as needed.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of managing multiple cross-disciplinary IT teams, and related work experience with the following qualifications:

  • Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan and lead technology assignments.
  • Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
  • Functions as a technical expert across multiple project efforts with the ability to communicate complex technical aspects to Government Leadership.
  • Certifications in Agile Project Management or equivalent, e.g. SAFe, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional.
  • Project Management experience in planning, estimating, resourcing, executing, monitoring, and managing information technology projects, preferably in technical areas such as:
  • Business value driven requirement gathering
  • Agile software application development and modernization
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, manage, execute, and monitor projects requiring compliance with:
  • Software Project management frameworks and systems engineering lifecycles
  • Agile software development lifecycles
  • Task level cost and schedule estimation, tracking, reporting, and management
  • Demonstrated and validated ability to address corrective actions and to follow proper escalation protocols and procedures with technical monitors, COR, the IT organization and with the project sponsors
  • Strong leadership skills to define requirements for project risks
  • Excellent organizational, presentation, and customer service skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence.
  • Previous Experience managing projects for the Federal Government
   

Education:Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or another technical related field

PMP and Certifications in Agile Project Management or equivalent, e.g. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional.

Clearance: Public trust/ Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Location/Remote: Hybrid- Washington DC

Covid Policy Disclosure: Should the essential functions of this position require that the employee performing this role work on-site at REI’s Sterling location the following requirements will apply:  the individual holding this position must be fully vaccinated, as defined in CDC guidance, as a condition of continued employment. REI will consider requests to be excused from this policy whenever necessary to comply with legal requirements and will consider any requests for reasonable accommodations due to a disability, religion, or other exemptions on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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