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 documentationAbility to discern requirements from customer and technical exchange meetingsProficient in making data-informed decisionsHands-on experience building a consensus across a wide range of stakeholdersStrong 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 verifiableEstablish 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 actionsWork closely with the technical leads and software engineers to develop and modify systems requirements documentation to meet the Sponsor’s need and explore potential solutionsCreate 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 needsImprove standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performanceAids 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 designAssess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management planEstablish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfacesAdapt processes to improve inefficiencies and accelerate solutions development by providing recommendations for continuous and consistent improvementTranslate, analyze data, and effectively report problems through written and graphical formatsApply 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 organizationsExperience using Jira and other project management software in a complex engineering environmentSkilled with qualitative and quantitative research methodsExperience as a Product Owner or other stakeholder in software developmentCapable 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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