Founded in 2007, Markon Solutions is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

Join our winning team! We empower our employees to make decisions and encourage them to take on leadership roles. New ideas from employees are also encouraged. Markon is a place where you can truly demonstrate your capabilities to your full potential. We are consistently named a Washington Post Top Workplace and Best Place to Work in Virginia because we put our employees first. Markon offers an exceptional benefits package that ranks in the top tier of our industry.

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Description:

As a key member of the Cloud Project Management Office, you will be working closely with the Program Integration team on the development, integration and management of multiple cloud environments. You will be responsible for ensuring all Cloud Service Provider (CSP) development and integration of activities adhere to the defined standards, and coordinate development of relevant technical standards. You will help to maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and collect Key Performance Integrators (KPIs) to keep leadership and stakeholders informed of the overall program status. You will also be closely involved in the accreditation process for system deployment, ensuring adherence to the required Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs) as well as providing technical support to address issues identified during the process. In this job, you will:

• Coordinate Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Intelligence Community (IC) activities for cross-agency and cross-fabric workloads
• Develop and coordinate CSP mission user technical standards, guidance and best practices
• Support development of Multi-Cloud IC Engineering Standards
• Organize and facilitate integration and architecture meetings
• Develop Division and Group level KPIs, using statistical analysis models and standards
• Represent Division and Group at various technical, process improvement, and senior level management meetings
• Conduct security technical analysis and ensure access control, monitoring, and 'approved to use features' are incorporated into C2E service offerings
• Track, assess, and recommend use of emerging cloud technologies and services
• Assist in management of a master schedule that includes life cycle phases, milestones and control gates
• Identify, evaluate, document and apply process improvements to requirements management and other key process areas, to increase productivity
• Support analysis of system functionality and business processes to identify and recommend any area for improvement
• Develop and implement test plans as needed

Desired Skills:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, teamwork, technical writing, and communication skills
• Knowledge of fundamental cloud architecture, development of cloud-based web services, and programming languages
• Experience in overall project management such as project planning, project execution status monitoring and control, risk management, resource allocation and development of relevant project documents (5 - 10 years)
• Experience in managing a project master schedule that includes life cycle phases, milestones, and control gates (5 - 10 years)
• Ability to work in highly visible environment and brief customers and senior officials
• Ability to prioritize work, write in a highly professional manner
• Ability to analyze problems and identify viable solutions
• Able to work independently without close supervision; self-motivated and disciplined
• Ability to perform technical project management tasks
• Effective presentation, writing and communication skills
• Job related experience in: Project Management, Requirements Management, Service Delivery Management, Change Management