Description

SAIC is looking for Project Management Analyst to join our team supporting an important US government agency in the National Capital Region. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team of engineers and coordinate the IT infrastructure implementation and upgrades to critical IT systems and applications.

**This position will require on site work in downtown Washington, DC 2 days per week.

The customer manages and maintains a roadmap of IT infrastructure projects and upgrades that are prioritized and tasked to support contractors. Major tasks and projects include: implementing CI/CD with Azure DevSecOps technology stack, Azure Cloud adoption, Cloud Infrastructure build out, Windows and Linux operating system upgrades, Oracle and SQL server upgrades, datacenter migrations, EOSL monitoring and more.

The Project Management Analyst will:

• Assist individual project and program managers, contract and federal SME’s, and platform teams with comprehensive monitoring and reporting on the overall health of programs, initiatives, and/or a portfolio
• Perform holistic analysis across multiple projects to identify performance concerns for a program or new initiatives. Create comprehensive reports to showcase project timelines and progress.
• Work closely with project co-leads to organize, evaluate, and coordinate meetings focused on internal program activities
• Act as the lead coordinator for the program’s Program Management Office (PMO)
• Work with IT project managers for implementing and maintaining the project management structure using Agile framework, leading day-to-day coordination of the project activities by analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards, and setting deadlines, creating deliverables and providing reporting progress against the plan to senior executives
• Has an overall responsibility of ensuring all tasks are completed within timelines, consulting and coordinating with the appropriate Government Senior Manager for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, training needs, and task clarification
• Establishing and implementing streamlined processes and procedures, enabling the project team to rapidly respond to surge requirements for increased contract personnel
• Assigning and reviewing the work of cloud systems analysts, cloud architects, cloud engineers, etc. for the build out of the project roadmap, scope, and schedule

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ of project analyst experience in a federal space in the areas of Information Technology, IT infrastructure, and/or Operations and Maintenance. 

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Agile methodology, Scrum framework Knowledge and experience
• Candidate must have broad knowledge of current Information Technology systems, Infrastructures, and cloud platforms and technologies
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with a large community of stakeholders
• Leadership skills to successfully manage diverse teams
• Preferred strong understanding of AzureDevOps, taking meeting minutes, SDLC and Cloud platforms, a strong working knowledge of network technologies and concepts, Active Directory, Windows OS, and Desktop and cloud applications such as Office365 and SharePoint Online. 

Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.