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Senior IT Change Manager

Vekner Consulting
Springfield, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/19/2026
Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Change Manager on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

Internal and External Change Review Board Leadership
  • Reviews, validates, processes and presents change requests for coordination and approval.
  • Leads, plans, and facilitates the Internal (UDS) Change Review Board cadence, supporting multiple weekly internal (UDS) Change Review Board proceedings; prepare agendas, minutes, and action items.
  • Leads, plans, and Briefs enterprise level changes at External Change Review Boards, supporting multiple weekly external (Government-facing) Change Review Board proceedings to ensure enterprise level changes obtain all necessary stakeholder approval prior to planned start dates.
  • Ensures approved changes are documented, tracked, and implemented in accordance with agency direction and ChM standards.

Enterprise Change Management
  • Develops and maintains the Change Management Plan (ChM Plan) and updates it annually or when new requirements emerge.
  • Holds enterprise-wide training sessions to ensure adherence to the established practices and procedures.

Documentation & Artifact Management
  • Sustains accurate and up-to-date SOPs and workflows and ensures they are accessible to all stakeholders to establish and support a standard approach to Change Management across the UDS Program.
  • Supports creation and maintenance of reporting and dashboarding tools (Service CHG tracking).
  • Maintains version control, document lineage, and traceability for all Change Management artifacts.

Governance, Change Management & Compliance
  • Ensures all changes adhere to Government-established processes and change policies.
  • Coordinates with engineering teams to verify accuracy of proposed changes, implementation packages, and technical specifics.
  • Tracks and reports ChM-related risks, discrepancies, incomplete artifacts, or baseline drift.
  • Ensures that all ChM activities integrate with risk management, patch cycles, maintenance windows, STIG enforcement, and system hardening activities.
  • Ensures that all ChM activities comply with Periods of Non Disruption (POND) and Maintenance Freezes initiated or enforced by agency stakeholders.

Collaboration & Program Support
  • Works closely with the Governance Lead, Operations Leads, Senior Network Engineers and other program leads and stakeholders.
  • Provides ChM inputs during Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and project coordination meetings.
  • Ensures all changes are synchronized with desktop support, engineering, IT security, and desktop implementation teams.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5 years of experience in IT Change Management.

Desired Certifications:
  • Certifications such as ITIL, CMII, or similar ChM-focused credentials are a plus.

Required Skills:
  • Experience facilitating Change Review Boards or similar structured change processes in a DoW or large enterprise environment.
  • Skilled in maintaining plans, processes and procedures and technical documentation in an enterprise environment.
  • Familiarity with change documentation requirements. (risk assessments, redundancy, workarounds, backout or rollback plans)
  • Strong organizational, communication, and analytical skills.

Desired Skills:
  • Experience supporting IC, DoW or secure enterprise environments.
  • Familiarity with Jira/Confluence, ServiceNow, or similar ChM/ITSM tools.
  • Knowledge of enterprise datacenter and networking components (VMs, Severs, routers, switches, APs, controllers) preferred.
  • Experience with SAFe practices, Jira/Confluence, and ServiceNow in DoW environments.

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, founded in July 2004 to support the Intelligence Community and its contractors across Enterprise Analytics, IT & Systems Engineering, and Program & Project Management, merged with Valiant Solutions in January 2026 - an established provider of cybersecurity technologies and services for Federal Agencies since 2005. Together, this partnership creates a stronger, more integrated cybersecurity organization with expanded opportunities for employees, deeper technical collaboration, and a unified mission. With significant experience serving the Federal Government, we remain dedicated to our employees and clients and seek high-performing professionals who excel at providing guidance, developing solutions, and delivering implementation support that blends industry best practices with client expertise and Abile's broad technical capabilities.

Hiring Statement

Abile is committed to hiring the most qualified and best fit person for the job - always has, always will. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.

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