Principal Information Systems Project Manager - R10232977

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technology solutions and is seeking a Principal Information Systems Project Manager. The role involves providing leadership and direction to project teams, managing project schedules, budgets, and compliance, while serving as a liaison with customers.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and track status of projects, metrics, financial budgets, and EACs; manage schedules and prepare status reports; and ensure project remediation and ongoing compliance goals are met
• Create, review, and finalize the project Statement of Work (SOW)
• Assist the project management leadership team in assessing, documenting, and tracking of all new assigned project requirements
• Prepare project execution plans and identify the appropriate technical and business resources required
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining standards, tools, and best practices
• Lead and direct the assigned project team to meet cost, schedule, and technical objectives
• Adopt a positive attitude about Agile processes, ensure tasks are flowing from one phase to the next, and facilitate the basics of the process (i.e. transparency, project information is current, impediments are being eliminated)
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of customers life-cycles, standards, and supporting processes and practices
• Develop customer relationships and cultivate customer intimacy
• Candidates will utilize their excellent written and oral communication skills
• Candidates will utilize their problem solving skills with integrated team including but not exclusive to the program manager, functional managers, and customers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience
• Candidates must have the ability to obtain a US Government Secret level security clearance (at a minimum)
• Must have experience with project planning, scheduling and cost performance / Earned Value Management
• Experience with integrated team including but not exclusive to the program manager, functional managers, and customers
• Experience in communicating with various levels of leadership
• Experience leading and managing multiple concurrent and complex project assignments
• Active Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, SAP/SAR access, or Polygraph is preferred
• Experience with project management tools and presenting project data such as status, risk, and deliverables to key stakeholders
• Experience leading and managing IT related projects in an Agile environment
• Experience using tools that support agile processes such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework and working as part of an Agile Development (Scrum) team
• Experience with Multiple Agile teams in different organizations
• PMP Certification
• Agile or SCRUM certifications