F-35 Senior IT Project Manager | Active Secret clearance

General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company. They are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager responsible for designing, leading, and governing schedule and WBS practices across a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring effective delivery outcomes and adherence to project requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with PMO/leadership to define and implement standards, methods, and best practices for IT project scheduling and WBS development across the portfolio
• Continuously improve scheduling practices, templates, and guidelines based on lessons learned and industry standards
• Own the design and integrity of the master IT project schedule in Microsoft Project Server
• Analyze schedule data to identify cross-project impacts, critical paths, resource/contention issues, and recommend mitigation strategies
• Lead the design and refinement of WBSs and WBS dictionaries for IT projects based on business and technical requirements
• Facilitate workshops with project managers, product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to decompose scope into well-defined work packages
• Ensure WBSs are traceable to requirements, aligned with deliverables, and suitable for robust scheduling and reporting
• Serve as the primary coach and advisor to IT project managers on WBS development, schedule structuring, and use of Project Server
• Provide practical guidance on defining activities, sequencing tasks, setting dependencies, estimating durations, and managing baselines
• Promote adoption of consistent scheduling practices, templates, and naming conventions to improve quality and comparability across projects
• Lead selected complex IT projects (e.g., new product/service launches, platform upgrades, software implementations) end-to-end
• Develop comprehensive project plans, manage risks and issues, oversee change control, and ensure delivery against scope, schedule, and quality objectives
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (business, development, infrastructure, security, operations, vendors) to drive execution
• Use advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, advanced data analysis) to interpret schedule and portfolio data and provide insights to leadership
• Proactively identify schedule risks and bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions and scenario options

Requirements:

• 10 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required
• 10+ years of IT project management experience with advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project Server, and project management best practices, capable of both leading complex IT projects and elevating the scheduling capability of a team of project managers
• Experience in analyzing program/project status and providing documentation to support project/program
• Experience with ITSM based services
• Required Certifications: DoD 8140.03 Work Role (802) IT Project Manager - Basic. Industry Certifications: PMP and ITIL Foundations (ITIL to be achieved within 3 months of hiring)
• Education: BS or BA degree. Allowable Substitution: An additional 6 years of experience is required without a BS/BA degree. An additional 4 years of experience is required with an AA/AS degree