Deputy Project Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to government clients. The Deputy Project Manager will assist the Project Manager in managing complex programs and ensuring impactful mission outcomes, while also creating status reports, managing schedules, and supporting various project deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Create weekly status reports which include a detailed report containing technical details, a summarized version (for the client’s Chief Information Officer), a statused project schedule, and a project schedule summary
• Create monthly status reports, which include JIRA reports, spend plan, Earned Value Management Report, and Quality Report
• Assist with creating, maintaining, and statusing several schedules
• Create Monthly Performance Reports
• Create monthly PowerPoint presentations to be presented to client’s COR, Chief Information Officer, and other Government stakeholders; and present if PM is not available
• Assist with creating quarterly Integrated Baseline Review slide deck
• Create Sprint deliverables and ensure they are delivered on time and are checked into source control as necessary. Push appropriate resources to create/update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as needed. Write SOPs as necessary
• Assist with creating and peer reviewing multiple deliverables, such that they meet quality standards of the contract
• Create Statements of Work for subcontractors and create job requisitions as needed
• Handle on-boarding and off-boarding activities including ensuring forms for laptops have been properly signed and sent to GDIT property group
• Learn SETRIS and handle SETRIS issues for subcontractors. Contact submitters and approvers to get timesheets transmitted on time
• Be backup for PM for timesheet approvals
• Ensure, prior to an upgrade or patch to an environment, that an email has been sent to take backups, an email has been sent to users (if Production environment), and email was sent to turn off monitoring scripts for the environment
• Track what environment has what version installed (Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, Java, Oracle, Sprint, etc.)
• Create/update Confluence pages as needed
• Capture daily status in Confluence Daily Scrum page
• Perform some Scrum Master duties such as creating / statusing / closing / updating JIRA tickets
• Proactively follow up on tasks to be completed
• Participate in planning and budgeting exercises
• Builds and maintains relationships with client, customer staff, and end users
• Assist the team and client with decisions based on long-term and short-term aspects of the engagement
• Monitor progress to assure deadlines /standards are met
• Contribute to modernization and migration to Azure cloud activities

Requirements:

• Agile Project Management
• Project Deliverables
• Status Reporting
• Technical Projects
• 9 + years of related experience
• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• 10 years of project management experience with at least 5 years of intensive and progressive experience demonstrating the required proficiency levels related to the position
• Excellent writing, speaking and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated client-facing roles
• Proven track record of leading complex systems implementation or integration efforts
• Strong experience working for a senior leadership client, participating in briefings, presentations, and advisory sessions
• Experience managing relationships and dependencies with external teams
• Experience working in an Agile framework
• Experience with JIRA and JIRA reports
• Experience with Confluence
• Experience writing technical documentation
• Must have a Secret Clearance to start
• Experience working with business process management (BPM) products and Azure cloud SaaS-based implementations
• Some knowledge of radio transmitters and receivers, radar, antennas and satellites (radio spectrum)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification