IT Program Manager

Job Description

Description

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development and deployment, targeting and intelligence analysis, systems engineering and integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community (IC), is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives, while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance.

SAIC’s National Intelligence Community (NIC) Business Unit, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking an IT Program Manager who will deliver development requirements, as requested from a Scrum team, to provide status updates to the Project Owner, deliver information security accreditation requirements, as requested, continuously evaluate program progress and incoming information to ensure the program is progressing on schedule, and assist the Product Owner with the assessment of program requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Assisting the Product Owner with mitigating or avoiding risks, and alleviating program issues
• Coordinating stakeholder engagements such as user requirements sessions and trainings
• Preparing meeting agendas and gather meeting minutes
• Tracking Point of Contacts (POCs), and tasks and action items to meet program deadlines
• Completing tasks within the approved sprint cycle timeframe

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph
• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline. Note that years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in the following:

• Working in an Agile Scrum team environment
• Managing IT projects
• Presenting financial data to non-financial experts
• Using issue tracking applications such as Jira (preferred) or similar with requirements analysis
• Using team collaboration tools such as Confluence (preferred) or similar using Scrum methods
• Serving as Scrum Master to deliver highly complex software systems with multiple integrations
• Incorporating practices such as sprint planning, continuous integration, testing, and deployment and delivery of minimum value increments

Desired:  

• Experience working with financial data sets
• One or more of the following certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.