NASA Project Manager

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking experienced, energetic, forward-thinking technical initiative leads to join our team as we continue to provide digital transformation services to our customers. The successful candidate will be excited to work in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment and will have experience leading web application projects throughout the entire software lifecycle. 

Our teams will be developing or modernizing applications that run in private and commercial cloud infrastructures. As such, the candidate should have familiarity with applications that use virtualization, containers, and cloud services – with a focus on platforms such as Java, OpenShift, and Kubernetes is a plus.

Our vision at SAIC is to be the premier technology integrator in our market. In SAIC’s Software Solutions organization, we are transforming software design, development and deployment for our customers throughout the federal government. Our matrix structure enables career mobility across 150+ projects within our software portfolio.

Technical Initiative Lead will perform the following functions supporting NASA projects:

• Lead, monitor, and motivate different teams across the company and interact with staff at all levels in the organization
• Create and manage methods of management, communication plans, and processes
• Analyze, plan, and develop procedures and other management and technical duties
• Define the scope of the project, roles, and responsibilities along with various stakeholders
• Participate in the allocation of budget, staff and any other resource(s) that are needed to accomplish or achieve set out goals (projects), and also monitor the performance of every project
• Maintain correct project time frames, estimates, and status reports
• Responsible for the management of complex problems and development of processes for scheduling and administration
• Make sure that all required projects are completed and reviewed
• Responsible for identifying, clarifying, and communicating the vision(s) and/or objective(s) of projects and show how they fall in place with, enhance, or inhibits such vision(s) and/or objective(s)
• Provide process improvement recommendations that are based on best practices and industry standards

Qualifications

Required Education:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

Desired Education: 

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in any IT-related discipline

Required Skills: 

• Good and effective communication and leadership skills
• Good interpersonal skills so as to be able to relate with people or personnel from different units of the company
• Excellent numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Good knowledge and understanding of relevant IT applications
• Ability to build relationship across many fronts
• Ability to focus and pay attention to details at all times
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual with little or no supervision
• 3-5 years of relevant working experience in a project management setting
• Any other certification would be a plus

Clearance: 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance

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.