IT Project Manager

Acara Solutions, An Aleron Company; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company in Tampa, FL is seeking an experienced R&D Project Manager to manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring they meet budget and schedule goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Agile methodologies, project management, and must be eligible for a DoD Secret Security Clearance. This role offers a competitive salary of up to $110k and responsibilities include managing budgets, facilitating communication across teams, and driving project outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience in project management.
• 2 years in a leadership role for program/project management.
• Must be eligible for DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects with complex funding profiles.
• Perform budget and forecasting activities for projects.
• Align project resources to budget and schedule.

Skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Risk management

Budget forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical area

PMP Certification

Tools

JIRA

AzureDevOps

Job description

Overview

The R&D Project Managers is a key role of the Technology and Product Development (TPD) Team that delivers forward leaning technology, products, and solutions to our client through research and development initiatives. The ideal R&D Project Manager possesses a strong working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as traditional project management skills. An R&D Project manager owns cost and schedule performance for a portfolio of projects and delivers monthly reports on each project to TPD leadership. This role works directly with project, technical and product leadership within the engineering team to achieve project outcomes on schedule, in scope and on budget. Additionally, this role is the primary interface to support groups outside of engineering like finance, procurement, and subcontracts for each project. The TPD team is executing a complex R&D strategy to serve business needs of our client and across the globe. R&D project managers ensure we meet that challenge on time and on budget.

Location: Tampa, FL 33614

Pay Expectations: Up to $110k

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to manage multiple projects with complex funding profiles
• Perform all budget and forecasting related activities for projects across the portfolio
• Strategize with leaders to develop best practices for the project management process
• Execute the project review cycle process
• Align project resources to project budget and schedule
• Ensure skills of engineering resources aligned to execution needs
• Work with TPD Product Management team to ensure product need and roadmap are aligned to budget
• Identify and mitigate risks to schedule and costs
• Monitor and control the billing milestones schedule to include intercompany purchase orders
• Develop and maintain deliverables, KPMs & OKRs per TPD execution cadence
• Drive all purchasing with the D&S procurement team for the assigned projects
• Participate in the Scaled Agile Process by attending project team events
• Responsible for Control Account Management (CAM) duties for assigned projects in the context of SAFe execution
• Interface with business functions outside of engineering for reporting and process compliance
• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve processes in TPD

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical area, may be waived with PMP Certification & prior experience.
• 5 years of relevant experience
• 2 years owning a leadership role for program/project, years may be offset if well qualified candidate possesses a PMP certification
• Expertise in Agile tools such as JIRA and AzureDevOps.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Earned Value Management.
• Ability to travel < 20%.
• Must be eligible for DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Scaled Agile Framework Certification.
• Strong presentation skills including preparing impactful material and delivering the message.
• History writing proposal responses, SOWs and other contract related documentation.
• Background in Agile Software development framework
• Experience writing features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to read and interpret DoD and company regulations.
• Compilation of data and statistical analysis.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.