IT Project Manager: Configuration Management & QA

Nationwide IT Services; Elizabeth City (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid holidays

PTO

Commuter benefits

Employee assistance program

Educational reimbursement

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Nationwide IT Services (NIS) seeks an IT Project Manager for configuration management and related disciplines at the USCG Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, NC. The role focuses on governance, traceability, and lifecycle management across the ISD portfolio.

The position requires five years of IT project management and supervisory experience, with active Secret clearance. On-site work and extensive collaboration with government and contractors are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or associate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Management, or a related field.
• PMP, ITIL, Configuration Management II, Certified Configuration Manager, Agile, Scrum, or comparable certification.
• At least five years of experience providing technical direction and IT project management.
• At least one additional year of supervisory or team-lead experience.
• At least two years of experience supporting change management and process improvement.
• Familiarity with all systems-development life-cycle phases and with information-systems engineering or system-integration projects.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Tier 1 background investigation for unclassified systems.
• Strong skills in documentation, facilitation, stakeholder coordination, risk management, analysis, organization, and written and oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage configuration-management, quality-assurance, testing, documentation, requirements, and architecture projects.
• Maintain project cost, schedule, resource, scope, risk, issue, dependency, and performance information.
• Coordinate the establishment and maintenance of application, hardware, software, data, infrastructure, and system-architecture baselines.
• Ensure proposed changes are evaluated, documented, tested, approved, implemented, verified, and incorporated into the appropriate baseline.
• Manage change requests through initial analysis, requirements validation, technical review, prioritization, governance-board review, testing, implementation, and closure.
• Coordinate and facilitate Design Review Board, Local Configuration Control Board, and Integrated Configuration Control Board activities.
• Develop meeting agendas, decision packages, minutes, action-item logs, decision records, and status reports for governance boards.
• Oversee software quality assurance, quality-control processes, test planning, regression testing, acceptance testing, release testing, promotion procedures, and discrepancy reporting.
• Ensure traceability among customer requirements, system requirements, designs, project plans, test results, changes, releases, and deployed configurations.
• Coordinate preparation and maintenance of standard operating procedures, process guides, technical specifications, data dictionaries, system diagrams, interface diagrams, architecture products, test scripts, and release documentation.
• Manage testing and artifact updates associated with operating-system patches, database patches, STIG remediation, vulnerability remediation, and software releases.
• Ensure hardware and software changes are reviewed for Authority to Operate and cybersecurity-artifact impacts.
• Coordinate business and requirements analysis for approved projects and IT support work plans.
• Develop and report change-management, testing, release, quality, discrepancy, risk, and project-performance metrics.
• Support maintenance of the Business Architecture Management Plan, enterprise architecture artifacts, system architecture baselines, data models, process diagrams, and interface documentation.
• Conduct regular project and team reviews to identify risks, training needs, process deficiencies, and corrective actions.
• Ensure personnel follow approved configuration-management and change-management processes.
• Coordinate with Development, Operations, Information Assurance, and Platform/Operational Technology personnel to ensure controlled and compliant releases.
• Provide written and oral project reports to Government and contractor leadership.

Skills

Documentation

Facilitation

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Analysis

Organization

Written and oral communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Associate degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Automated testing

Version control

Requirements management

Job description

Nationwide IT Services (NIS) seeks an IT Project Manager for configuration management and related disciplines at the USCG Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, NC. The role focuses on governance, traceability, and lifecycle management across the ISD portfolio.

The position requires five years of IT project management and supervisory experience, with active Secret clearance. On-site work and extensive collaboration with government and contractors are expected.