Project Manager

NSS; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NSS is seeking a Project Manager to serve as the primary day-to-day interface with the customer, accountable for schedule, scope, resources, risks, quality, and delivery performance.

The role requires a hands-on leader who can anticipate issues, drive decisions, and coordinate multi-stream work with minimal Government intervention.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8–10 years of experience managing complex Federal IT programs.
• 5+ years managing Agile application development or implementation projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, deliverables, and resources.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum, SDLC, DevSecOps, and modern delivery practices.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with Government program managers, CORs, and stakeholders.
• Experience managing subcontractors and cross-organization delivery.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• Active Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of a modernization project from kickoff through MVP and deployment.
• Develop and manage the integrated project schedule, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Lead an Agile delivery model with two-week sprints, sprint planning, backlog management, demos, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate functional, architecture, development, integration, data, testing, security, training, and O&M activities.
• Maintain visibility into progress and proactively identify risks and mitigations.
• Manage risk, issue, action, and decision processes and drive corrective actions.
• Track performance against baseline schedule and address variances with adjustments.
• Coordinate development and quality review of contract deliverables meeting SOW and acceptance criteria.
• Manage subcontractor and partner performance within Team Southpoint.
• Facilitate effective communication among stakeholders and leaders.
• Provide concise status reporting on accomplishments, activities, risks, and decisions.
• Support requirements traceability from business requirements to deployment.
• Lead knowledge transfer and transition planning.
• Promote continuous improvement using lessons learned and metrics.

Skills

Multidisciplinary leadership

Agile/Scrum

Executive communication

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Job description

What You Will Get to Do:

The Project Manager will serve as the primary day-to-day interface with the customer and will be accountable for schedule, scope, resources, risks, quality, deliverables, and overall delivery performance. The role requires a hands‑on leader who can anticipate issues, drive decisions, coordinate technical and functional workstreams, and maintain delivery momentum with minimal Government intervention.

This role requires residency within the Washington Metropolitan Area, with the ability and willingness to travel to the client's site in Falls Church, VA three days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of a modernization project from kickoff through MVP, production deployment, stabilization, and transition.
• Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated project schedule, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and Government decision points.
• Lead an Agile delivery model using two-week sprints, including sprint planning, backlog management, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Coordinate functional, architecture, development/configuration, integration, data, testing, security, training, change management, and O&M activities.
• Maintain visibility into project progress and proactively identify schedule, technical, staffing, security, integration, and operational risks.
• Maintain and manage the project risk, issue, action, and decision processes; drive mitigation and corrective actions before issues affect critical milestones.
• Track project performance against the baseline schedule and rapidly address variances through resource adjustments, task resequencing, or other corrective actions.
• Coordinate development and quality review of contract deliverables and ensure deliverables meet SOW requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Manage subcontractor and partner performance as part of a single integrated Team Southpoint delivery organization.
• Facilitate effective communication among stakeholders, subject matter experts, technical teams, security personnel, and contractor leadership.
• Provide concise status reporting on accomplishments, upcoming activities, schedule, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions.
• Support requirements traceability from business requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and acceptance.
• Lead knowledge transfer and transition planning.
• Promote continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned, delivery metrics, user feedback, and operational performance into subsequent releases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience managing complex Federal IT programs.
• 5+ years managing Agile application development or implementation projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, deliverables, and resources.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum, SDLC, DevSecOps, and modern application delivery practices.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project or comparable project management and collaboration tools.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with Government program managers, CORs, business stakeholders, and technical leadership.
• Experience managing subcontractors and coordinating delivery across multiple organizations.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• Active Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain.

Desired Qualifications

• PMP certification.
• Scrum Master, SAFe, or comparable Agile certification.
• Experience supporting federal law enforcement/justice organization.
• Experience managing Microsoft Power Platform, low-code, SaaS/PaaS, or enterprise workflow modernization implementations.
• Experience delivering systems involving complex workflow automation, case management, scheduling, external users, or high-volume transactional processes.