Senior IT Project Manager - DoD Programs (Onsite)

IGNITE; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IGNITE is seeking a driven IT Project Manager to join our Huntsville team on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This on-site role will plan, coordinate, and deliver IT projects from concept through implementation and operational acceptance, serving as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, resources, risks, quality, and stakeholder coordination.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of senior project-management experience, DoD Army IT exposure, and holds CompTIA Security+ and PMP

Qualifications

• Minimum: 10+ years of senior project-management experience.
• Experience managing IT projects from concept through final implementation and handoff.
• Experience defining scope and developing detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, status reports, and risk responses.
• Experience coordinating end users, technical teams, client services, vendors, subcontractors, security personnel, and Government stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, quality, risks, issues, changes, and stakeholder communications.
• Working knowledge of DoD/Army IT environments, cybersecurity/RMF, configuration control, technical documentation, and service transition.
• Strong facilitation, organization, analysis, technical writing, briefing, and customer-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and work on-site at Redstone Arsenal.
• CompTIA Security+ and PMP are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned IT projects from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, implementation, acceptance, and closeout.
• Serve as the primary project point of contact for Government stakeholders, technical teams, users, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Define and control project scope, objectives, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, status reports, risk registers, and action-item logs.
• Lead project meetings, technical coordination sessions, milestone reviews, and implementation-readiness reviews.
• Track performance, analyze variances, identify emerging risks, and implement timely corrective or recovery actions.
• Coordinate cybersecurity, architecture, engineering, testing, configuration management, documentation, training, and operational-transition activities.
• Ensure project work and deliverables comply with PWS requirements, quality standards, security controls, approved baselines, and Government direction.
• Manage vendor and subcontractor tasks and review their deliverables for timeliness, completeness, and quality.
• Provide clear status, decisions, risks, issues, and recommendations to the Program Manager and Government stakeholders.
• Capture lessons learned and recommend process improvements for future projects.

Skills

Facilitation

Organization

Analysis

Technical writing

Briefing

Customer management

Education

MA/MS

BA/BS with 7+ years experience

Tools

VMware

OpenShift

Windows/Linux servers

Job description

IGNITE is seeking a driven IT Project Manager to join our Huntsville team on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This on-site role will plan, coordinate, and deliver IT projects from concept through implementation and operational acceptance, serving as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, resources, risks, quality, and stakeholder coordination.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of senior project-management experience, DoD Army IT exposure, and holds CompTIA Security+ and PMP