Technical Service Delivery / Project Manager - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics IT; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior IT Project Manager to own the integrated delivery plan, cadence, dependencies, and governance for complex enterprise projects.

You will lead cloud, identity, AI, data, cybersecurity, and ServiceNow initiatives, translating requirements into detailed schedules, milestones, and resource needs while coordinating with government stakeholders and contractors. A rigorous, disciplined approach and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Eng, MIS, Business or related field.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible IT project management experience.
• US citizenship and TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation and government-customer communication skills.
• Experience delivering IC environments with multiple technical domains and shared resources.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated delivery plan, execution cadence, dependencies, and governance readiness.
• Lead multiple concurrent projects across cloud, identity, AI, data, cybersecurity, and ServiceNow.
• Translate requirements into integrated schedules, milestones, owners, and resource assumptions.
• Build and maintain master schedule showing critical paths, dependencies, and forecast dates.
• Prioritize work based on mission value, government commitments, risk reduction and capacity.
• Resolve shared SME conflicts across architecture, security, and ops; document decisions and owners.
• Maintain disciplined controls with aging, triggers, escalation and change control.
• Facilitate planning sessions, risk reviews, readiness reviews, and cutover coordination.
• Apply predictive, Agile and hybrid delivery methods while preserving forecast accuracy.

Skills

IT Projects

Project Management

Requirements Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

• Skills: Information Technology (IT) Projects, Project Management, Requirements Analysis
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 10 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description:

The Senior IT Project Manager will own the integrated delivery plan, execution cadence, dependency and critical-path visibility, resource-conflict resolution, governance-stage readiness, and transparent customer reporting for assigned projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple concurrent cloud/M365, identity, EUC/VDI, AI, data, application, observability, automation, cybersecurity, network, ServiceNow, and service-improvement projects from approved intake through deployment and operational acceptance.
• Translate approved requirements, architectures, and delivery objectives into integrated work breakdown structures, schedules, milestones, dependencies, owners, resource assumptions, decision points, and measurable completion criteria.
• Build and maintain an integrated master schedule or equivalent authoritative plan showing critical and near-critical paths, cross-project dependencies, resource loading, external constraints, governance gates, and forecast dates.
• Prioritize and sequence work using mission value, Government commitments, urgency, technical dependencies, risk reduction, resource capacity, security/ATO lead time, maintenance windows, procurement, and operational impact.
• Control work in progress and identify harmful multitasking, context switching, over-allocation, and false parallelism; recommend explicit scope, schedule, resource, or priority trade-offs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Resolve shared-SME and shared-environment conflicts across architecture, engineering, Security, Service Operations, test, vendors; document decisions, impacts, owners, and escalation deadlines.
• Maintain disciplined controls across all project elements, with clear aging, impacts, triggers, ownership, deadlines, mitigation, and escalation.
• Facilitate integrated planning sessions, technical delivery reviews, risk reviews, schedule challenge sessions, production-readiness reviews, cutover coordination, recovery sessions, and after-action reviews.
• Apply predictive, Agile, and hybrid delivery methods appropriately while preserving an honest integrated forecast, architecture/security gates, configuration control, acceptance criteria, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders, product and requirements owners, architects, engineers, Security, Service Operations, Program Operations, finance, contracts, vendors, and subcontractors maintaining decision authority.
• Plan for procurement, licensing, environment access, data/model transfer, ATO/RMF activities, vendor dependencies, lab and test capacity, maintenance windows, change approvals, training, communications, and sustainment.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and benefits; detect variance early; develop recovery options; re-baseline through authorized change control; preserve the history and rationale of commitments.
• Ensure deployments have validated requirements and acceptance criteria, tested implementation, security and operational approvals, monitoring, rollback, documentation, knowledge transfer, support ownership, and post-deployment verification.
• Coach workstream leads and team members.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field, or approved equivalent experience.
• Location: On-site
• Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 10+ years of progressively responsible IT project management, technical program delivery, or service-delivery experience, including at least 5 years personally leading multiple concurrent complex enterprise IT projects or workstreams.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, executive-briefing, and Government-customer communication skills.
• Demonstrated delivery experience in IC environments involving multiple technical domains, stakeholder groups, and shared resources.
• Proven ability to build and manage work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, resource/capacity plans, milestones, baselines, forecasts, and recovery plans.
• Demonstrated skill prioritizing and sequencing competing work under constrained capacity, including documented decisions to pause, defer, reduce scope, re-sequence, or stop work when warranted.
• Experience managing projects through requirements, engineering analysis, design, integration, build/test, production readiness, deployment, validation, transition, and operational acceptance.
• Working technical literacy across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity/RMF, networks, applications/s