Deputy Program Manager

Program Overview

Improves sustainment efforts for new enhancements and capabilities while maintaining operational applications and their authority to operate. Program supports research, development, testing, and evaluation based on customer requirements and agile processes, while assisting with intelligence missions and global integration efforts.

About The Role

Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced Software Project Manager to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, correlation and dissemination. Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners.

The Software Project Manager will serve as the Deputy Program Manager reporting directly to the SITE III DO Program Manager. In this role the Deputy Program Manager will oversee multiple software development efforts, oversee O&M of deployed software applications, and participate in all levels of planning for future applications and projects. The Software Project Manager will coordinate with multiple project leads to gather and access status, ensure timelines are met and take proactive corrective actions as necessary. Responsibilities include resource planning, interviewing and hiring, extensive interaction with customer leadership to include briefings, presentations and real-time technical exchange meetings. Additional responsibilities include creating cost estimates based on a strong understanding of resources levels and capabilities, and creating detailed technical approaches to customer tasking. The Software Project Manager will be responsible for oversight and review of the Integrated Management Schedule (IMS) delivered to the customer on a monthly basis. Other deliverables include creating the monthly Program Management Review in coordination with the SITE III DO Program Manager, as well as weekly progress reviews for the customer. Participation in Quality Assurance and Risk Management tasks is also required.

As the Deputy Program Manager, this role serves as the backup to the SITE III DO program manager for all inquiries from the customer to include financial and contractual topics. As such the Deputy PM must have a complete understanding of the contract deliverables (weekly, monthly, annual) and full understanding of contract funding at the contract level and at the individual applications levels.

Problem solving, flexibility and the ability to collaborate on engineering tasks are key to successfully executing this role. Must be able to take and incorporate feedback, and make adjustments to plans as options are developed. Must be able to listen and generate consensus among teams and must be able to convey vision.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 10+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 8 years of relevant experience. An additional 4 years of relevant experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI with ability to pass a polygraph
• Experience with Agile development and AWS architecture and hosting, general knowledge database design, webservices, and UI design
• Experience planning, scheduling and tracking software development
• Experience in software development and managing software development teams/projects.
• Strong presentation skills
• Proven expertise in PowerPoint, Excel and MS Project
• Ability to multitask across multiple efforts
• Past experience managing program cost and funding
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• Fulltime work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Desired Qualifications

• PMP
• Security+
• Certified Scrum Master

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Details

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

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