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Networking Project Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft· Consulting Project Management
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Springfield, VA$77.9k - $156.2kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Networking Project Manager responsible for engaging with customer stakeholders, driving medium-complexity projects, managing delivery, contracting, and IP, with a focus on security, compliance, and delivering value across lifecycle for government/defense-related networking initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Drives and maintains obligations to customer across the delivery lifecycle including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption and usage, delivery management while ensuring adherence to security best practices.
  • Leads or participates in steering committee meetings with strategic customers to discuss progress toward delivery success.
  • Contributes to consumption activities to maximize value of purchases and identifies blockers to consumption goals.
  • Supports relationships with key stakeholders to ensure service delivery is on track and issues are anticipated, identified, and managed.
  • Collaborates with Sales to support contract setup, signature, compliance, and execution from deal approvals to invoicing and closure.
  • Demonstrates accountability for the financial health of a project or program and identifies opportunities to accelerate consumption and delivery.
  • Owns and drives backlog risk management and engages in the pursuit cycle to structure deals appropriately.
  • Drives timely project closure with sign-off tasks and reviews, and contributes to process improvements and IP.
  • Facilitates contracting processes for customer and partner resources, including vendor management and amendments.
  • Balances needs across projects in challenging situations and collaborates on integrated planning for onshore/offshore projects.
  • Researches and shares intellectual property (IP) and promotes reuse across teams.
  • Orchestrates project metrics, proactively manages risks and issues, and ensures ISRA is completed and signed off.
  • Plans and conducts detailed project management planning, baselining, resource load balancing, and schedule management.
  • Contributes to pre-sales activities by articulating business value and assisting in SOW/WBS development.
  • Engages with customers to define requirements, communicate risks, and drive architectural and solution governance.
  • Leads complex solution approaches, architecture documentation, and risk mitigation planning in collaboration with account teams.
  • Ensures communication of the pre-sales value proposition and manages stakeholder expectations with political sensitivity.
  • Leads and coordinates virtual teams and external events to share learnings and best practices.
  • Acts as advisor to external stakeholders and maintains strategic relationships with senior decision makers.
  • Participates in building and maintaining architecture artifacts and governance for POCs and pilots.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 3+ years’ experience in project management OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Project managementSecurity and compliance awareness

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. See pay information link.
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