2027480 Program Manager $185,000.00

Posted onAuthorCarol K

Labor Category: Program Manager
Position Title: IT Program Manager
Position Level: All Levels
Salary: Up to $185,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Herndon VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

This position is being bid on matrix is due by COB 8/21/25 This is Expert or SME Level
The Candidate shall provide IT resources to support the Customer’s software development lifecycle, from requirements elicitation through project management, accreditation, and deployment, to Operations and Maintenance (O&M), as dictated by the application portfolio. As a Business Enterprise (BE) within a Working Capital Fund (WCF), the Customer provides services to Mission Partners through Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These SLAs serve as binding agreements that outline the specific products and services to be provided, as well as the associated costs. Maintaining BE solvency is crucial, and the Customer relies on these SLAs to ensure fiscal responsibility and full cost recovery for services. The Customer’s portfolio includes services to internal Mission Partners and externally to agencies in the IC. The Customer’s current development efforts consist of approximately (12) systems; current O&M efforts consists of approximately twenty-eight (28) systems. The portfolio of projects constantly change, with new agreements negotiated or reduced at any time.
WORK REQUIREMENTS

The Candidate shall work in a team-based Agile environment utilizing tools provided by the Customer.
The Candidate shall work with Customer to ensure customer-approved projects comply with technical architecture guidelines, are properly executed and technical progress and expenses are tracked. The Candidate shall ensure accuracy and quality for all project documents (to include but not limited to ROMs, CSAs, Project Plans, Technical Architectures, and SLAs) prior to submission for Customer’s approval.
The Candidate shall provide necessary resources/skills (system engineering, application development, etc.) for Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) integrations, and newly developed or customized applications as defined by Mission Partner requirements.
The Candidate shall provide necessary resources/skills to support system maintenance and troubleshooting of software components to maintain performance SLA compliance, sustainability and reliability of the Customer’s systems and applications. These systems shall meet Customer approved timelines for modifications/new requirements.
The Candidate shall utilize the Customer’s suite of system monitoring tools and ensure programs are included in the Customer’s continuous audit monitoring program, with any deviations requiring prior approval via the Customer-approved waiver process.
The Candidate shall provide requirements analysis to meet resource section, and requirements tracking across the Customer’s portfolio of systems.
The Candidate shall communicate and work collaboratively across organizational boundaries with other staff and Candidate personnel teams supporting service delivery which includes:

• Government and Commercial Cloud Service Providers (CSP’s) holding contracts or service level agreements with the Customer that provide the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities required to implement technical solutions. The Customer will ensure that the Candidate has sufficient access to the CSP’s performance metrics and environments in order for the Candidate to provide recommendations to the Customer on effective cost and capacity management.
• Systems engineering and architecture Candidates that support architecture definition, user requirements analysis and allocation, and system prototyping.
The Candidate shall comply with all Customer’s regulations and policies. Compliance standards include security accreditation, program management control gates, integration with external services (e.g., access control, auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage/after-action reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, auditing, logging, solution reconstitution testing, and technical directives.
The Candidate shall provide a Monthly Report (MR) (CDRL 001) that provides a timely and accurate overview of the technical, schedule, and financial performance; staffing; risk/issues; and security (see Addendum for details).

The Candidate shall conduct a monthly Program Management Review (PMR) that provides a forum for reviewing actual performance against the goals (see Addendum for details).
The Candidate shall provide a customer-specific financial summary as part of the monthly status reports for each customer and/or service identified by the Customer.
The Candidate shall execute work schedules to ensure that necessary planning, coordination, approvals, negotiations, and other contract requirements are completed in a timely manner so as not to negatively impact the program. The core hours for all positions not otherwise identified shall be 9:00AM – 3:00PM. For the database and system administration functions, some staff must be on-site by 7:00AM and some personnel must be on-site until 4:00PM.

Details:

Labor Category: Program Manager
Position Title: IT Program Manager
Position Level: All Levels
Salary: Up to $185,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Herndon VA

Mandatory Requirements:

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

The Customer offers Agile coaching, training and strategic planning services to Mission Partners. The
Candidate Team shall:
a. Manage and deliver Agile consulting engagements to Customer Mission Partners.
b. Promote and use Agile methodologies such as Sprint Planning, Scrum, coaching, training.
c. Provide instructional and mentoring support to Mission Partners project teams as relates to Agile development methods and technical skills development.
d. Execute customized coaching to Mission Partners and the IC.
e. Provide briefings on using and implementing Agile methodologies to a variety of audiences.
f. Create, update and maintain Agile support documentation in the Customer’s document repository and report portals; and provide status to the Customer upon request.
g. Provide Customer management monthly metrics on project compliance and trends within the Customer’s approved Agile best practices.
h. Identify opportunities to expand optimization services to Mission Partners and the IC.
Project Management
The Candidate Team shall provide a single point of contact to the Customer and/or the Mission Partner for project execution. The Candidate Team shall:
a. Assess Mission Partner requirements, identify dependencies, gaps and develop proactive strategies.
b. Establish and maintain relationships with Mission Partners for the life of the project or services.
c. Ensure follow-up with Mission Partners on potential requirements for new or additional services or support.
d. Manage projects, track schedules and milestones as defined by the Customer. Ensure the delivery of projects are on-time, on-budget, and within scope. Notify the Customer immediately if projects are at risk of not being delivered on-time, on-budget or within scope. Brief project status as required.
e. With Customer oversight, develop scope, schedule, and perform cost estimates against new and existing projects.
f. Create Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates for new and existing projects for Customer’s approval.
g. With Customer oversight, create and maintain Customer Service Agreements (CSA) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
h. Provide the Customer with routine written progress reports of the project in accordance to a predefined cadence.
i. Create, update and maintain project and service support documentation in the Customer’s document repository for the lifespan of the product.
j. Support other project management functions as required by the Customer.
k. Resolve potential risks/issues.
l. Provide risk assessment, impacts and forecast to assigned projects.
m. Provide status of assigned projects and programs weekly or as defined by the Customer (CDRL 001).
Requirements Management
The Candidate shall coordinate and facilitate requirements capture meetings with Mission Partners.
a. Capture, document, track, report and archive products and services requested from Mission Partner to the Customer.
b. Work in close partnership with project managers, software.
c. teams, architects, security in interpreting and vetting product and service requests to the Customer.
d. Establish and maintain close relationships with Mission Partners to understand and anticipate requirements and business opportunities for the Customer.

Optional Requirements:

The Candidate Team shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:
• Demonstrated experience identifying and validating requirements for SharePoint sites service now, saves and custom applications.
• Demonstrated experience as a SharePoint Designer.
• Demonstrated experience leading matrixed technical resources to deliver solutions.
• Demonstrated experience adding new features, optimizing, scaling, or improving stability and performance of Applications.
• Demonstrated experience using JavaScript (JS).
• Demonstrated experience developing on low-code, no-code platforms (i.e., ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Sharepoint)
• Demonstrated experience automating configuration and provisioning of cloud resources.
• Demonstrated experience configuring and administrating Amazon Linux, and Windows OS.
• Demonstrated experience automating and scripting using Bash and Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience installing and managing Apache, Tomcat and Express servers.
• Demonstrated experience administering databases like MySQL.
• Demonstrated experience administering no-SQL databases like MongoDB.
• Demonstrated experience providing instruction, and mentoring as relates to Agile development methods and technical skills development.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, tracking schedules and milestones.
• Demonstrated experience developing scope, schedules, and cost estimates.
• Demonstrated experience applying usability and accessibility standards, user research, and user-centered design principles for software development to optimize application interface designs.
• Demonstrated experience providing system architectural guidance and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience providing application support identifying and validating requirements for Salesforce.
• Demonstrated experience providing database support to include database patches, installations, data and database migrations, and backup and recovery database maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience performing regression and unit and acceptance testing (UAT).
• Demonstrated experience with development languages Maven, Java, NodeJS, Angular, Javascript, HTML, CSS, JSON, Yaml, XML, XSL, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, SQL, or Python.
• Demonstrated experience performing analysis of system vulnerability scans and recommending necessary remediation based on scan result analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with Jira.
• Demonstrated experience with Confluence.
• Demonstrated knowledge of DEVOPS tools such as Jenkins and Github.
• Demonstrated knowledge of installing and maintaining PKI certificates.
• Demonstrated experience with the installation and maintenance of COTS IT products.
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering Agile consulting engagements.
• Demonstrated experience providing security Oracle Wallet and IIS server Certificate upgrades for database servers.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support for integration and deployment of applications into a cloud production environment.
• Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining automated test scripts to test new or existing applications for compliance with best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with REST Web services and SOAP Web services.
• Demonstrated experience with Spring, Spring Security and Hibernate frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS CloudFormation Templates, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Security Groups, S3 and KMS.
• Demonstrated experience OpenSSL and TLS encryption protocols.

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations.  B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs.  B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package.  B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first.  B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

  • Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

  • Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
    –       100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
    –       Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
  • Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

  • Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
  • Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
  • Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
  • Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
  • Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
  • Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

  • Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

  • Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
  • Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

Tuition and Training:

  • Free CBTNuggets Online Training Account
    –       More than 200 online IT courses on a large variety of topics, including networking, security, virtualization, and the cloud
    –       Cisco, Microsoft, and Google
    –       Virtual Labs
  • Free L inux Academy Online Training Account

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