Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead and govern IT project schedules and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) across a portfolio of projects. The role involves partnering with project managers and stakeholders to drive delivery outcomes and improve scheduling practices, while also managing complex IT projects from initiation to completion.
Responsibilities
- Partner with PMO/leadership to define and implement standards, methods, and best practices for IT project scheduling and WBS development across the portfolio
- Continuously improve scheduling practices, templates, and guidelines based on lessons learned and industry standards
- Own the design and integrity of the master IT project schedule in Microsoft Project Server
- Analyze schedule data to identify cross-project impacts, critical paths, resource/contention issues, and recommend mitigation strategies
- Lead the design and refinement of WBSs and WBS dictionaries for IT projects based on business and technical requirements
- Facilitate workshops with project managers, product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to decompose scope into well-defined work packages
- Ensure WBSs are traceable to requirements, aligned with deliverables, and suitable for robust scheduling and reporting
- Serve as the primary coach and advisor to IT project managers on WBS development, schedule structuring, and use of Project Server
- Provide practical guidance on defining activities, sequencing tasks, setting dependencies, estimating durations, and managing baselines
- Promote adoption of consistent scheduling practices, templates, and naming conventions to improve quality and comparability across projects
- Lead selected complex IT projects (e.g., new product/service launches, platform upgrades, software implementations) end-to-end
- Develop comprehensive project plans, manage risks and issues, oversee change control, and ensure delivery against scope, schedule, and quality objectives
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (business, development, infrastructure, security, operations, vendors) to drive execution
- Use advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, advanced data analysis) to interpret schedule and portfolio data and provide insights to leadership
- Proactively identify schedule risks and bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions and scenario options
Skills
- Secret clearance
- 10+ years of related experience
- Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
- Information Technology Project Management
- Microsoft Office Project Server
- Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute (PMI)
- US Citizenship Required
- Experience in analyzing program/project status and providing documentation to support project/program
- Experience with ITSM based services
- DoD 8140.03 Work Role (802) IT Project Manager - Basic certification
- BS or BA degree (or equivalent experience)
- ITIL Foundations certification (to be achieved within 3 months of hiring)
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
Company Overview
General Dynamics Information Technology is an IT consulting company that specializes in cyber security, AI, and quantum computing. It is a sub-organization of General Dynamics. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.gdit.com/.