Transition Project Manager

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Job Description:

**This posting is for future opportunities at Leidos, not for a current open position. As we anticipate upcoming opportunities, we invite you to submit your resume for future positions of this nature. We appreciate your time and interest!**

Leidos is seeking a Transition Project Manager to support a critical program to modernize a Defense Health Agency’s IT infrastructure to provide a standardized, robust, and highly available global infrastructure and enterprise core services, scoped from end-user desktop to data center, while adhering to the cost containment and operational efficiencies. The resultant IT infrastructure and operations framework will support a global data communications network, and enterprise services infrastructure, including data center(s), server hosting, and end-user platform capabilities enabling more than 150K military personnel to support the continuum of health services.

The successful candidate will perform day to day management of transition-in activities to ensure successful implementation and governance of the program to include assessing and addressing issues and risks during implementation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Direct the consolidation of numerous IT Support services capabilities into a unified IT and Operations infrastructure.
• Organize, plan, schedule, implement, control, analyze, and report on all elements of the contract.
• Effectively manage an IT services workforce including a large number of subcontractors and global service center.
• Present the status of contract activities, requirements, and problems during program reviews and in response to requests from the Government.
• Coordinate with contracts, human resources, and procurement management functions.
• Identify, mitigate and control risks. Drive process improvement and innovation.
• Create plans and processes required to meet all performance, schedule, quality, cost, and security requirements.
• Manage and integrate the efforts of subcontractors, assuring flow-down and fulfillment of all contractual requirements.
• Plan/lead program reviews and briefings; identify and report on issues or related problems and potential risks.
• Maintain currency on relevant IT service management tools and technologies, and provide inputs for white papers and proposals.

Basic Qualifications ​

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field and 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Active PMI/PMP certification
• 5 years of experience as a project manager on very large IT infrastructure programs encompassing multiple geographically dispersed locations and a mobile workforce
• Experience leading complex IT infrastructure consolidation and modernization efforts to achieve standardized, consistent and repeatable processes for delivery of IT services across the a large DoD agency enterprise and optimize use of shared resources
• Experience in planning and implementing managed services
• Experience effectively communicating at senior levels within a customer organization and meeting with stakeholders to formulate, review, and execute task plans and deliverable items.
• Experience with DoD Cyber Security procedures.
• Experience applying the ITIL framework and best practices
• Experience presenting briefings to senior customer management, customer stakeholders, and company management.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Must be US Citizen and able to attain a Position of Trust ADPII security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Experience managing firm fixed price task orders and performance -based contracts
• Knowledge of Health IT technology including Electronic Health Records.
• Experience with Service Desk support and operations
• ITIL v3 Foundation Certification
• ITIL Continued Service Improvement Certification

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Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $10.19 billion for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2018. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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