IT Program Manager
Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security, and sustainability. Our people apply undaunted curiosity, relentless ambition, and boundless imagination to challenge convention and drive progress. Our commitments are underpinned by the belief that safety, collaboration, and well-being are integral to success.
Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, we have approximately 50,000 employees in more than 70 countries across all 7 continents.
Amentum is seeking an IT Program Manager for a large-scale contract operated in the Washington DC metro area to consolidate and modernize IT cybersecurity and network services across all 50 states and territories. You will provide management direction, administration, quality assurance, and leadership of the execution of this contract. One of your strong points is your eagerness to put the customers needs at the forefront of your problem-solving. Your strong leadership skills combined with your extensive experience managing large-scale Enterprise IT Service Delivery and Management Programs with a global footprint will make you an ideal candidate for this role.
We are pipelining candidates for a future contract award.
Responsibilities:
• Support the creation of and provide leadership for an enterprise endeavor to modernize a Federal customers IT support model. • Serve as a change agent, liaising across government, Amentum, and subcontractor teams to create lasting technological process and cultural change. • Manage day-to-day technical operations, including all aspects of systems integration, engineering, design, material procurement, fabrication, systems assembly, and installation, environmental testing, logistics, fielding, and follow-on support. • Organize, direct, and coordinate planning and implementation of all contract support activities. • Interface with government personnel. • Formulate and review project feasibility studies, determine costs, ensure conformance to work standards. • Interpret policies, purposes, and goals of the organization for subordinates. • Identify, acquire, and utilize company resources to achieve project technical objectives. • Responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing the activities of administrative program and technical personnel. • Responsible for managing and controlling schedules and cost to provide on-time, within-budget performance of all aspects of the contractual effort. • Provides direction for operations and ensuring compliance with all management policies, plans, and procedures. • Provides recommendations for resolution of technical problems to the Government staff and team. • Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
• Ten years of program management experience within the last twenty years managing similar IT complex projects. • Current Program Management Institute (PMI) certification, i.e., Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification. • Possess an ITIL v4 ITIL 4 Managing Professional or a higher certification. • Active TOP SECRET US Government Clearance. • Note: US Citizenship is required to maintain a TOP SECRET Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Masters degree from an accredited college or university in a discipline related to project management or information technology. • Possess the appropriate certifications to achieve DoDM 8140.03 qualification requirements for the Defensive Cyber Workforce (DCWF) work role 801 at the advanced level. • Experience with performance-based and award-fee contracts similar in size and scope to the requirements of this program.
Work Environment:
• This position is performed in a traditional office environment. • Physical demands: occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, use fingers and hands to type or write, reach with hands and arms, talk, or hear, taste, or smell. • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Compensation and Benefits:
• Hiring salary range is $190,000 - $250,000. • Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. • This position includes a competitive benefits package. • For more detailed information on our benefits and what it is like to work for Amentum, please visit our careers site at www.amentumcareers.com.
Benefits Overview:
• Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. • Offerings include: • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Paid time off and holidays • Retirement benefits, including 401k matching • Educational reimbursement • Parental leave • Employee stock purchase plan • Tax-saving options • Disability and life insurance • Pet insurance • Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability, so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.