IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

Job ID: 2617013

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Date Posted: Sep 18, 2026

Category: Program Management

Subcategory: Project Analyst

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: On-Site

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Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an IT Project Manager in Colorado Springs, CO to support a fast-paced, dynamic DoD organization Leads a wide range of Project Management activities and ensures use of Project Management Institute best practices. You will be responsible for ensuring capability delivery via the project lifecycle that provisions enterprise software, infrastructure, cyber security, and network systems. The IT Project Manager ensures progress via well planned, communicated, and documented actions within the Initiation Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Control/Monitoring, and Closing Phase.

Responsibilities:

• Works aggressively across directorate leadership, program managers, and other key stakeholders to ensure full integration and synchronization of Project Management activities.
• Ensures meeting coordination and clarity of scope, policy compliance, alignment within strategic objectives and program/portfolio plans, and thorough communication plan execution.
• Works with other PMs and Task Managers to ensure engineering, cyber and operations SME resource leveling actions to deliver projects.
• Directs project team to follow comprehensive communications and stakeholder engagement plan.
• Updates MS Project plans, maintain files on Project Server, & MS SharePoint.
• Use MS Office products to create and maintain project plans, schedules, Statements of Work, Bill of Materials, risk registers, presentations and briefings.
• Applies Risk Management principles to identify, analyze, mitigate, accept or ignore risks for all projects.
• Coordinates activities with IT Portfolio Managers, governance/policy leads, Resource Managers, Program Managers, and government leads to ensure desired solutions are supportable/documented across all functions to include full cyber accreditation and network operations sustainment.
• Ensures all Scope changes are fully vetted and documented.
• Works closely with engineering and operations teams to minimize design time and reduce service transition risks.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in an IT related discipline and six (6) years or more of related experience; Masters and four (4) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience

• Active PMP Certification

• 10 years' experience in IT Project Management

• Secret clearance with ability to secure a Top Secret clearance.

• DOD or Federal Government experience

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and apply other time management skills to operate effectively in a highly fluid, fast-paced environment

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, in both day-to-day operational and IT management interaction contexts

Desired Certifications:

• ITIL V4 Foundations certified

• Scrum or Agile Certified

• CISCO, VMWare, Microsoft, Cyber Security certification(s) a strong plus.

• COCOM and/or similar senior DOD staff experience.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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