Senior Project Manager

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At Leidos, we’re not just delivering solutions - we’re pioneering the future of defense and intelligence technology. Our diverse teams of innovators unite around a singular purpose: empowering our customers to succeed in their critical missions. We believe in leading with integrity, investing in our communities, and building sustainably for tomorrow.

Our Digital Modernization sector is at the forefront of next-generation technology, architecting cutting-edge solutions in cyber defense, logistics optimisation, security operations, and decision intelligence. We’re the minds behind the mission-critical systems that keep our nation secure.

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos is seeking a Project Manager to support cloud modernization initiatives for the United States Coast Guard (USCG) at the Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center (C5

ISC) in the Alexandria, VA area. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support mission-critical cloud transformation efforts focused on AWS and Azure cloud environments. The successful candidate will work closely with government stakeholders, technical teams, cloud engineers, customer success personnel, and program leadership to coordinate cloud migration and modernization activities, facilitate application onboarding efforts, and ensure successful delivery of project objectives.

The ideal candidate combines strong project management fundamentals with technical aptitude, exceptional organisational skills, and experience supporting Agile teams. This individual will play a critical role in managing schedules, coordinating stakeholders, administering Jira and Confluence, and facilitating the successful onboarding of applications and workloads into cloud environments.

• Develop, maintain, and manage project schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), roadmaps, milestones, and project plans using Microsoft Project and related tools.
• Track project execution against scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Support requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder coordination activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, action-item tracking, and customer communications.
• Monitor Agile delivery metrics, sprint progress, burn-down charts, and team performance indicators.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies and coordinate mitigation strategies with stakeholders and technical teams.
• Prepare project status reports, executive briefings, and customer-facing documentation.

• Support Agile delivery teams through backlog management, sprint planning coordination, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Solution Architects, and engineering teams to prioritise and track work.
• Promote Agile, Scrum, and continuous improvement practices across project teams.
• Facilitate communication and coordination between technical teams, customer stakeholders, and program leadership.

• Serve as a Jira and Confluence administrator supporting project and customer collaboration needs.
• Configure and maintain Jira projects, workflows, dashboards, permissions, issue types, and reporting capabilities.
• Manage user provisioning, access requests, workflow implementation, and process improvements.
• Develop and maintain Confluence spaces, templates, knowledge repositories, and project documentation.
• Provide user support and training related to Jira and Confluence processes and best practices.

• Partner closely with the Customer Success Manager and technical teams to facilitate onboarding of applications and workloads into AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Coordinate onboarding activities, stakeholder engagement, requirements collection, and migration readiness assessments.
• Support development and management of cloud onboarding workflows and intake processes within Jira.
• Track onboarding progress, dependencies, approvals, and customer…