Senior Project Manager; UiPath

Overview

Join us in transforming how technology serves those who serve. Leidos is pursuing the future of defense and intelligence technology, with a focus on integrity, community investment, and sustainable building for tomorrow. Shape the future of digital defense in our Digital sector, which leads in cyber defense, logistics optimization, security operations, and decision intelligence to support mission-critical systems.

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The Digital 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 primarily supports the UiPath Application Service area and offers opportunities to support cloud transformation efforts focused on AWS and Azure environments. The successful candidate will coordinate cloud migration and modernization activities, facilitate onboarding of applications and workloads, and ensure delivery of project objectives. The ideal candidate combines strong project management fundamentals with technical aptitude, organizational skills, and experience supporting Agile teams, with responsibility for schedules, stakeholder coordination, Jira and Confluence administration, and onboarding of applications into cloud environments.

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

• Agile & Collaboration Support:
  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 prioritize and track work. Promote Agile, Scrum, and continuous improvement practices and facilitate communication between technical teams, customer stakeholders, and program leadership.

• Jira & Confluence Administration:
  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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.

• 3+ years of experience supporting technical projects, IT modernization initiatives, software development efforts, cloud migration projects, or related technology programs.

• Experience managing project schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.

• Experience using Microsoft Project to develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.

• Hands-on experience administering Jira and Confluence, including workflows, permissions, dashboards, and reporting.

• Experience supporting Agile and/or Scrum teams in project management, Scrum Master, project coordinator, or related capacity.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the…