Manager Technical Projects

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Manager, Technical Projects to join our team in Chantilly, VA The Manager, Technical Projects will provide project management, integration, and requirements management support to the analytic branch of a large, mission-focused environment. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Working with Sponsor management to determine priorities and structuring the team’s work to align appropriately with those priorities, while effectively managing expectations at all levels with the ability to communicate well in a customer facing environment.

Managing requirements, to include coordinating and facilitating exchange meetings or forums to determine/validate requirements and ensuring tasks are performed according to agreed-upon plans

Updating, maintaining, and tracking all requirements in JIRA, and through other methods as directed

Developing and maintaining realistic, accurate, and complete schedules for each project

Maintaining consistent, proactive, and timely communication with Sponsor management and other internal stakeholders, particularly in regard to outages, and events that may impact other teams

Preparing and presenting status reports, deliverables, and briefings as required, responding to inquiries and requests for assistance from outside parties and other technical teams

Organizing and maintaining documentation so it is easily interpreted by all required parties as well as collaborating with teammates, other service providers, vendors, and users to build relationships and achieve objectives

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma with 10+ years of relevant project management, requirements management, systems integration, and/or systems engineering experience

Strong experience with project management, requirements management, systems integration, and/or systems engineering

Strong experience gathering, tracking, and managing technical requirements/workloads in a complex environment

Strong ability to manage competing priorities and communication to multiple stakeholders, while managing expectations appropriately

Experience with project management and other software suites, particularly JIRA and Microsoft Office products

Preferred Qualifications:

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Experience working in an environment with many different types of data stores

Hands-on technical experience, particularly Cloud focused projects

Experience with presentations and storyboards

Clearance Requirements:

An active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%
Use hands to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.

The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situation