IT Project Specialist Sr Stf- Remote

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Leidos QTC Health Services is seeking a IT Project Specialist Sr Stf on our IT Infrastructure team. Responsible for managing assigned IT projects, providing administrative support to the Chief Technology Officer and staff, managing the purchase of IT equipment, and ensuring that the Information Technology Department is organized and operates in an efficient manner.

• Function as the overall IT Program Leader and liaison between users, functional and IT team, and vendors to facilitate the creation and maintenance of project plan, dependencies, timelines, prioritization, risks, tracking budget versus actual and all delivery capabilities across the Program life cycle.
• Manage and control scope of assigned initiatives works works with IT Portfolio Manager and IT Management to assign the core sub-projects to the IT Scrum teams. Will work closely with individual product owners to deliver high-quality results in line with schedule, costs, and scope expectations, while achieving customer satisfaction with business partners including the business Program Manager, stakeholders and project team members
• Effectively communicate activities and Program status including milestones and dependencies to management and co-workers through core team and steering committee meetings as well as more informal meetings. Provide effective and timely updates in all communications.
• Works collaboratively with Operations teams, Provider Relations, IT, and other corporate functions to plan, develop, coordinate, and execute major Programs for the company
• Provide full transparency and escalated issues to manager when Program milestones may be in jeopardy.
• Collaborate with clients to collect and define new/existing program implementation requirements to ensure seamless start-up of new programs for all company divisions from requirement gathering to UAT planning and Go Live activities
• Work closely with PMG on creation and maintaining of clear/concise documentation including functional requirements, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, deployment plans, release checklists, etc. to ensure proper documentation of each requirement, defect, test plan and overall sprint planning across the Program
• Coordinate delivery of sprint deliverables on large Programs and coordination with Product Owners, Scrum Master and other IT Management team to track velocity, scope and Program delivery timelines towards the master IT portfolio roadmap to ensure enhanced predictability of timelines and improved time to market
• Continually evaluates risks, collects and analyzes data and provides recommendations to management for necessary decision making
• Actively communicate status and issues to managers, executives, end users, and customers
• Establish strategies for deliverables for Programs to include process changes, technology changes and customer impact
• Identify and develop solutions for process improvement
• Prioritization of post-production tasks including features, defects, architectural and LOB specific functionality
• Other Programs and duties as assigned

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 14 to 20 years of previous experience in project management and administrative support in an IT organization
• Must be able to successfully pass National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation

• PMP Certification
• Experience managing large-scale transformational projects

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