Solutions Delivery Manager - Military veterans preferred

Description

SAIC is looking for a Solutions Delivery Manager responsible for providing leadership and technical direction across multiple Agile teams to ensure successful delivery of customized hardware / software solutions support of Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Solution applications include biometric, analytics, mobile, signage, and vehicle. 

Key Responsibilities

People
·    Manage/ supervise a HW/SW development group of up to 50 team members
·    Partner and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment 
·    Collaborate with other program team leaders (Architecture, Deployment, logistics, O&M) 
·    Advise, collaborate, and guide engineering business processes, application architecture, and infrastructure development
·    Remove roadblocks to success and acts as an escalation point to senior leadership
·    Work to provide a culture of accountability, dependability, and transparency.

Process
·    Operate across external and internal organizational groups to drive standardization of common approaches and best practices
·    Align team to Government's Agile / PI Planning, engineering standards and practices
·    Lead the system technical design efforts and define epic and user story breakdown
·    Ensure effective and efficient translation of product requirements into complete solutions, using industry best practices in an Agile development environment, and working within cost and schedule constraints
·    Continuous Improvement through design and coordination implementation of automated solutions to replace or enhance manual processes.
·    Provide guidelines, best practices, and technical direction to domain architects, software developers, system administrators, and security personnel

Technology
·    Maintain new software and system development roadmaps in support of new features
·    Guide the design and development of new and enhanced systems and solutions using advanced hardware, software, and cloud technologies. 
·    Provide expertise and guidance to the engineering team in the practice areas of our IT infrastructure enterprise
·    Ensure adequate documentation for all solutions

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience working as a Program Manager using Agile Methodology and working with engineering and product managers for technical programs
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust 
• Experience leading large teams of 25-50+ staff
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience leading technical briefings 
• Stakeholder management and effective communications of program status and risk
• Experience with task estimating, planning, and scheduling
• Experience working in a collaborative Scrum / Agile environment using Atlassian Suite
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and change.
• Broad technical understanding of systems, databases, networking, and computing environments. Experience with hardware and software based solutions is a plus
• Strong analytical skills and have good interpersonal and communications skills in dealing with multiple contractor and government organizations

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees are required to adhere with SAIC's vaccination policy. All SAIC employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Where work is performed strictly at a customer site, customer site vaccination requirements preempt SAIC's vaccination policy.