Senior/Principal Software Project Manager - Custom Enterprise Apps & Services, Remote

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

We are seeking a highly motivated Information Systems Engineering Project Manager to join our software engineering team! In this role you will leverage your experience to manage projects through the full system lifecycle and to oversee Operations & Maintenance work across a varied portfolio. You'll serve as the principal project interface with customers, team members, and management to deliver software systems that meet cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You will use your Agile knowledge to identify areas for efficiency gains, process improvement, and areas for standardization.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Provide leadership and tactical planning for the execution of projects, applying your technical knowledge to achieve project objectives and deliverables.
• Estimate costs and schedules for software projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget while meeting technical requirements.
• Negotiate and verify deliverables with stakeholders across functional organizations.
• Work with customers and IT team to understand, document, analyze, and communicate requirements.
• Understand the technical domain to identify task dependencies and manage changes in project scope using change management practices.
• Identify potential project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies, corrective actions, and recommendations for risk acceptance or avoidance.
• Develop and deliver status reports, decision documents, and presentations to stakeholders and management.
• Conduct lessons learned sessions to identify efficiencies and drive process improvements
• Candidates must be able to handle a fast-paced environment while successfully partnering with staff and leadership across multiple departments.

*The selected applicant can be a remote worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

$102,400 - $199,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other relevant technical field plus five (5) years experience; or higher degree (MS, PhD) in relevant field plus one (1) year experience; or combination of education and experience.
• Technical knowledge of software development processes, methodologies, and best practices for designing, coding, testing, and maintaining software applications.
• Experience documenting, maintaining, and analyzing functional and non-functional requirements.
• Proficiency in processes, tools, and applications commonly used in information systems development and project management.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q security clearance.

• Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications (PMP, PMI-ACP, PgMP).
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or other Agile certifications.
• Experience with software development lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools for handling product backlog management.
• Experience with software testing principles, concepts, processes, activities, practices, and requirement types and work products.
• Proven experience in project management of information systems technical or operational work.
• Critical thinking, synthesis and problem-solving; ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt to a fast-paced, customer-focused operation.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a constantly changing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Current DOE Q security clearance.

The Custom Enterprise Apps & Services team develops and maintains custom software applications and services for enterprise end-users and developers. We provide high-quality, user-focused solutions that enable our customers to meet Sandia's mission.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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