Project Manager 2 - Washington - ref. r62315
About NFF:
Since 1996, NFF has designed, architected, and delivered IT network and security solutions to many state, and local government agencies, K-20 educational institutions, federal agencies, and large enterprise businesses across the mid-Atlantic.NFF is a technology services and solutions provider, specializing in next-generation IT infrastructure including networks, data centers, cloud migrations, IT security, collaboration and mobility, and full/part-time staff augmentation services.
Our solutions, professional services and IT staffing portfolio are centered around building more resilient, secure, adaptive, and intelligent IT infrastructure and include comprehensive assessment, architecture, design, integration and installation services, and ongoing performance management services though our Network Operations Center (NOC).
NFF is a Cisco Gold Partner with a Customer Experience Specialization and was a “Cisco Top-5 Mid-Atlantic SLED Partner” in 2019, 2020 and 2022. NFF has maintained Cisco Gold Partnership since 2008, is the only Cisco Gold Partner headquartered in the District of Columbia.In addition to Cisco, NFF has key partnerships with many manufacturers and IT solution providers including, Rapid7, Arctic Wolf, VMware, NetApp and Splunk.
NFF is a District of Columbia (DC) Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) and a SBA Certified Small Business with headquarters in downtown Washington, DC. Our dedication to quality is reflected in our accomplishment of being awarded multiple ISO 9001:2015 certifications.
About this Position / Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:The Project Manager - Architect (PM-A) will support modernization efforts of the Financial and Reporting systems. The PM-A will act as a technical architect for Financial and Datawarehouse projects and will support the overall modernization efforts of our customer's reporting environments and upgrade of the financial systems.
Duties:- Manage Technical Programs and Projects as assigned
- Lead the technology direction and standards for data platforms, involving all aspects of information access and retrieval, integration, middleware translators, utilities, tools, and languages for use by the customer's Data systems group. Research and provide enterprise-wide data architecture and standard platforms, products and tools to various projects and initiatives as directed by our customer.
- Architect data structures such as data marts, data warehouses, and data lakes to support exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, predictive analytics, and machine learning models
- Defines and achieves the strategy roadmap for the enterprise; including data modeling, implementation and data management for our enterprise data warehouse and advanced data analytic systems. Manage and plan the effort to migrate our customer's Custom Applications/Systems to Cloud and Hosting providers such as AWS, Oracle, Microsoft and Google etc.
- Review and provide feedback on Architecture and Technical Strategy documents, functional/technical specifications
- Prepare white papers/options papers and recommend solution
- Evaluate current systems and review objectives with stakeholders
- Provide support by responding to user questions, resolving problems, and coding utilities
- Assist w/ identifying and resolving production and application development problems; calculating optimum values for parameters; evaluating, integrating, and installing new releases; completing maintenance; answering user questions.
- Organizes, directs, and manages contract operation support functions, involving multiple, complex, and inter- related project tasks.
- Manages teams of contract Support Personnel at multiple locations.
- Maintains and manages the client interface at the senior levels of the client organization.
- Meets with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverable items. Ensures conformance with program task schedules and costs.
- Experience managing technical programs and projects
- Hands-on experience working with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence systems
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field
Qualifications:- 16+ years in progressive consulting leadership role, providing full lifecycle services in enterprise environment (Required)
- 16+ years managing, coordinating, and establishing priorities for entire project lifecycle (Required)
- Program Manager (Required)
- Project Manager (Required)
- Information Technology Experience (Required)
- 5+ years JIRA/Confluence experience (Required)
- Experience implementing software application development and large infrastructure enhancements for public sector entity (Required)
- Experience as a Solution Architect on Oracle eBusiness Suite projects for Public Sector entity (State, Local and Federal) (Required)
NFF Disclosures:
NFF offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and flexible paid time off options, for eligible employees:
- Medical, Dental and Vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account
- STD, LTD, Supplemental life insurance and ADD&D
- Comprehensive 401k plan
- Paid Time Off
NFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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