IT SME- PMO Support

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions.  We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget. 

KDA is currently searching for an Information Technology SME with an Active TS/SCI + CI Polygraph to support one of our Federal Client's in their Program Management Office (PMO) office. Primary job duties would include:

• Governance and control, and implementing standards across the portfolio.

• Tracking, monitoring, and updating status of program deliverables.

• Application of processes to ensure data currency, validity, and relevance.

• Maintaining a library of PMO documents and building a repository of project templates for both technical and management to support the project managers.

• Supporting project, program, and portfolio-level business process analysis, mapping, improvements, reporting, market research, and internal outreach and communications.

• Translating business processes into workflows and dashboards.

• Updating and keeping current organizational IT lifecycle documentation and supporting materials pertaining to both Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies – engaging in defining, developing, and keeping current engineering (SDLC) and architecture artifacts and standard, and providing oversight of Enterprise SDLC reviews, including change management to ensure compliance with standards and required guidance.

• Supporting IT roadmap updates.

• Maintaining the artifacts related to the process of providing guidance and expertise on applicability of industry standards and best practices such as ITIL, CMMI, SAFe, Agile, and DevOps, and other leading industry practices.

Requirements

Job Requirements

·        Active TS/SCI + CI Poly U.S. Government Security is required

·        Education Requirement: High School Diploma/GED + 12 Years ; Associate Degree + 10 Years ; Bachelor's Degree + 8

Years ; Master's Degree + 6 Years OR a PhD + 4 Years

·        Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

·        Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships

·        Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting.  Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment: Work is performed on client site in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels.  Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions.  Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule:  Business core hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility in Bethesda, MD. 

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team at  hr@kda-consulting.com. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.