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Riverside Research is seeking a Technical Project Manager to assist in performing market surveys, developing procurement strategies, and coordinating the purchases of COTS Hardware and Software, for implementing actions to modernize the National Air & Space Intelligence Center’s (NASIC) hardware and software infrastructure at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.  This position will be part of a team providing support to the NASIC Modernization program.  Candidates must be technically proficient and capable of devising and managing practical and sustainable solutions.

• Provide technical project management support by engaging with government technical leads, Program Management Office (PMO) stakeholders, and tool developers
• Assist government technical leads with drafting requirements, project goals, and documentation; and providing contract management support for PMO contracts
• Assist government technical leads in the PMO and the ISS with acquiring quotes, preparing bills of material, drafting packages and justifications to support acquisition of hardware, software, and services
• Determine mission requirements for use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) IT hardware and software
• Assess COTS system effectiveness, suitability, and survivability for achieving mission needs
• Support licensing, purchasing, and vendor activities for COTS
• Plan for life-cycle activities (including sustainment, supply chain risks, obsolescence, and disposal)
• Test and evaluation of COTS items (including early identification of screening, functionality testing and usability assessments)
• Support configuration management for changes to features and upgrades
• Assist documenting the use of COTS in systems engineering planning documents
• Support the implementation of Agile concepts
• Other duties as assigned

• Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI adjudication
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, computer programming, IT or related technical field
• 7+ years of experience spanning IT project management or IT systems operations,
• Understanding of Agile software development concepts
• Strong communication, organization, and analytical skills
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team player

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of micro-services, IaaS, PaaS, system visualization, and/or cloud-native capabilities/designs
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve enterprise level technical problems
• Experience with DevSecOps and/or cross domain solutions
• Professional certifications in agile software development (e.g. Scrum Product Owner, etc.)
• Professional certifications in systems engineering, IT, and/or project/program management (e.g. ITIL, PMP, DAU, etc.)
• Experience with needs documentation (e.g. CONOPs, use cases, requirements, backlogs)
• Master’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or related technical field

$100,000 - $140,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.

 
Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring.  Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees.
Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran’s status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.