SAIC · 1 day ago
Software Assurance and IT Development Team Manager
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expSAIC is seeking a Manager for the Software Assurance and IT Development Team to support the SMAEC contract at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The role involves overseeing a diverse range of projects related to flight software safety, assurance and quality engineering, IT projects, and ensuring successful delivery of services required by the government customer.
Information TechnologySecurityService IndustrySoftware
Responsibilities
Coordinate with contract leadership, including peer managers, employees, and key stakeholders to ensure engineering, cyber security, and operational SME resources are available to deliver products and services across the SMAEC contract and work proactively to identify and resolve issues
Directs project team to follow comprehensive communications and stakeholder engagement plans and ensure the team maintains and demonstrates effective communication within the team, with other contract teams, and with the NASA customers
Ensure all project scope changes are fully vetted and documented
Provide regular communication with the PM of technical items and issues including projects, programs, milestones, flight readiness, mission anomalies, IT projects, network and network security status, that the contract is supporting as part of the contract and task order Statements of Work (SOW)
Contribute to generation of task specific Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and monthly forecasts
Communicate with the PM and DPM of performance issues including personnel, processes, tools, or interfaces that could or are affecting TO or contract performance or deliverables - Provide monthly product reporting (metrics, trend analysis, etc.)
Maintain data as required in designated repositories to allow efficient retrieval and comply with Quality Management System and Configuration Management requirements
Establish and maintain forums, training, and certifications/qualifications for disciplines to grow and enhance contract overall capability to achieve and exceed customer technical needs
Seek out technical innovations
Monitor and manage staff performance including regular performance discussions, identifying succession planning for important roles, identifying personnel skill growth goals and opportunities, identifying and quickly elevating employee performance issues to the PM and Human Resources as required for resolution; identify and recognized excellent employee work and nominate employees for special recognition including merits, spot bonuses, and other awards
Manage resource assignments and workloads, including staffing (developing position requisitions, interviewing, hiring)
Ensure assigned staff receive required training (including SAIC, NASA, and Contract specific)
Provide required and requested inputs to Business Management Office (e.g. metrics, trends, feedback)
Coordinate technical approaches across workgroup to efficiently address issues and assignment of resources
Ensure staff compliance to NASA, SMAEC contract, and SAIC corporate requirements and policies
Utilize project management practices to assure schedules, milestones, and deliverables are met
Qualification
Required
Bachelor degree in software or computer engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline and ten (10) years or more experience; Masters and eight (8) years or more experience
At least 5 years' experience supporting human spaceflight
Senior technical engineering experience - Excellent Technical Team Leadership
Customer Communications (Verbal & Written)
Technical mentoring
Project risk assessment and mitigation
Software safety, assurance, and quality engineering
IT projects for desktop support, server and network administration, cyber security
Software development
Facilities support
Proficiencies with multiple MS-Office products to include Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project
Must be highly detail oriented and have demonstrated capability for project planning, organizing, for providing task direction, and tracking of tasks
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Familiar with Risk Management methodologies
Familiar with Resource planning
National Agency Background Check (NAC)
Preferred
Project management experience and familiarity with methodologies and tools, PMP considered a plus
Supervisory experience
NASA SMA Technical Excellence Program (STEP) courses
PMP
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