Elder Research · 3 days ago

Project Manager

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

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Responsibilities

Lead technical and analytics delivery teams, contracts, and client relationships.

Apply project management and consulting best practices and processes (i.e., PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, DevOps) to ensure quality deliverables in scope, on time, and within budget.

Work with and alongside technical team members and provide consulting support in areas such as business analysis, requirements gathering, project scoping, project schedules, risk management, communications, and change management.

Manage and lead technical staff including data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists towards engagement, high quality delivery, and client satisfaction.

Responsible and accountable for contract finances, resources, and risks. Monitor and report on critical metrics like utilization, burn rate, timeline, and risk.

Facilitate client engagements and relationships in partnership with other ERI leaders.

Work with leadership to review growth and expansion opportunities.

Maintain and communicate a solid understanding of analytics and data science techniques, tools, approaches, methodologies, and solutions.

Qualification

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PMP CertificationProject ManagementAgileScrumKanbanConsulting IndustryClient EngagementsGovernment ContractingData AnalysisData PipelinesData ScienceQuerying DatabasesText MiningGraph AnalyticsIRS Public Trust Clearance Portfolios ManagementTeamworkProblem-SolvingAgile Certified

Required

Bachelor’s degree in or a technical field and/or business

PMP Certification (or the willingness and ability to receive a PMP certification within one year of hire)

Multi-year experience with leading projects within industry standard project management frameworks (i.e., PMP, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)

Multi-year experience in the consulting industry (technology, management, strategy) and managing client engagements with either internal or external clients

Experience with government contracting or experience working with federal government agencies

Preferred

Involved in team efforts to design and deploy data and analytics solutions that involve querying databases, analyzing data, building data pipelines, and applying data science concepts such as supervised and unsupervised, text mining, and graph analytics

Agile Certified

IRS Public Trust Clearance (Preferred)

Multi-year experience growing and expanding federal government portfolios

Master’s degree in data science, data analytics, math, statistics, engineering, computer science, or business administration