Data Project Manager

Company: xentity corporation
Location: Reston, VA

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Are you an organizer and communicator who thrives on bringing together talented people and enabling them to do amazing things together? Do you want to be part of shaping and growing a wildly successful business, having your input valued on company culture and values, vision and purpose, process, and goals? Would you like to work in an environment where your reward is clearly connected to your performance and contribution, where the challenges are significant but the opportunity is great, and the bureaucracy and bull is put in its place?

Xentity needs project manager and aspiring program managers. You will be expected to manage multi-disciplinary consulting projects of 5 to 10 team members. As a Xentity Project Manager you will:

  • Ensure clear project purpose, objectives, and value proposition with team and client stakeholders
  • Proactively manage issues and risks and clear obstacles to team success
  • Manage change to balance scope, schedule, budget to optimize results
  • Work with Senior executive to achieve definition and delivery of key transition milestones

You will be key to client and team success, effectiveness, and satisfaction.

  • You will challenge your team members and they will challenge you, and you will all benefit from the results.
  • You will get the support you need to solve problems, learn and grow and realize your own potential.
  • In the process, you will have an important role in building a business and project management practice.

The work is expected to be at a Government “Earth Agency” (agencies involved in air, land, water, energy, science, remote sensing, mapping, or the like supporting resource management or studies). Solutions will be the face of the clients end services, products, and internal core high-tech processes within their program, and you’ll be able to look back and see you are the “glue” who helped lead achieving true impact at this organization. ?

You will be expected to be the trusted team liaison to GS-15 and SES level government program and project sponsors. You would be the direct point of contact requiring a customer service focus on being accountable and decisive to rapidly respond to requests. You will have to be a expert on several fronts: Culture, Mission and Technology. Additionally,

  • Demonstrate strong Agile PM capabilities to set up project for success (initial plan, all initial meetings with team & client coordinated, etc)
  • Successful execution of project plan
  • Capability to rapidly grasp and increase on of subject matter specifics working with architects, client, and team
  • Our goal would for your personal brand to grow to that level of trusted advisorship as well.

We expect extremely high scores on our leadership competencies as you will be responsible for introducing major change. We expect you to be keenly interested in change motivation approaches, have researched our leadership and management competencies, and have clear demonstration of such demonstrating you are built as a change agent.

You will work directly with our Senior Program Manager who has been delivering successful projects for twenty years. You will coordinate with your peer experts Architects framing the Conceptual and Project direction in fields such as geospatial, earth science, energy, remote sensing, and project solutions in Big Data, Visualization, and large IT Transformations. Both roles enjoy mentoring, collaboration, and making appropriate decisions and as quite familiar with these client strategies, tactics, protocols, and solutions that will be successful. Our client base enjoys the value these two bring, and have made repeated requests for support for them and their teams over the years.

Minimum Requirements:

    • Bachelor’s degree in related field
    • 3 to 5 years of experience in project management or similar role leading small teams in a project setting
  • – Familiar with Natural Resource Management and Science Mission space – Planning, Policy, Land Management, State and International Issues/Topics with Federal Government in Natural Resources Management. (i.e. experience in NEPA)
    • Preferred to have previous experience supporting high-tech and scientific programs, preferably government related, AND experience in IT Management
    • Agile PM experience
    • PMP Certification is preferred
    • Must be able to demonstrate fast, quality typing
    • MUST have rapid workshop planning lifecycle experience – planning, logistics, facilitation, vision building, collaboration, and rapid transition planning.
    • Must be able to travel 10-20% of the time in US, possible AK/HI
    • Must be able to pass basic NACI
    • Have a home office with frequent on-site presence
    • Must be able to pass background, drug and reference checks
    • No Relocation Assistance, must be local

We do NOT currently have an opening.:

We review our requirements quarterly and this could change. We like to plan ahead in finding amazing talent.:

About Xentity:

We are a fast-growing data consulting and support services firm – focused on large data programs in data types such as geospatial, open, big, and IoT data. Check out http://www.xentity.com to learn about our focus, services, clients, missions, values as well as our excellent benefits package and career information.

We have high profile clients and projects that our staff really delivery for, as well enjoy knowing they make a large difference.

Our President has a vision to continue to focus on solutions that transform the Next Generation. Using data integration, knowledge solutions, and amazing increases in computing to impact energy, geosciences, land management, we can bring quality and simplifications to existing and new data flow! Imaging being on a team that brings advanced concepts like high performance computing, AI, data science, fuzzy logic, changing interfaces human-computer points mobile or augmented reality and many more disruptions. This truly can put the I back in IT and GIS…. by concentrating on pragmatic knowledge-first data designs, leadership and management, and the all too forgotten focus on outreach and engagement strategies and solutions.

More can be found at careers.xentity.com