IT Project Manager

Leidos

. Lead day-to-day management and accountability for assigned IT infrastructure and operations projects.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $73,450 - $132,775 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead day-to-day management and accountability for assigned IT infrastructure and operations projects.
Define project scope, objectives, outcomes, and implementation approach in coordination with SEC stakeholders.
Supervise all phases of project development and implementation to ensure quality and delivery alignment.
Apply Agile project management practices to drive iterative execution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Ensure project milestones and deliverables are met in accordance with contract timelines and performance expectations.
Develop detailed work plans, integrated schedules, project estimates, and resource plans for assigned efforts.
Maintain forward-looking project and upgrade schedules, including milestone dependencies and prerequisites.
Align staffing and skill mix to project priorities, operational demands, and schedule commitments.
Track and manage scope, schedule, and resource impacts of project changes and emerging requirements.
Identify and mitigate schedule and resource risks to protect delivery performance.
Conduct project meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder touchpoints across SEC and contractor teams.
Coordinate cross-functional workstreams to keep technical solutions, timelines, and deliverables aligned.
Communicate project issues, risks, and performance deficiencies on an agreed governance cadence.
Ensure proposed process, workflow, or tool changes are documented and routed for Federal review and approval.
Support contract governance practices that improve visibility, control, and decision-making.
Perform ongoing project tracking and analysis for scope, schedule, performance, and risk.
Produce and maintain status reports, milestone updates, and delivery summaries for leadership review.
Support SLA/Key Leading Indicator (KLI)-related performance reporting and service improvement actions tied to project outcomes.
Drive root-cause and lessons-learned activities to improve delivery efficiency and execution quality.
Maintain accurate project records and artifacts to support contract oversight and audit readiness.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).
Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering). Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Experience: 8 years of IT project management experience, including at least 5 years of related experience leading and managing IT projects specializing in IT infrastructure and operations, to include service delivery, IT infrastructure systems, and solution development.
Demonstrated experience defining project scope/objectives and developing work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
Experience supervising project implementation and ensuring milestone/deliverable performance through disciplined tracking and analysis.
Technical Skills: IT project lifecycle management (scope, schedule, risk, resource, and issue management).
Development and maintenance of work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
IT service delivery and IT infrastructure systems coordination.
Solution development planning and execution support.
Milestone, dependency, and deliverable tracking.
Project tracking, analysis, and status reporting for governance and decision support.
SLA/KLI monitoring and governance reporting support.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid Time Off (PTO) accrued based on Leidos policy, up to 3 weeks a year.
Eleven (11) paid holidays per year.
Access to benefits on day one including medical and dental insurance, 401K, Life, AD&D, Voluntary Disability plans.
Ongoing training to support your success.
Tuition reimbursement based on Leidos policy.
Discounted Leidos stock purchase and other Employee Discounts.

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Hard Skills & Tools

IT project managementAgile project managementproject scope definitionwork plan developmentschedule managementresource planningrisk managementstatus reportingIT service deliverysolution development

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingteam coordinationanalytical thinkingdecision-makingtransparencycontinuous improvementperformance tracking

Certifications

SEC Public Trust clearance