Change Management Analyst

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting agency, seeks a Change Management Analyst to support the Special Solutions team on a long-term mission-critical program in Chantilly, VA.

The successful candidate will have experience with Agile methodologies as well as the ability to participate in release planning events, daily scrums, and other technical discussions as needed. The secondary function of this role will be for moving ("replicating") data and products among networks, providing dissemination support from all NGA networks to appropriate domains, and loading data/products to networks. The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) will work on a team that transfers NGA products, information, data, and web content for dissemination on NGA and coalition networks. This role may support all activities owned by the CM team including documentation, software management, architecture diagrams, cloud cost control methodologies and reporting, and other projects while requiring significant collaboration with other teams, program management, and customer stakeholders.

PRIMARY Responsibilities:

• Chairing the Change Management Board (CMB).
• Making decisions for all technical changes.
• Coordinating with Technical Reviewers and Mission Partners to ensure the accuracy of change requests
• Identifying and managing problems, risks, issues and the practicalities of normal change, standard change, and emergency change to meet our customers' expectations and ensure Leidos' reputation as an organization that delivers for its customers.
• Demonstrating a professional and proactive approach in customer communications to build strong relationships with a wide group of key customers.
• Leading by example in demonstrating a collaborative and transparent partnering approach with the customer group in support of long-term goals and principles.
• Effectively leading, managing and motivating the on-site and remote teams to ensure a culture of focus, delivery and professionalism within which each member understands their role, and responsibilities and is enthused to deliver their best work.
• Provide support to the operational and strategic management of this area of Leidos business including SME support to proposals for future work to benefit the customer.

BASIC Qualifications:

• 4-8 years relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, 2-6 years experience with a Master's degree, 9 years experience with an Associate's degree, or 10 years experience with a High School/General Education Development diploma.
• Top Secret clearance with the ability to sit for a CI Poly.
• Experience working in an AGILE environment
• Experience in managing the development and delivery of multiple overlapping Releases
• Familiarity with Risk and Issue Management
• Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives
• Track record of working effectively within a team, and supporting peers toward improved processes and results
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience acquiring software and associated management of licenses
• Experience establishing or significantly improving an existing CM system and process
• Experience improving and auditing deployment processes
• Understand CM / SE process for the entire life cycle of systems from initial requirements/capabilities baselines to system end-of-life
• Experience in provide AWS support to multiple systems and environments to include software and hardware baselines
• Experience with Government processes and procedures including DTO, SWAP, SWIDs, and other CM taskings.

Security Clearance Required: Top Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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