IT Project Manager - Active Directory / Entra ID Migration

Summary

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Professional Technical Services, LLC., a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for an IT Project Manager.  The candidate will provide expert technical Project Management services to plan, engineer, and execute enterprise identity and Active Directory (AD) migration to Entra ID and domain consolidation activities.The candidate will ensure accuracy, timeliness, and completion of all tasks and deliverables. High-level tasks include detailed planning, stakeholder analysis, migration wave planning and communications, application owner engagement, compatibility testing, cutover execution with next-day support, and foundational operations & maintenance (O&M) of supported Windows-based services.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, and determination to innovate scalable solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and coordination across organization leadership, division teams, multi-office identity and application owners, and technical workstation/identity support staff; convene daily stand-ups and weekly status meetings to drive decisions and remove blockers.
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan, change control records; meeting minutes, monthly status and financial reports, and quarterly executive summaries.
• Own communications and user scheduling for migration waves across DOI (contact users; send readiness instructions; notify impacts, timelines, support expectations; and coordinate post-migration follow-up).

• Create and maintain detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project schedules;

• Engage application owners early to identify user-dependent applications and facilitate pre-migration compatibility testing; coordinate troubleshooting for identity/workstation changes that affect application access and workflows; validate post-migration authentication and access.
• Maintain authoritative migration tracking and dashboards (user readiness, application testing status, wave-level completion, exceptions and follow-up actions, PIV certificate updates, daily operational logs).
• Maintain a live Issue & Risk Log with severity, owner, ETA, and mitigation; escalate urgent items to the customer within one hour of identification.
• Publish a consolidated daily status update before 12:00 PM MT (counts, success/failure, remediation, and user impact) and a weekly executive summary with KPIs and trend analysis.

• Document root cause analysis and corrective action recommendation
• Document Lessons-Learned or Retrospects
• Must work effectively within the customer environment to comply with policies and procedures/processes
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field is preferred (At least 10 years of experience in IT systems integration and project management may be substituted in lieu of Bachelor’s degree)
• Current PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required
• At least 10 years’ experience in Project Management required
• Proficient in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with Federated Identity Management
• At least 3 years’ experience with cloud identity and access management
• Demonstrated experience migrating from Windows AD to Azure AD/Entra ID
• Demonstrated Change Management experience

• Successfully pass background and drug screening

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree
• Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI Certified)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Familiarity with Microsoft (MS)-Office automation products, including MS-Project, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Teams, MS-Teams Channels/Streams
• Knowledge of technical and functional requirements analysis and management
• Ability to constructively and collaboratively maintain project scope and change control
• Ability to work collaboratively in an environment with developing and often conflicting standards and documentation
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Must be able to pass the Public Trust Government background investigation
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Skilled working in a small team
• Ability to work in a high stress environment

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $95,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $115,000.00/Yr.