Change Request Manager at Careers Tier1, Merrifield, VA
Change Request Manager at Careers Tier1 in Merrifield, VA. Contract. Apply with swipeandhired.
Type
CTH
Overview
PLEASE NOTE: No corp-to-corp candidates will be accepted.
- Tier One Technologies is seeking a Change Request Manager to support our Federal client’s Delivery & Retail Systems Support Program across multiple active and emerging initiatives. This role will help deliver cost-effective solutions that improve performance and meet business needs related to software change management and retail equipment.
- This role operates at the intersection of enterprise architecture, supplier oversight, and delivery governance.
- This onsite Contract-to-Hire position will be located in Merrifield, VA.
- SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance in defining system- and enterprise-level requirements and designing Delivery & Retail Technologies (DRT) solutions.
- Facilitate the collection and analysis of technical requirements from system owners to ensure successful integration across platforms and applications.
- Develop technology designs as required and provide ongoing technical support throughout the development lifecycle, including leading technical review sessions, overseeing testing and certification activities, and supporting deployment.
- Develop enterprise-level technology and process architectures for Delivery and Retail domains, applying industry best practices to optimize performance and reduce the company’s total cost of ownership.
- Provide independent business and technical analysis of task orders—including software development initiatives—issued to other suppliers.
- Develop level-of-effort (LOE) and rough-order-of-magnitude (ROM) estimates to evaluate supplier proposals and ensure appropriate schedules, resources, and costs are proposed.
- Coordinate with vendors and third-party technical teams to support change planning, implementation, and delivery.
Qualifications
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services.
- 8+ years of relevant Enterprise Software Development environment.
- Ability to recognize technical risks and dependencies before development begins.
- Ability to analyze complex software changes across multiple systems and technical organizations.
- Ability to ask appropriate technical questions during business and technical discussions.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to Program Managers and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to coordinate technical teams during high-priority production incidents.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, planning, documentation, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating requirements collection across multi-stakeholder environments.
- Proven ability to develop LOE/ROM estimates and critically evaluate supplier proposals.
- Experience developing enterprise-level technology and process architectures using industry best practices.
- Familiarity with software development task order management and supplier oversight.
- Ability to ask appropriate technical questions during business and technical discussions to elicit complete and accurate requirements.
- One or more of the following certifications is required:
- ITIL Foundation or higher (Change Management Track)
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
- SAFe Architect or equivalent enterprise architecture certification
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture framework certification
- Excellent communication skills, leadership, organization, time management, budget management, risk management, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork.
- Software project planning and change planning.
- Technical discovery and requirements review.
- Development readiness assessment.
- Familiarity with APIs and Web Services integration, Application and server architecture principles, Cross-platform integration design, Zoom and Microsoft Office products.
- Must be a US Citizen or permanent US Resident - Green Card holder.
- Must be eligible to obtain Public Trust clearance.
- Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
- Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.