Cloud Alignment Manager

DescriptionLeidos has an opportunity for a Cloud Alignment Manager to lead, manage, direct and guide the efforts of the team that will take the engineering lead in transforming on-premise legacy systems to the cloud. The Cloud Alignment Manager will specifically focus his or her efforts to help lead migration efforts to the Oracle Software as a Service (SaaS) Human Capital Management (HCM).At Leidos, you are part of a work family that build solutions that matter! Come, play a pivotal role in transforming the Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) to the next generation human resources (HR) system that leverages the Oracle SaaS HCM. This new HR system, Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS), is a cloud-based personnel system that will integrate six different HR application databases (for each of the DCPDS DoD agencies) into one consolidated database and provide a core transactional system that makes it more flexible to share information between Component agencies while standardizing and streamlining personnel processes. The DHRMS HR system model will represent an Enterprise Common Model (ECM) that could then allow other agencies to leverage the government HR services. Other HR supporting applications reside within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), some integrate with DCHRMS, and others will transform into cloud solutions.The Leidos DCHRMS program has started incorporating continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) principles within our cloud transformation efforts and is working towards integrating test automation into our process-based and regression testing activities. Our model focuses on agile methodologies through continuous improvements to transition to a more DevOps approach of routinely integrating code changes into the main branch of a repository/baseline, and testing the changes, as early and often as possible. This approach starts with the decomposition of requirements to formulate them into user stories allowing the configuration and development teams to align their code and configurations to meet that of the acceptance criteria within each user story.The Cloud Alignment Manager is responsible to lead and manage the team to analyze and evaluate user functional needs and will decompose and align requirements into a functional specification and further align those requirements to the technical teams to implement and test for the final customer acceptance. As the Cloud Alignment Manager, you will oversee the entire alignment process into documented requirements so that the program can progress to getting the features deployed into the Oracle cloud.As the manager, you are expected to serve as a lead business systems analysis and may act as the Scrum Lead for SaaS HCM project implementations. You will be part of a fast-moving program team, using agile and scrum processes to transform our DoD customers to state-of-the-art cloud solutions. You are focused on working towards ensuring solutions are implemented while also being mindful of the expected delivery timelines, working collaboratively with the department and functional groups across the organization. Duties include coordinating with business and technology teams to decompose and align system requirements, transcribe requirements into user stories so they are in a state the configuration and development teams can execute, and complete design such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and execution of user acceptance criteria. Ability to capture functional requirements, lead scrum projects, if applicable, to assign and design capabilities to handle functional and system requirements. Works with developers and testers to ensure requirements are being met.This position will be remote, allowing you to reside within San Antonio area (where the program is managed) or where you currently live within the United States.Primary Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of 5-10 Leidos personnel to include managing the work oversight for the Cloud Alignment and Business & Functional Analysts teams

Maintain oversight of user stories, Functional Specification document, requirements Work Breakdown Structure, and the Requirements Traceability Matrix (mapping and tracking requirements to development, test, and deployment).

Analyze and evaluate user functional needs and decompose and align requirements into a functional/system specification and further align those requirements to the technical teams to implement

Perform systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, industry & best practices analysis to map and lay out the requirement details and orchestrate a path to requirements allocation and interface definition

Develop the associated User Stores derived from the decomposed requirements and conduct the technical management and integration of the User Stories

Review duration/ timeline analysis and actively participate in the scrum sprint planning efforts to ensure requirements are allocated to sprint/release development cycles

Collaborate with scrum teams to provide input to solutions to solving customer requirements into the HR systems; support the various scrum team(s) projects, focusing on solutions, status updates, detailed schedules and risks, develop mitigating actions for assigned risks, resolve/mitigate problems, and verify effectiveness of corrective actions

Leverage DCHRMS technical knowledge from the team(s) to ensure concepts are well documented and communicated to all applicable levels

Maintain the Decisions Log, recording all decisions that drive requirement & feature component allocations as well as key decisions points related to design and development implementation approaches

Communicate with senior leadership and potentially with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project

Proactively mitigate associated issues and impediments; empower your team to come forward with potential solutions that can be assessed; collaborate with other teams on key dependencies, associated mitigation strategies, and problem/issue resolutions

Lead and facilitate various requirement related scrum ceremonies as well as ad-hoc meetings, as applicable

Collaborate with program management and customers in forming strategies to improve performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness

Ensure requirements are being decomposed into user stories for the configuration/development teams to execute

Review metrics regularly to manage the team’s status and present progress regularly

Conduct team resource management; manage the growth, performance, and professional development of staff

Meet with the team routinely and identify growth opportunities as well as establish goals for your team

Basic Qualifications

Requires a BA/BS or equivalent experience and 5+ years or prior relevant experience or master’s with 3+ years of prior relevant experience

A strong system engineering background; understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts of agile, scrum and HR system implementations

Past engineering experience with mid to large, enterprise IT program(s) with understanding of project management principles and risk and opportunity management

Experience effectively communicating at senior levels within a customer organization

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Good team player who shares knowledge and experience with team members

Good team player who shares knowledge and experience with team members; ability to work in a fast-paced environment; capable of working under deadlines with minimal supervision

Capable of working under deadlines with minimal supervision

Must be a US Citizen, must meet eligibility requirements, and be able to obtain and maintain a position of public trust; candidate will be subject to a government-initiated security investigation

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of federal and DoD industry/government best practices

Has in-depth understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts of agile, scrum and HCM SaaS products.

Ability to work in agile environment and collaborate with other teams/groups in a fast-paced agile environment

Familiar with using the Atlassian Jira application

Already have an active Department of Defense (DoD) Public Trust Clearance

Understanding of database design, business system workflows, application support and system security principles

In-depth understanding of Oracle cloud technologies, OCI and HCM SaaS

Original Posting Date:2024-04-12While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.#RemoteREQNUMBER: R-00133469All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.