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IT Project Manager

SAIC

Colorado Springs, COJob$100–140K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$100–140K/yr
Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Active PMP CertificationTop Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks an onsite IT Project Manager in Colorado Springs to lead project management activities for a DoD support organization. The role oversees capability delivery across the project lifecycle for enterprise software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and network systems, applying Project Management Institute best practices. The manager coordinates stakeholders and teams, tracks project progress, manages risks and scope changes, and supports cyber accreditation and network operations sustainment.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ManagementRisk ManagementMultitaskingPrioritizationTime ManagementVerbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationITIL V4 FoundationsScrumAgileCiscoVMwareMicrosoftCybersecurity

Qualifications

Bachelor's+2 or Master's+0Active PMP Certification10 Years IT Project ManagementSecret Clearance or Top Secret EligibilityDoD or Federal Government ExperienceCOCOM or Senior DoD Staff Experience

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking an IT Project Manager onsite in Colorado Springs to work in a fast pace, dynamic DoD support organization. You will lead a wide range of Project Management activities and ensures use of Project Management Institute best practices. The IT Project Manager is responsible for ensuring capability delivery via the project lifecycle that provisions enterprise software, infrastructure, cyber security, and network systems. You will ensure progress via well planned, communicated, and documented actions within the Initiation Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Control/Monitoring, and Closing Phase.

Responsibilities:

  • Works aggressively across directorate leadership, program managers, and other key stakeholders to ensure full integration and synchronization of Project Management activities.

  • Ensures meeting coordination and clarity of scope, policy compliance, alignment within strategic objectives and program/portfolio plans, and thorough communication plan execution.

  • Works with other PMs and Task Managers to ensure engineering, cyber and operations SME resource leveling actions to deliver projects.

  • Directs project team to follow comprehensive communications and stakeholder engagement plan.

  • Updates MS Project plans, maintain files on Project Server, & MS SharePoint.

  • Use MS Office products to create and maintain project plans, schedules, Statements of Work, Bill of Materials, risk registers, presentations and briefings.

  • Applies Risk Management principles to identify, analyze, mitigate, accept or ignore risks for all projects.

  • Coordinates activities with IT Portfolio Managers, governance/policy leads, Resource Managers, Program Managers, and government leads to ensure desired solutions are supportable/documented across all functions to include full cyber accreditation and network operations sustainment.

  • Ensures all Scope changes are fully vetted and documented.

  • Works closely with engineering and operations teams to minimize design time and reduce service transition risks.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and 0 years related experience.

  • Active PMP Certification.

  • 10 years’ experience in IT Project Management.

  • Secret clearance with ability to secure a Top Secret clearance.

  • DOD or Federal Government experience.

  • Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and apply other time management skills to operate effectively in a highly fluid, fast-paced environment.

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, in both day-to-day operational and IT management interaction contexts.

Desired Qualifications:

  • ITIL V4 Foundations certified.

  • Scrum or Agile Certified.

  • CISCO, VMWare, Microsoft, Cyber Security certification(s) a strong plus.

  • COCOM and/or similar senior DOD staff experience.

Target salary range: $100,001 - $140,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618333

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 23,233 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$100–140K/yr
  • Colorado median$110–160K/yr676 salary ranges
  • US median$110–179K/yr14,582 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $120K, is 11% below the Colorado median midpoint ($135K) — in the middle half of Project Manager salary ranges in Colorado.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 848 open Project Manager jobs in Colorado and 23,233 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Colorado
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (20,163 postings).
Education
12,903 of the 23,233 open Project Manager jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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