Solutions Architect

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our team in Amarillo, TX. This is a 4 month assignment.

• Guide the IT Business Office with configuring/implementing Strategic Portfolio Management Pro Zurich, to include portfolio planning and management, project management, project prioritization, resource management, roadmaps, capacity planning, and financial planning.
• Guide the IT Business Office with setting up metrics, reporting, dashboards, and roadmaps. Contractor will assist in creating a resource pool of all IT resources and sub-contractors and creating resource plans on projects.
• Assist in creating a resource pool of all IT resources and sub-contractors and creating resource management by assignments to project tasks.
• Demonstrate how to manage and track non-project work to provide a comprehensive view of resource allocations across all resources in IT.
• Provide expertise and knowledge around making sure adequate user rights have been established for the different roles.
• Specific Deliverables
  • Configured instance of Strategic Portfolio Management Pro (Service Now Xanadu version).
  • Verification that user rights have been correctly established based on user roles.
  • Portfolios created based on lenses.
  • Imported IT projects residing in the appropriate portfolios.
  • Create one roadmap, consisting of multiple projects.
  • Resource plans created for multiple projects.
  • A prioritized list of at least 20 projects.
  • Capacity Planning view that provides a comprehensive view of capacity, allocations, and utilization of resources.
  • Resource managers ability to approve requested resource assignments based on availability information or

• Associate's degree or higher and 2-5 or more years of experience.
• Service Now partner with certified expertise in 5PM PRO module (CIS over 100).
• Implementation experience and overall knowledge of Service Now with experience in Zurich (or Xanadu) version, specifically in Strategic Portfolio Management PRO (SPM PRO) – formerly known as Hybrid Project Management.
• Experience with implementing/using Project Management, Portfolio Management, and Resource Capacity Planning across all projects, to include optimizing ways to track and report on non-project work and project work.
• Experience in creating new portfolios, programs, workflows, resource management and roadmaps. Experience in configuring views, reports, and dashboards – all related to portfolio and project metrics.

About Us: Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.