Sr. Principal Technical Services Project Management

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription
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Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Sector's Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) is seeking a Senior Principal Technical Services Project Management
to support IT Infrastructure and Operations (ITIO) organization. The selected candidate will act as a Special Projects Execution Lead to drive coordination, governance, and disciplined delivery across a portfolio of complex, cross‑functional initiatives. In this highly visible role, you will own portfolio cadence, reporting, and communications, while coaching ITIO teams and vendors to strengthen delivery rigor, risk management, and operational readiness.
This position directly supports CIDO and ITIO leadership in achieving critical cost, schedule, and performance objectives. The ITIO organization is managing a rapidly expanding portfolio of complex, cross‑functional initiatives that demand consistent coordination, strong governance, and disciplined execution. To meet this need, we are establishing a dedicated Execution & Coordination Lead to provide structured oversight for high‑priority efforts, including Dell Transformational License Agreement (TLA) utilization, Broadcom Enterprise Agreement (EA) utilization, client/server patching improvements, and critical operational initiatives. The initial focus of this role will be driving utilization, communication, coordination, reporting, and planning related to the Dell TLA and Broadcom EAs.
This role will own cadence, reporting, and communications across ITIO, vendors, and stakeholders, ensuring that resources are allocated to the highest‑value work, risks and issues are actively managed, and changes are implemented predictably and transparently.
In addition, this role will accelerate delivery and strengthen rigor across all ITIO efforts, serving as the central coordinator for ITIO strategic initiatives as they arise. The Senior Principal Technical Services Project Management role will partner with our Governance and Strategy organization to standardize lightweight project approaches and agile practices, and will provide leadership in status reporting, risk management, and dependency visibility. Through these responsibilities, the role will reduce operational risk, improve cost efficiency, and increase overall delivery reliability. Rather than duplicating the work of the Project Management organization, this position will complement it by applying execution discipline within ITIO’s operational context and ensuring that ITIO’s strategic and operational initiatives are delivered consistently and with measurable business value
This is a virtual/remote role, however the preferred candidate will work eastern standard hours and preferably live on the east coast.
Key Responsibilities:
Portfolio Governance & Reporting
Serve as the central point for project, program, and operational initiative tracking and reporting within IT Infrastructure and Operations (ITIO), bringing consistent rigor to the management and oversight of initiatives.
Establish and maintain portfolio‑level dashboards and status reporting to provide leadership with clear visibility into progress, risks, issues, and dependencies across ITIO initiatives.
Lead and coordinate Project Management Reviews (PMRs) and other recurring governance forums, ensuring status, issues, and decision needs are communicated to stakeholders in a timely and concise manner.
Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management
Identify, track, and drive resolution of risks, issues, and opportunities across the ITIO portfolio, including escalation and coordination with CIDO and Global Operations as appropriate.
Ensure clear ownership, due dates, and follow‑through on risk and issue mitigations, including cross‑functional dependencies and vendor-delivered work.
Operational Readiness & Change Management
Engage with other CIDO service line teams to plan, deploy, and integrate new capabilities and initiatives that impact ITIO, with a focus on operational readiness, supportability, and change management.
Partner with HR and Communications to plan and execute communication and change‑management activities for major ITIO initiatives.
Technical / Tooling Skills
Experience with enterprise PM/Agile tooling (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, Clarity, ServiceNow, or equivalent) for portfolio tracking, backlog management, and reporting.
Familiarity with IT infrastructure and operations domains (e.g., endpoint management, networking, cloud platforms, identity & access management, observability/monitoring).
Experience with ITIL/ITSM practices (incident, problem, change, and configuration management) and how they intersect with project and program delivery.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Experience designing and operating governance cadences across multiple initiatives (steering committees, PMRs, risk reviews).
Strong risk management discipline, including IF/DUE TO/BY/THEN risk articulation, contingency planning, and mitigation tracking.
Familiarity with regulatory, security, or audit requirements that impact IT infrastructure and operations.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders (IT, HR, Communications, vendors, business partners).
Demonstrated experience leading cross‑functional teams through change, including adoption of new processes, tools, or operating models.
Strong relationship‑building skills with internal partners (e.g., HR, Communications, Finance, Global Operations) and external vendors.
Communication & Change Management
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex technical and operational issues into executive‑ready messaging.
Experience planning and executing change‑management and communications activities in partnership with HR and Communications (e.g., stakeholder analyses, communication plans, training materials).
Ability to create and maintain clear, concise artifacts (roadmaps, one‑page summaries, FAQs, decision logs) that support executive visibility and workforce adoption.
Operational Excellence & Analytics
Experience defining and tr