IV&V Senior Consultant
Location: US, CA, Sacramento
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Consulting
Salary range: 110000-135000
Company profile: Sabot is a management consulting company focused on providing technical and management consulting to IT executives and managers in strategic, operational, and project-based practice areas. You will work as part of a team of highly experienced professionals to service clients in both government and commercial sectors. Sabot's role within all of our engagements is to be a force multiplier for the client, empowering them to achieve their goals and objectives with a concentration on sustainability. Our focus on providing expert staff that have the knowledge, experience, and professionalism to engage the client at all levels is the key to our success. 
Description: Sabot is seeking an Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Senior Consultant.  The Senior Consultant participates on, or leads a team, conducting oversight and assessment activities for large-scale software development projects.  The IV&V Senior Consultant must be knowledgeable and practiced in all aspects of information technology system life cycle development processes.  The IV&V Senior Consultant interacts with multiple technical and business stakeholders and supports the client in assuring the successful outcome of the systems development / implementation life cycle.  Duties include assessing the quality and compliance with industry accepted practices of the project’s processes, work products, and deliverables. Further responsibilities include tracking the response to recommendations made in the reports to ensure the system integrator and/or the client are addressing the risks in order to ensure successful outcomes.The successful candidate has demonstrated their ability to deliver client business value as a project assurance consultant by presenting findings and issues to technical and business stakeholders in a professional manner based on the facts through a data driven approach and without bias.
Requirements: Specific Responsibilities:Participate on or lead a team in review and assessment of the methodologies, processes, plans, tasks, work products, and deliverables produced by a system integration vendor or client implementation team and provide recommendations for improving quality and maximizing business value realization.Communicate and collaborate effectively with project staff and customers to solve complex issues.Support the client management and stakeholders to plan for and address risks and issues as they occur, in an effort to ensure that the project remains on schedule and within budget.Develop and deliver comprehensive periodic assessment reports containing results of oversight tasks and recommendations for improvement.Develop and deliver anomaly reports reviewing specific processes, work products, deliverables, or other project attributes offering an assessment of their soundness, appropriateness, and ability to contribute to project success. Make specific actionable recommendations to address any anomalies or findings reported.Required Skills and Experience:At least five (5) years IV&V experience on large-scale software development and systems implementation projects applying Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) industry standards.At least 5 years serving as project manager or system/software engineer on large-scale business systems development and implementation projects..At least five (5) years experience analyzing application, network, hardware and software operating platform performance characteristics relative to expected/anticipated/contractually guaranteed results and industry standards/expectations.At least five (5) years experience in two or more of the following specializations:Business requirements and business flow development and facilitationSystem / IT infrastructure securityLegacy system languages (e.g., COBOL)System/User test management and executionSystem architecture designService Oriented Architecture (SOA)Database design and developmentAt least two (2) years experience facilitating documentation of business requirements and related business process flows.At least two (2) years experience implementing or assessing projects using the Agile methodology.Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders, including interacting with all levels of internal and external client staff.Ability to apply project management techniques, tools and methodologies.Ability to prepare high quality formal written documentation addressing complex technical concepts for a non-technical audience.Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.Currently hold the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (highly desirable).Possess a Bachelors degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science or other related field.“Large-scale” is defined as a project with one-time costs for services greater than $25 million and designed to handle over 1,000 simultaneous users.
Benefits: We provide comprehensive benefits and competitive salaries. Relocation assistance may be available.
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