Principal Technical Project Manager
About The Position
The Technical Project Manager (TPM) supports the Agile Release Train Program Manager and Technical Lead in developing Epics, Features, and application roadmaps for designing and developing new and existing applications. The TPM helps customers achieve mission outcomes and drives innovation throughout the engagement lifecycle through iterative feedback. The role requires strategic thinking, understanding requirements, anticipating risks, making decisions guided by policies, procedures, and business plans with limited guidance, and collaborating across roles to understand customer mission objectives and define project goals. The TPM identifies and mitigates risks and develops implementation timelines within a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment. The role provides direct leadership and interaction with software development teams and serves as a key customer liaison, with basic technical knowledge of complex system and application development. Working with internal systems engineers, the TPM ensures customer priorities are planned through the implementation lifecycle and coordinates technical planning, Agile teams, mission customers, verification, validation, and deployments. The position is onsite in Bethesda, Maryland, and requires U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph. The posting specifies a Monday–Friday, 40-hour work week.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with at least a CI polygraph; the position information also states TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) is required.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor’s degree and 12 or more years of experience; work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- In-depth knowledge of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and development practices.
- In-depth experience as a technical expert across multiple project assignments while supervising others.
- Exposure to web and mobile application development teams and comprehensive knowledge across key tasks on high-impact assignments.
- Experience operating in SAFe and Agile frameworks and planning and leading major technology assignments.
- Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes that affect short-term project growth and success.
Nice To Haves
- Experience using SAFe as the Agile development methodology.
- Previous hands-on software development or infrastructure experience.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- Experience with biometric examiner workflows and business processes.
- Basic knowledge of major biometric commercial off-the-shelf solutions, such as IDEMIA and Rank One.
- Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma, or other optimization methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Support the Agile Release Train Program Manager and Technical Lead in developing Epics, Features, and application roadmaps for new and existing applications.
- Collaborate across roles to understand customer mission objectives and define project goals.
- Identify and mitigate risks and develop implementation timelines in a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment.
- Lead and interact directly with one or more software development teams and serve as a customer liaison.
- Coordinate with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned through the implementation lifecycle.
- Manage technical planning and coordination between Agile teams and mission customers.
- Coordinate verification, validation, and deployments.
- Execute project plans, respond to customer needs, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate, and capture and validate requirements.
- Develop and manage project governance plans, schedules, team goals, success criteria, milestones, and budgets while identifying and mitigating execution limitations.
- Communicate complex concepts clearly to customers and technical teammates, adapting communication style to context.
- Use judgment and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams and manage client expectations.
- Use Agile delivery methods to lead business and technical project teams while managing scope, schedule, and cost to achieve project goals.
- Track team work through completion of all deliverables accepted into a PI.
- Coordinate with team members and customer groups to ensure stories contain the information needed to complete work and that necessary stories are created.
- Coordinate and socialize production changes and brief appropriate boards for deployment approval.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
