Principal Technical Project Manager
About The Position
The Technical Project Manager 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 role helps customers achieve mission outcomes and drives innovation throughout the engagement lifecycle through iterative feedback. The TPM is a strategic thinker who understands requirements, anticipates risks, makes decisions guided by policies, procedures, and business plans with limited guidance, and collaborates across roles to understand customer mission objectives and define project goals. The role includes identifying and mitigating risks and developing implementation timelines in a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment. Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma, and other optimization methodologies is beneficial. The role provides direct leadership and interaction with one or more software development teams and serves as a key customer liaison, with basic technical knowledge of complex systems and application development. The TPM works with internal systems engineers to plan customer priorities 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 at least a CI polygraph; the posting also specifies a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP). The schedule is Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with at least a CI polygraph; the posting also states TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP).
- 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 within SAFe and Agile frameworks and planning and leading major technology assignments.
- Ability to understand requirements, anticipate risks, make decisions with limited guidance, and collaborate across roles.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts and adjust communication style to context.
- Ability to use judgment and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams and manage client expectations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
- Previous hands-on software development or infrastructure experience.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.
- 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, and other optimization methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Support the Agile Release Train Program Manager and Technical Lead in developing Epics, Features, and application roadmaps.
- Help customers achieve mission outcomes and drive innovation through iterative feedback mechanisms.
- Identify and mitigate risks and develop implementation timelines within a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment.
- Lead and interact with one or more software development teams and serve as a customer liaison.
- Work with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned throughout the implementation lifecycle.
- Coordinate technical planning between Agile teams and mission customers, including verification, validation, and deployments.
- Execute project plans; address customer needs; resolve and escalate issues 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, adjusting communication style to context.
- Use judgment and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams, and manage client expectations.
- Lead business and technical project teams using agile delivery methods 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.
- Evaluate performance results and recommend major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
