Principal Technical Project Manager

Ideal Innovations, Inc.•Bethesda, MD

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Technical Project Manager supports the Agile Release Train Program Manager and Technical Lead in developing epics, features, and application roadmaps for new and existing applications. The role helps customers achieve mission outcomes and drives innovation through iterative feedback. The TPM works across roles to understand customer mission objectives, define project goals, anticipate risks, and make decisions guided by policies, procedures, and business plans, with limited guidance. The position provides direct leadership and interaction with software development teams and serves as a customer liaison with basic technical knowledge of complex system and application development. The TPM works with systems engineers to plan customer priorities throughout implementation, leads technical planning and coordination between Agile teams and mission customers, and coordinates verification, validation, and deployments. The work takes place in a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance with at least a CI polygraph; the posting also specifies TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP).
Bachelor’s degree and 12 or more years of experience; relevant 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.
Comprehensive knowledge applicable to high-impact assignments.
Experience operating in SAFe and Agile frameworks, including planning and leading major technology assignments.
Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

SAFe Agilist certification.
Scrum Alliance Scrum Master certification.
Experience using SAFe as the Agile development methodology.
Previous software development or infrastructure experience.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.
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.
Identify and mitigate risks, and develop implementation timelines.
Execute project plans, respond to customer needs, resolve or escalate issues, and capture and validate requirements.
Develop and manage project governance plans, schedules, team goals, success criteria, milestones, and budgets; identify and mitigate execution limitations.
Communicate complex concepts clearly to customers and technical teammates, adapting communication style to the context.
Use judgment and tact to challenge, recommend changes to, and redirect teams, while managing client expectations.
Lead project teams of business and technical resources using Agile delivery methods while managing scope, schedule, and cost.
Track team work through completion of deliverables accepted into a Program Increment (PI).
Coordinate with team members and customers to ensure stories contain the information needed to complete the work and that necessary stories are created.
Coordinate and socialize production changes and brief appropriate boards to obtain deployment approval.
Coordinate technical planning and work with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned through implementation.
Coordinate verification, validation, and deployments.