Program Technical Manager

Camgian Corporation•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Camgian is seeking an experienced Program Technical Manager to support our growing business. As a Program Technical Manager, you are the primary interface with government customers across DoD agencies. Working closely with the customer, you understand the program objectives, problem scope, and define high-level program requirements. As a technical lead on the program, you perform requirements decomposition, contribute to system/software architecture, work collaboratively with the technical team to come up with innovative solutions, technical approaches, and algorithms. Put together high-level technical work plans, schedules, and guide the engineering team in successful development and demonstration of the solution/product to the customer. As one of the technical leaders for the company, the candidate should complement the existing team and bring a depth in a domain or discipline that extends our capabilities. They should also be comfortable providing training and mentoring to staff in these areas. The Program Technical Manager also helps formulate intellectual property strategies to minimize solution costs and to generate company value. The ideal candidate encourages an environment that promotes excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork. This role will report to the EVP of Product Development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or relevant technical degree
10+ years of relevant and progressive professional experience
Subject matter expertise and hands-on experience in software development and/or algorithm, machine learning model development for complex systems
Demonstrated experience in translating customer needs to high-level requirements, success criteria, feature definitions, feature requirements, and design specifications
Demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams to meet program objectives and deliver high quality solutions to the customer
Demonstrated ability to identify, manage, and mitigate program technical risks
Track record of successful program completions demonstrating the final solution/product and value proposition to the end customer
Strong presentation skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
Ability to work under pressure and within deadlines
United States Citizenship

Nice To Haves

Experience in the following areas is strongly desired
Familiarity with government contracts, processes, and program execution
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) including familiarity with a modeling language like UML, SysML, or a defense architecture framework
Ability to work and communicate complex problems at multiple levels of abstraction
Modeling & Simulation
Expertise in distributed systems architecture and patterns
Expertise in developing algorithms for sensor signal processing using statistical methods
Expertise in developing image/video processing algorithms using traditional computer vision and/or machine learning techniques
Expertise in modern AI and machine learning frameworks, concepts, model development, hyper-parameter tuning, and model deployment
Expertise in processing large volumes of data, feature extraction, and using data science techniques to extract useful information
Experience in heterogeneous data fusion to create higher levels of actionable information and intelligence
Knowledge of sensor modalities such as active RF, passive RF, EO/IR, LiDAR, acoustic, magnetic etc.
Understanding capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs of technologies across engineering subject matters

Responsibilities

Define sub-system architecture, algorithms, key technical attributes, and tasks required to develop products and solutions
Define acceptance criteria for technical work and definition of done for tasks
Work with development team to estimate efforts and resource needs to accomplish feature development, release goals, and milestones
Mentor and provide technical oversight to engineers working on the program to achieve function, schedule, and budgets
Determine if the product/solution meets acceptance criteria and achieves the value proposition for customer
Work collaboratively with program manager to assist in planning program activities, manage resources, effectively manage program budgets, and identify/manage/mitigate program risks
Prepare, write, and review technical reports for submission to external customers
Plan, prepare, and conduct program reviews and program demonstrations for government customers
Work closely with cross-functional team to deliver high quality solutions that accomplish program and Camgian objectives
Interface with customer technical representatives to build customer confidence and trust
Contribute to proposals, writing technical approaches, statement of work, task breakdown, effort estimates, and preparing cost volume
Support business development efforts by creating quad charts, writing white papers, and participating in meetings to support BD from a technical perspective
Provide leadership and contribute to development process improvements and other operational improvement initiatives