Project Manager - Technical
About The Position
The Project Manager - Technical coordinates Agile delivery across product managers, developers, QA engineers, and federal stakeholders. The role serves as the engineering authority within cross-functional delivery teams, ensuring architectural consistency, governance compliance, and alignment with mission objectives. It supports day-to-day delivery and long-term modernization strategy for AWS-hosted, microservices-based platforms. The position leads technical strategy and architectural decisions, coaches engineering teams, resolves impediments, and supports secure, scalable, and compliant system delivery. It balances hands-on engineering leadership with cross-team coordination to accelerate delivery while maintaining long-term platform stability. Responsibilities span cloud-native design, DevSecOps implementation, infrastructure as code, and team enablement in federal cloud modernization environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of professional engineering experience.
- Expertise in cloud architecture with at least one major cloud provider; AWS is preferred.
- Experience with Agile delivery and team leadership.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
- Full-stack engineering experience with Java/Node.js and modern front-end frameworks.
- Experience with API design and microservices.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with testing strategies and federal security practices.
- DHS EOD background investigation.
Nice To Haves
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or Security Specialty.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, JMS, SQS/SNS, Kafka, Lambda, NiFi, and PKI environments.
- Familiarity with Mocha or Chai, DevOps environments, Istio service mesh, and OpenAPI 3.0.
- Excellent communication, documentation, mentoring, and stakeholder coordination skills.
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver software within Agile frameworks, coordinate sprint execution, and participate in program-level ceremonies.
- Partner with Product Managers to translate business direction into actionable technical plans and achievable increments.
- Define architectural standards, patterns, and conventions for cloud-native applications, microservices, and API design.
- Lead technology stack selection to support scalability, maintainability, and federal security expectations.
- Establish and optimize CI/CD pipelines and development workflows in alignment with program architecture and DevSecOps practices.
- Build serverless and containerized platforms on AWS using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS/Fargate, and distributed messaging.
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation for consistent, secure, and automated environment deployments.
- Ensure engineering teams comply with federal security guidelines, governance controls, accessibility requirements, and program objectives.
- Embed secure coding and DevSecOps practices, including automated scanning, vulnerability mitigation, and policy as code.
- Mentor developers, SDETs, cloud engineers, and DevSecOps personnel across multiple scrum teams, elevating engineering standards and delivery quality.
- Remove technical roadblocks and facilitate communication across QA, security, operations, and management.
Benefits
- Flexible time off benefit.
- Robust learning resources.
- Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Competitive compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
