Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

Red Cell Partners • McLean, VA

18h • $220,000 - $260,000

About The Position

As a Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager at Trase, you will own technical program execution dedicated to Red Cell Federal (RCF), Red Cell Partners (RCP), and their incubations and portfolio companies. The role is part of Trase’s dedicated RCF/RCP support team and focuses on federal, government, and national security programs. You will help partner companies adopt and operate Trase OS in their environments, translating partner requirements into secure, reliable deployments and sustained operational support.

You will work with full-stack software engineers and DevOps/SRE engineers, and partner closely with Trase Platform Engineering, Product, GRC, and RCF/RCP technical leaders. The scope includes partner onboarding, integrations, environment readiness, releases, and ongoing support. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring ownership of decisions, dependency resolution, and delivery commitments from initial request through validated customer acceptance.

At Staff level, you will independently lead complex RCF/RCP programs across engineering, security, operations, and partner teams, resolving ambiguity and driving measurable delivery and operational outcomes. At Senior Staff level, you will lead a portfolio of interdependent programs, shape engagement and delivery models, influence roadmap and investment tradeoffs with senior leaders, and establish scalable practices across partner deployments.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, as required by assigned programs.
• 8–10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related technical delivery roles, with demonstrated Staff-level scope.
• For Senior Staff scope, broader multi-program leadership and organizational influence.
• Track record of delivering complex software, infrastructure, or platform programs to external customers, including in secure or regulated environments.
• Strong technical judgment and experience leading cross-team execution, prioritization, risk management, and customer-facing escalations under ambiguity.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, security specialists, partner teams, and executives, including the ability to challenge unclear requirements and negotiate realistic commitments.
• Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, and integration boundaries sufficient to inspect technical plans, challenge assumptions, and lead tradeoff discussions.
• Experience with cloud and/or on-premises deployments, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, identity/access, and secrets management.
• Working familiarity with secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, observability, and operational readiness.
• Ability to translate security and compliance requirements into engineering deliverables and validation evidence in partnership with GRC.

Nice To Haves

• Prior technical program management experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs, including work with government customers and delivery partners.
• An active U.S. government security clearance.
• Experience navigating RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, POA&M remediation tracking, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 environments.
• Experience with Second Front or comparable federal deployment platforms, government cloud environments, and ongoing support of authorized systems.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, agent integrations, or developer tools across multiple partner organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own RCF/RCP program delivery by translating ambiguous requests into scoped user stories, acceptance criteria, owners, dependencies, and small, testable milestones, and confirming feasibility with engineers before committing dates.
• Establish a single intake process and prioritized backlog with Product and RCF/RCP counterparts, distinguishing production blockers, security obligations, committed customer needs, and exploratory requests.
• Keep partner-facing plans aligned with engineering execution.
• Drive secure deployment readiness across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments, tracking infrastructure prerequisites, access, networking, secrets, model-provider integrations, and end-to-end workflow validation.
• Partner with GRC and security owners to incorporate applicable RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements into delivery plans, drive engineering remediation and evidence readiness, and manage approval dependencies and responsibility boundaries.
• Coordinate release and image handoffs, including versioning, compatibility, vulnerability scan results, software bills of materials, release manifests, deployment guides, and rollback readiness; verify readiness before partner delivery.
• Drive ongoing support for federal deployments, including Second Front where applicable, tracking patching, hardening, upgrades, security findings, and sustainment commitments with named engineering and GRC owners.
• Coordinate partner issue triage and technical escalations across the dedicated team and shared platform teams, driving closure of integration, performance, reliability, and observability gaps against agreed acceptance criteria.
• Build repeatable onboarding and operational handoffs through runbooks, architecture and data-flow documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.
• Run planning, grooming, and delivery reviews; escalate risks and give technical and executive stakeholders visibility into commitments, capacity, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions.
• Surface reusable partner needs for the core platform roadmap.
• At Senior Staff level, lead a portfolio of interdependent RCF/RCP programs, shape engagement and delivery models, influence roadmap and investment tradeoffs, and establish practices that scale across partner deployments.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
• 100% employer-paid comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and family.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives.
• Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed