Technical Product Manager

T-Rex Solutions•Falls Church, VA

4h•$100,000 - $175,000

About The Position

T-Rex Solutions is seeking a qualified Technical Product Manager to provide technical leadership, product strategy, and delivery management in partnership with Defense Health Agency (DHA) stakeholders. This role drives value definition, roadmap development, and end-to-end delivery of enterprise data governance, metadata, repository, and catalog capabilities. The TPM ensures product execution across geographically dispersed teams, enabling alignment, transparency, and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in technical product management or data focused solution delivery.
Proven success managing products in distributed team environments.
Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, cataloging platforms, and repository design.
Experience in federal or regulated environments with familiarity in FISMA, NIST SP 80053, HIPAA, and DoD data policies.
Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, visual, and asynchronous.
Experience with Agile or iterative development using remote collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro, Teams, Zoom).
U.S. Citizenship required; eligibility for security clearance; active DoD security clearance preferred.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Management, or related field.
Skilled in organizing distributed teams, managing competing priorities, and maintaining momentum in remote settings.
Experience with metadata modeling, crosswalk analysis, catalog federation, and data lifecycle management.
Comfort using virtual diagramming and collaboration tools (Visio, Miro, Lucid, or DHA approved equivalents).
Data analytics or governance certifications (CDMP, PL300/DA100, etc.).
Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) beneficial but not required.
Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe, Agile PM).

Responsibilities

Provide overall program and technical leadership.
Serve as the primary coordination point for issue resolution, escalations, and expectation management across time zones and partner organizations.
Responsible for oversight of all risk mitigation.
Define product vision and value propositions through virtual workshops, remote interviews, digital whiteboards, and collaborative online planning tools.
Prioritize features and requirements across multiple data governance and metadata initiatives while maintaining clear communication in an asynchronous delivery environment.
Translate DHA, DOW, and federal compliance requirements into technical product specifications accessible to distributed teams.
Lead structured engagement sessions with DHA domain owners, data stewards, SMEs, and leadership, using remote facilitation practices to ensure clarity, participation, and decision-making.
Maintain strong communication rhythms through virtual standups, sprint reviews, remote PI planning, and asynchronous updates.
Oversee distributed engineering, architecture, and analytics teams delivering capabilities such as: Metadata frameworks, Automated metadata extraction, Data lifecycle processes, Repository and catalog features, Governance and lineage models
Lead scenario-based evaluations and virtual proof of concepts, coordinating demos with vendors and stakeholders.
Ensure teams adhere to federal security, NIST SP 80053, HIPAA, DOW policies, and DHA cybersecurity expectations.
Coordinate secure handling of sensitive data (PHI, PII) using DHA approved tools and controlled-access environments.
Enable development and documentation of metadata models, crosswalks, catalog structures, and repository taxonomies.
Facilitate change control cycles, retrospectives, and iterative improvement conversations.
Lead training sessions, onboarding, and handover activities using DHA approved collaboration platforms.