Technical Program Manager: Data Insights

Simplesense•Denver, CO

3d•$130,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base. Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. Mission critical facilities depend on utilities, life safety, security, and building automation control systems to maintain readiness 24/7/365. Simplesense protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack and enables facility managers and operators access to the latest technology as well as previously inaccessible information to monitor, diagnose, and respond faster to events in real-time. Our team combines decades of direct mission experience solving hard problems with awesome technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. Our core capabilities are Data Connectivity, Data Platform and Data Insights. The Technical Program Manager (TPM): Data Insights is responsible for establishing project requirements and tracking project budget and schedule to completion across an assigned program or portfolio aligned to a core capability. They work closely with the Product Owners to ensure technical requirements are understood, planned,completed within the desired parameters. They coordinate and deconflict across sprint teams to ensure individual project completion and overall program on-budget and on-time delivery. The TPM represents the customer’s requirements to the engineering team and represents the company to the customer. The TPM reports to the Director of Programs and is supported by the Staff Technical Program Manager.

Requirements

7+ years with demonstrated success in managing project delivery to customers
Extensive experience managing multiple concurrent interrelated projects, preferably within a large-scale data, SaaS, or enterprise software environment.
Demonstrated translation between traditional waterfall and agile models
Demonstrated use of project management tools for tracking (Jira, Asana, etc)
Solid understanding of Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum
Familiarity with small business and startup culture, Department of Defense project experience is a bonus
T-shaped person (experience in many things, depth in a handful) with depth in one or more of the following is important: Project Management of Networking Development Software Development Cybersecurity, outage monitoring, and incident response Network Operations, NOC/SOC day-to-day support and operations Continuous improvement to optimize processes and procedures DevSecOps Set up, configuration and operation of project management tooling
Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC).
Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

Clearly distill customer and internal product requirements into actionable tasks
Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to define projects
Employ a pragmatic approach to balancing deadlines, budgets, features, and capacity
Track underway tasks and projects to completion, including subcontractor tasks
Identify prioritization and staffing constraints; work with leadership to resolve
Identify and manage risk for projects and initiatives across an assigned portfolio
Communicate and report formal program status for schedules, budgets and risks
Collaborate with Staff Technical Program Manager on continuous improvement
Orchestrate program-level ceremonies for dependency resolution and de-confliction
Represent Simplesense when required to customers, partners, and subcontractors