Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

Trase Systems • Seattle, VA

23h

About The Position

Trase is hiring a Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead technical program execution for Red Cell Federal (RCF), Red Cell Partners (RCP) incubations, and portfolio companies, with a focus on federal, government, and national security programs. The role helps partner organizations adopt and operate Trase OS in their environments, translating partner requirements into secure, reliable deployments and sustained operational support.

The position works with a dedicated team of full-stack software engineers and DevOps/SRE engineers, and partners closely with Trase Platform Engineering, Product, GRC, and RCF/RCP technical leaders. Its scope includes partner onboarding, integrations, environment readiness, releases, and ongoing support. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, responsible for driving decisions, resolving dependencies, and holding delivery commitments accountable from initial request through validated customer acceptance.

Staff-level expectations include independently leading complex programs across engineering, security, operations, and partner teams. At Senior Staff level, the role leads a portfolio of interdependent programs, shapes engagement and delivery models, influences roadmap and investment tradeoffs with senior leaders, and establishes practices that scale 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; broader multi-program leadership and organizational influence for Senior Staff.
• 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

• Translate ambiguous RCF/RCP requests into scoped user stories, acceptance criteria, owners, dependencies, and small, testable milestones; confirm feasibility with engineers before committing dates.
• Establish a single intake and prioritized backlog with Product and RCF/RCP counterparts, distinguishing production blockers, security obligations, and committed customer needs from 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, evidence readiness, and approval dependencies while maintaining clear 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.
• Drive 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, delivery reviews, and risk escalation; give technical and executive stakeholders clear 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 scalable practices.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
• 100% employer-paid comprehensive health care, including medical, dental, and vision 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 available.
• Mental health benefits available through Tara Mind.

What This Job Offers

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