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GuidehousePosted 2 weeks ago

Technical Project Manager

On-siteMcLean, Virginia, United States

Full TimeLarge

Job Summary

Lead end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical initiatives supporting the GrantSolutions contract, including application modernization, system enhancements, integrations, and cloud adoption. Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and agile squads while managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks to achieve measurable outcomes. Establish governance baselines, define work breakdown structures, and oversee financial management through forecasting, variance analysis, and escalation of financial risks. Drive release readiness, operational transitions, and stakeholder adoption across AWS-hosted environments and Java-based applications. Prepare executive dashboards, status reports, and decision briefs to communicate progress, tradeoffs, and required actions. Maintain audit-ready project records and facilitate planning sessions, risk reviews, and stakeholder forums. Manage vendor performance against contractual obligations and resolve conflicts to ensure service continuity.

Required Qualifications

  • Ability to Obtain Public Trust
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust
  • approved adjudication is required before onboarding
  • An active Public Trust or suitability determination
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, project management, or a related field
  • Minimum TEN (10) years of prior relevant experience
  • Minimum of eight years of experience managing complex software development, cloud, systems integration, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, or enterprise technology initiatives
  • Demonstrated success managing end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholder groups, including projects in which legacy and modern platforms operate concurrently
  • Strong command of project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, cost, resource, quality, procurement, risk, communications, stakeholder, and change management
  • Experience using Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, and predictive delivery approaches, with the judgment to tailor practices to project risk, complexity, governance, and contractual needs
  • Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and modern delivery practices, including cloud environments, application development, integrations, testing, release management, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and operational readiness
  • Experience managing technical initiatives involving AWS cloud environments and Java-based applications, with the ability to understand dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and operational impacts at a project-management level
  • Ability to understand architecture diagrams, interface dependencies, technical tradeoffs, nonfunctional requirements, and security or compliance constraints, and translate them into actionable plans without serving as the solution architect
  • Experience establishing governance, baselines, stage gates, acceptance criteria, metrics, dashboards, and audit-ready project documentation
  • Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, estimating, forecasting, variance analysis, EAC, ETC, and resource capacity planning
  • Demonstrated ability to identify root causes, evaluate options, manage ambiguity, resolve conflict, negotiate commitments, and drive timely risk-based decisions
  • Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused, and solution-oriented leadership style
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project or an equivalent scheduling tool
  • working proficiency with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and dashboard or reporting tools
  • Self-motivated and adaptable, with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, sound professional judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment
  • Collaborative leadership: Builds alignment around a shared vision, sets clear expectations, delegates effectively, and empowers teams to take ownership of outcomes
  • Emotional intelligence: Demonstrates self-awareness, empathy, composure, and situational awareness when navigating high-pressure environments and diverse perspectives
  • Communication and active listening: Communicates with clarity and transparency, tailors messages to the audience, asks thoughtful questions, and confirms shared understanding
  • Influence and negotiation: Builds consensus and secures commitments across teams and stakeholders, including situations where direct authority is limited
  • Conflict resolution: Addresses disagreement early, facilitates constructive dialogue, separates issues from individuals, and drives practical, equitable resolutions
  • Adaptability and resilience: Remains calm and effective amid shifting priorities, incomplete information, technical complexity, and delivery pressure
  • Decisiveness and accountability: Makes timely, evidence-based decisions, communicates tradeoffs, follows through on commitments, and holds self and others constructively accountable
  • Integrity and trust: Models ethical behavior, discretion, reliability, transparency, and respect in interactions with clients, partners, and team members
  • Coaching and team development: Provides actionable feedback, recognizes contributions, supports professional growth, and creates psychological safety for questions, learning, and responsible escalation
  • Inclusive collaboration: Values varied expertise and perspectives, promotes respectful participation, and fosters productive partnerships across technical, business, vendor, and Federal teams

Desired Qualifications

  • PMP certification
  • PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable agile, service management, or scaled delivery certification
  • Experience delivering federal or regulated technology programs aligned with government lifecycle, cybersecurity, accessibility, privacy, records management, and audit requirements
  • Experience supporting delivery of AWS-hosted applications, Java-based systems, APIs, integrations, or DevSecOps-enabled initiatives
  • AWS or related cloud certification and familiarity with enterprise Java application environments
  • Experience managing API-enabled integration layers, data exchange patterns, canonical data models, identity and access integration, or interface-control processes
  • Experience leading multi-vendor delivery within a shared enterprise architecture and managing contractual deliverables, service levels, subcontractor dependencies, and vendor remediation plans
  • Experience with organizational change management, user-centered design, training, communications, adoption, and transition-to-operations activities
  • Experience applying quantitative delivery metrics, earned value or comparable performance-management techniques, root-cause analysis, and lessons learned to improve predictability and outcomes

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