Principal Technical Project Manager

Familiarity with biometric examiner workflows and business processes, including basic knowledge of leading biometric COTS solutions such as IDEMIA and Rank One, is preferred.

Highlights:

• The Technical Project Manager (TPM) supports the Agile Release Train Program Manager (ART PM) and Technical Lead (TL) in developing Epics, Features and application roadmaps for the design and development of new and existing applications.
• We're seeking a Technical Project Manager to help customers achieve their mission outcomes and help to drive innovation throughout the engagement life cycle through iterative feedback mechanisms.
• We're looking for a strategic thinker who can demonstrate understanding of requirements, foresee risks, make decisions guided by policies, procedures and a business plan with limited guidance and collaborate across roles to understand a customer's mission objectives and define project goals.
• The TPM also performs risk management identification and mitigation, and development of implementation timelines based on a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment.
• Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma, and other optimization methodologies would be majorly beneficial in this role.

Typical Day:

This role has direct leadership and interaction with one or more software development teams and performs as a key customer liaison with basic technical knowledge about complex system and application development. You will work with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned through the implementation lifecycle. The TPM is responsible for technical planning, coordination between Agile teams and mission customers; it also includes coordination of verification, validation, and deployments.

Tasks:

• Successfully execute project plans, remain sensitive to customer needs, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate and capture and validate requirements, developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, defining success criteria and project milestones, and budgets while identifying and mitigating limitations to execution.
• Communicate large and complicated concepts to customers and technical teammates easily.
• Is able to adjust communication style to context.
• Ability to apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations.
• Use agile delivery methodology to lead project teams consisting of business and technical resources while managing scope, schedule, and cost to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals.
• Track the team's work to the completion of all deliverables accepted into a PI.
• Coordinate with team members and customer sets to ensure stories have all the information needed to complete the work and that all necessary stories are created.
• The TPM will coordinate/socialize production changes and brief appropriate boards for deployment approval.

Required Qualifications:

To be considered, must have an active TS/SCI with at least a CI-poly.

• Education: Bachelor's Degree with 12 or more years of experience and will consider work experience in lieu of a degree.
• In-depth knowledge of common Agile practices, service-orientated environments, development practice, in-depth experience as a technical expert across multiple project assignments while supervising others.
• Exposure to web and mobile app development teams and able to apply a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks that are high impact assignments.
• Experience operating in SAFe and Agile frameworks with experience planning and leading major technology assignments.
• Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology
• Previous hands-on software development or infrastructure experience
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Experience with biometrics examiner workflows and business processes
• Basic knowledge of major biometric COTS solutions (e.g. IDEMIA, Rank One)

Position Type Shift Information:

• Mon-Fri, 40 hr work week

Citizenship & Clearance: US Citizenship and TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) Required

Location: Onsite- Bethesda, MD

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.