Technical Project Manager (Onsite)

Job Title: Technical Project Manager (Onsite)

Location: Washington DC

Duration: 03 Months with possible extension

Job Description:

The Technical Project Manager leads complex engineering driven IT initiatives across infrastructure cloud networking applications and data platforms. This role oversees the full project lifecycle from initiation through deployment and closure ensuring all technical deliverables are aligned with architecture standards security requirements and business objectives. The Technical Project Manager acts as a technical facilitator and execution leader coordinating engineers architects operations teams cybersecurity vendors and business stakeholders to deliver secure scalable and reliable technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Project Planning & Execution

• Define technical project scope engineering requirements and success criteria in coordination with solution architects engineering teams cybersecurity and business partners.
• Develop comprehensive engineering aligned project plans including system requirements deployment approaches cut over strategies and integration milestones.
• Lead technical design discussions and ensure requirements are translated into actionable engineering tasks.
• Coordinate and oversee infrastructure upgrades application migrations data platform modernizations cloud transitions and network related initiatives.
• Manage cross system dependencies involving applications data flows network segments middleware and security controls.
• Ensure all technical work adheres to SDLC Agile SAFe DevOps and ITIL frameworks.

Service Migrations Deployment & Cutover Management

• Lead end to end execution of service migrations including application cutovers infrastructure transitions network changes and data migrations.
• Develop and manage detailed runbooks deployment plans backout procedures and operational readiness steps.
• Facilitate go live events command center operations and post deployment stabilization to ensure continuity of business operations.
• Resolve technical blockers by collaborating directly with engineers architects vendors and operations teams.

Engineering Team Coordination & Agile Leadership

• Coordinate cross-functional work across engineering operations data management information security and business units.
• Serve as Scrum Master or Agile facilitator when required ensuring teams maintain backlogs artifacts and sprint goals.
• Promote engineering best practices and process improvements based on retrospectives and lessons learned.
• Serve as an escalation point to unblock technical teams and facilitate alignment across project dependencies.

Resource & Budget Management

• Identify and estimate technical resources engineering labor tools and vendor services required to deliver project outcomes.
• Track expenditures manage project budgets and ensure efficient allocation of personnel hardware software and licensing resources.
• Support procurement efforts (SOWs contracts RFP collaboration).

Risk Management Security & Compliance

• Identify technical and operational risks manage RAID logs and develop mitigation or remediation plans.
• Ensure all work complies with cybersecurity policies change control processes and federal/state requirements.
• Collaborate with security privacy and compliance teams on design reviews security assessments and audit preparations.

Monitoring Reporting & Technical Governance

• Track KPIs engineering milestones system performance metrics and deployment readiness indicators.
• Provide leadership with dashboards executive updates and engineering focused progress reports.
• Support architectural governance by ensuring technical alignment with standards patterns and approved technologies.

Technical Quality Assurance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Validate that engineering deliverables meet required performance scalability continuity and security standards.
• Conduct operational readiness reviews test results evaluations and quality gates.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders providing clear communication of technical status risks and outcomes.

Documentation & Project Closure

• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation including architecture diagrams system configurations runbooks deployment plans and post implementation reports.
• Conduct post project evaluations lessons learned and retrospectives to support continuous improvement.
• Ensure formal handoff to operations support teams and service owners.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems or a closely related technical field.

Experience

• 7 years managing technical projects involving IT infrastructure cloud networking enterprise applications data platforms or systems engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex service migrations cutovers integrations and modernization initiatives.
• Proven success coordinating work across engineering security operations vendors and business teams in matrixed environments.
• Strong experience with Agile (Scrum/SAFe) SDLC DevOps workflows and ITIL processes.

Technical Skills

• Networking: TCP/IP routing/switching firewalls DNS LAN/WAN SD-WAN proxies NAT.
• Systems: Linux/Unix administration clustering virtualization servers storage DBA experience.
• Cloud: AWS foundational knowledge (Azure or hybrid experience a plus).
• Data Engineering & Analytics: Data pipelines BI tools ETL data quality processes.
• Programming & Automation: Java shell scripting PL/SQL API integrations.
• Tools: Jira Confluence Smartsheet Azure DevOps ServiceNow MS Project Visio M365.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring observability tools security tools and CI/CD environments.

Certifications (Preferred)

• PMP
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe ScrumMaster
• PMI ACP
• ITIL Foundations
• Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure)

Core Competencies

• Technical leadership and engineering literacy
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business stakeholders
• Vendor and contract management
• Excellent communication and cross functional collaboration
• Ability to drive clarity and execution in ambiguous technical environments
• Process improvement and continuous improvement mindset

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