Technical Product Manager

T-Rex Solutions, LLC is seeking a qualified Technical Product Manager to provide technical leadership, product strategy, and delivery management in partnership with Defense Health Agency (DHA) stakeholders. This role drives value definition, roadmap development, and end-to-end delivery of enterprise data governance and metadata capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall program and technical leadership. Serve as the primary coordination point for issue resolution, escalations, and expectation management across time zones and partner organizations
• Responsible for oversight of all risk mitigation
• Define product vision and value propositions through virtual workshops, remote interviews, digital whiteboards, and collaborative online planning tools
• Prioritize features and requirements across multiple data governance and metadata initiatives while maintaining clear communication in an asynchronous delivery environment
• Translate DHA, DOW, and federal compliance requirements into technical product specifications accessible to distributed teams
• Lead structured engagement sessions with DHA domain owners, data stewards, SMEs, and leadership, using remote facilitation practices to ensure clarity, participation, and decision-making
• Maintain strong communication rhythms through virtual standups, sprint reviews, remote PI planning, and asynchronous updates
• Oversee distributed engineering, architecture, and analytics teams delivering capabilities such as:
• Metadata frameworks
• Automated metadata extraction
• Data lifecycle processes
• Repository and catalog features
• Governance and lineage models
• Lead scenario-based evaluations and virtual proof of concepts, coordinating demos with vendors and stakeholders
• Ensure teams adhere to federal security, NIST SP 80053, HIPAA, DOW policies, and DHA cybersecurity expectations
• Coordinate secure handling of sensitive data (PHI, PII) using DHA approved tools and controlled-access environments
• Enable development and documentation of metadata models, crosswalks, catalog structures, and repository taxonomies
• Facilitate change control cycles, retrospectives, and iterative improvement conversations
• Lead training sessions, onboarding, and handover activities using DHA approved collaboration platforms

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in technical product management or data focused solution delivery
• Proven success managing products in distributed team environments
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, cataloging platforms, and repository design
• Experience in federal or regulated environments with familiarity in FISMA, NIST SP 80053, HIPAA, and DoD data policies
• Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, visual, and asynchronous
• Experience with Agile or iterative development using remote collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro, Teams, Zoom)
• U.S. Citizenship required; eligibility for security clearance; active DoD security clearance preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Management, or related field
• Skilled in organizing distributed teams, managing competing priorities, and maintaining momentum in remote settings
• Experience with metadata modeling, crosswalk analysis, catalog federation, and data lifecycle management
• Comfort using virtual diagramming and collaboration tools (Visio, Miro, Lucid, or DHA approved equivalents)
• Data analytics or governance certifications (CDMP, PL300/DA100, etc.)
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) beneficial but not required
• Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe, Agile PM)