Key skills
AgileScrumLeadershipProject ManagementChange ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that delivers trusted solutions and technologies to protect the nation and allies. They are seeking a Manager of Technical Project Engineers to lead a team responsible for delivering high-visibility, mission-critical projects, overseeing the execution of technical projects from requirements gathering through implementation and testing.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for a team of Technical Project Engineers and Business Systems Analysts supporting multiple concurrent projects
- Ensure adherence to company policies, PMO standards, and contract requirements while maintaining high levels of quality and accountability
- Oversee the planning and execution of IT projects and change requests, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, stakeholder expectations, and technical standards
- Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues, risks, and decision-making across the project portfolio
- Provide guidance in developing detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and reporting deliverables
- Coach team members on gathering functional and technical requirements using standard project management and business analysis methodologies
- Review and approve key project deliverables, including requirements documentation, design artifacts, implementation plans, and testing strategies
- Monitor project performance metrics and ensure timely, accurate communication of progress, risks, and dependencies to senior leadership
- Oversee adherence to established change management practices and support engineers in managing change requests and defect resolution through the Change Control Board process
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with end users, technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership
- Promote continuous improvement in project management, engineering processes, and team operations
Requirements:
- US Citizenship
- Must hold active federal background investigation with a T5 adjudication or Top Secret eligible clearance
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Proficiency in Microsoft Teams Environment
- Experience with Visio
- Experience with process flow mapping
- Experience working within and the analysis of federal investigative standards and operational workflows
- Strong understanding of systems engineering, project lifecycle management, and requirements analysis
- Proven ability to lead project teams handling multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Experience with PMO processes, change management, risk analysis, and project tracking
- Ability to work effectively across distributed teams in a remote environment
- Commitment to fostering teamwork, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement
- PMP Certification
- Scrum Master Certification
- Understanding of agile methodology
- Understanding of software development lifecycles