Technical Project Manager

Everforth ECS is seeking a Technical Project Manager to work in our Arlington, VA office. 

 

Job Description: 

ECS is seeking a talented, diligent, collaborative, and energetic Technical Project Manager to support the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Data Services Program. The CDM Data Services Program provides cybersecurity tools, integration services, and dashboards for participating agencies to help them improve their security posture. CDM is a large, CISA-managed program that increases visibility and insight into federal Agencies’ cybersecurity posture by collecting, aggregating, displaying, and reporting data from tools and sensors deployed on agencies’ networks, which then feed into a Federal Dashboard.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Project planning, schedule management, resource management, quality control, risk and opportunity management 

• Coordinate the work of solution architects and other technical team members 

• Provide leadership, oversight, collaboration, and accountability for data quality functions above, including but not limited to scope, schedule, agency & cross-team coordination and quality control of information shared internally and externally. 

• Ensure robust documentation of project purpose, services, and responsibilities through a "charter" like document 

• Ensure delivery of robust documentation of clear, streamlined, efficient, and automated (to the greatest extent possible) processes and procedures 

• Positively and effectively collaborate and communicate with customers, stakeholders, leadership, peers, and team members across the program to ensure high quality and timely delivery 

• Model and exhibit ideal leadership behaviors, including flexibility to achieve vision and mission, which includes collaborating across teams to define and achieve long term and short objectives  

• Closely collaborate, help guide, support, provide background knowledge with / for any delivery managers (e.g. project managers, account managers, engagement, indirect customer engagement efforts) and provide technical resource(s) to support such engagements. 

• Support (e.g. provide technical support or delegate) and where necessary lead reoccurring customer engagement efforts such as TEM/TAMs, Agency meetings, etc..  

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to acquire DHS Suitability 
• 5+ years of systems engineering leadership experience including solid functional knowledge, including but not limited to full life-cycle engineering across all domains including AWS Cloud services and integrations and Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack 
• Proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in past positions including demonstrating soft skills like being a team player, collaborative attitude, ability to learn & grow, and grace under fire 
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders    
• Experience planning and executing work in an Agile Environment 
• High level of demonstrated experience and understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Atlassian Jira and Confluence in particular Jira Advanced Roadmaps. 
• Able to work in a dynamic team environment, collaborate well with others, and take initiative to solve complete problems 
• Strong analytical, qualitative, and quantitative problem-solving skills  
• Deep understanding of Federal Government contracting 
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, and create opportunities  
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization, comfortably and effectively engaging with front-line teams and C-suite leaders 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including customer and employee engagement 
• Drives for results, contributing to account plans, and organize resources required to execute the plans and achieve desired outcomes 
• Experience in measuring progress against KPIs, successfully balancing the customer’s needs and value to ECS 
• Thought leader, leveraging their deep domain experience, customer relations, and industry trends to hone in on opportunities and focus intently on realizing them 
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills, paired with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders 
• Demonstrated leadership in team environment and excellent general management and  "project management" capabilities including: ability to lead evaluation of scope, staffing, risk, dependencies, communications, and quality 
• Demonstrated experience and success managing the development and operations of IT solutions in large and complex application environments, preferably for the Federal Government  
• Advanced cyber security knowledge and critical thinking skills