Technical Project Manager

ECS is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead complex technical delivery initiatives and build trusted customer relationships. The role owns full-lifecycle delivery across application development, data and AI, cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, and operations while translating mission needs into executable plans, removing blockers, and delivering measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead full-lifecycle technical delivery from discovery and design through build, release, and operational transition
• Translate business, customer, and mission objectives into roadmaps, integrated plans, prioritized backlogs, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes
• Partner with technical leaders to understand architecture, dependencies, and tradeoffs; drive decisions that balance speed, quality, security, and reliability
• Build and redirect cross-functional teams quickly by clarifying roles, priorities, operating cadences, ownership, and accountability
• Own scope, schedule, resources, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change control; escalate early with data-driven options and recommendations
• Remove blockers, resolve ambiguity and conflict, and build consensus across customers, users, executives, and delivery teams
• Maintain delivery visibility through Jira and Confluence, dashboards, KPIs, and forecasts; communicate decisions, status, risks, and outcomes to technical and executive audiences
• Engage customers and users through discovery, demonstrations, feedback loops, release readiness, adoption, and value realization
• Raise the delivery bar by coaching teams, developing people, running retrospectives, standardizing reusable practices, and improving predictability, quality, and customer value

Requirements:

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• 10+ years of technical project or program management experience delivering complex IT and software initiatives across the full lifecycle
• Track record leading concurrent workstreams and highly technical teams spanning engineering, architecture, product, security, data, and operations
• Technical fluency across the software development lifecycle, systems integration and APIs, cloud platforms, data and AI, cybersecurity, DevOps or SRE, and production operations
• Command of Agile, Lean, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery, including estimation, release planning, change control, and operational readiness
• Proven consulting success as a trusted advisor to customers, users, and C-level leaders, with the ability to translate between technical and business audiences
• Advanced risk, dependency, resource, and stakeholder management, including anticipating obstacles and establishing mitigation and contingency plans
• Excellent communication, executive presence, and judgment, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear decisions and actions
• Highly organized and data-driven, with practical experience using Jira, Confluence, source control, CI/CD, ticketing, dashboards, and reporting
• People-centered leadership that develops talent, creates accountability, earns trust, and makes people want to work with you