Principal Technical Project Manager

Ideal Innovations Incorporated; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideal Innovations Incorporated in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Technical Project Manager to support SAFe Agile initiatives and coordinate Epics, Features, and roadmaps with program managers and technical leads.

You will drive risk management, timelines, and governance across multiple software teams, ensuring customer priorities are addressed through iterative delivery and collaboration across roles to achieve mission objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Execute project plans, manage governance, schedules, budgets and milestones.
• Communicate complex concepts to customers and teammates.
• Adjust communication style to context and audience.
• Apply judgement to challenge and redirect teams and manage client expectations.
• Lead agile delivery with cross-functional teams, manage scope, schedule, and cost.
• Track team work to completion of PI deliverables.
• Coordinate with teams and customers to ensure alignment.

Skills

Agile

Requirements management

Risk management

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Description

Highlights:

• The Technical Project Manager (TPM) supports the Agile Release Train Program Manager (ART PM) and Technical Lead (TL) in developing Epics, Features and application roadmaps for the design and development of new and existing applications.
• We're seeking a Technical Project Manager to help customers achieve their mission outcomes and help to drive innovation throughout the engagement life cycle through iterative feedback mechanisms.
• We're looking for a strategic thinker who can demonstrate understanding of requirements, foresee risks, make decisions guided by policies, procedures and a business plan with limited guidance and collaborate across roles to understand a customer's mission objectives and define project goals.
• The TPM also performs risk management identification and mitigation, and development of implementation timelines based on a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment.
• Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma, and other optimization methodologies would be majorly beneficial in this role.

Typical Day:

This role has direct leadership and interaction with one or more software development teams and performs as a key customer liaison with basic technical knowledge about complex system and application development. You will work with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned through the implementation lifecycle. The TPM is responsible for technical planning, coordination between Agile teams and mission customers; it also includes coordination of verification, validation, and deployments.

Tasks:

• Successfully execute project plans, remain sensitive to customer needs, resolve issues, escalat[e] when appropriate and capture and validate requirements, developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, defining success criteria and project milestones, and budgets while identifying and mitigating limitations to execution.
• Communicate large and complicated concepts to customers and technical teammates easily.
• Is able to adjust communication style to context.
• Ability to apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations.
• Use agile delivery methodology to lead project teams consisting of business and technical resources while managing scope, schedule, and cost to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals.
• Track the team's work to the completion of all deliverables accepted into a PI.
• Coordinate with team members and customer sets to ensure