Principal Technical Project Manager (TPM)

Leidos; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

11 paid holidays

401k vesting

Flexible schedules

Stock purchase plan

Technical upskilling

Education support

Parental leave

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead biometrics modernization, coordinating across software teams and serving as a key customer liaison with strong knowledge of complex system development.

Ideal candidates will guide Epic/Feature roadmaps, apply SAFe DevSecOps, and partner with product managers to prioritize requirements while mitigating risk and enabling timely deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years experience; work experience may substitute for degree
• Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
• Experience with SAFe and Agile frameworks across major tech assignments
• Experience interacting with government customers and biometric technologies

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic project goals, governance, milestones, and budgets while aligning with customer mission objectives.
• Coordinate agile teams and customer communications; manage scope, schedule, and cost.
• Develop requirements and advise prioritization with product managers; drive risk management.
• Lead coordination of verification, validation, and deployments within a SAFe DevSecOps environment.

Skills

Agile / SAFe practices

Biometric technologies

Government customer liaison

Requirements management

Leadership

Risk management

Clearance TS/SCI with Poly

Education

Bachelor's degree (12+ years experience)

Job description

Description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Technical Project Manager (TPM) in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. Our talented team is at the forefront in large scale data analytics, artificial intelligence integration, and biometrics.

At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, Immediate Vesting in our 401K, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security!

Job Summary

This role has direct leadership of our biometrics modernization efforts 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. The 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. The TPM leads all aspects of a product’s design working with product managers to develop requirements and advise on prioritization. The TPM also performs risk management identification and mitigation, and development of implementation timelines based on a tailored SAFe Agile DevSecOps environment. This role works with internal systems engineers to ensure customer priorities are planned through the implementation lifecycle. Experience with requirements management, portfolio management, Lean Six Sigma, and other optimization methodologies. This role is responsible for technical planning, coordination between Agile teams and mission customers; it also includes coordination of verification, validation, and deployments.

Responsibilities Include

• 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.
• Successfully execute project plans, remain sensitive to customer needs, resolve issues, escalate 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.
• Communicates 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.
• A strategic business partner to help customers achieve their mission outcomes and help to drive innovation throughout the engagement life cycle through iterative feedback mechanisms.
• 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.
• Tracks the team's work to the completion of all deliverables accepted into a PI.
• Coordinates with team members and customer sets to ensure stories have all the information needed to complete the work and that all necessary stories are created.
• The TPM will coordinate / socialize production changes and brief appropriate boards for deployment approval.

Basic Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of common Agile practices, service-orientated environments, development practice, in-depth experience as a technical expert across multiple project assignments while supervising others.
• Understanding of biometric technologies to include a working knowledge of multiple modalities (e.g., fingerprint, iris, face).
• Experience working directly with government customers to drive requirements and coordinate status reporting.
• Exposure to web development teams and able to apply a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks that are high impact assignments.
• Experience operating in SAFe and Agile frameworks with experience planning and leading major technology assignments.
• Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Bachelor's Degree with 12 or more years of experience and will consider work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Clearance Required: Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology
• Previous hands-on software development or infrastructure experience
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Experience with biometrics examiner workflows and business processes
• Basic knowledge of major biometric COTS solutions (e.g. IDEMIA, Rank One)

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We look forward to learning more about you –

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If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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