Technical Lead - TRP

PlanIT Group; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanIT Group is seeking an experienced Technical Lead for a remote/onsite role to drive delivery for a U.S. government client.

The candidate will act as the accountable technical delivery lead across an application team, translating priorities into executable plans and coordinating engineering, architecture, security, and operations with vendor resources. The role emphasizes leading through influence, strong executive communication, and collaboration with government leadership to ensure timely

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology delivery roles.
• Ability to lead through influence without direct supervision.
• Experience with AI/ML concepts and governance.
• Strong delivery discipline and risk/issue management.
• Experience with work management/ITSM tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide end‑to‑end delivery leadership for an assigned application team by coordinating work across US Government Client and vendor resources without direct supervisory authority.
• Translate business objectives into delivery execution: drive scope clarity, sequencing, milestones, and deliverable commitments in partnership with US Government Client leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead cross‑functional planning and dependency management across teams (integrations, environments, security/network reviews, release coordination, vendor/supplier timelines).
• Provide consistent status reporting to US Government Client leadership, including progress, risks/issues, decisions needed, dependencies, and mitigation plans; ensure actions are tracked to closure.
• Coordinate priorities and capacity: ensure there is a steady pipeline of
• ready” work, align work assignments with technical leads, and maintain delivery flow so team capacity is effectively utilized.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Cross-functional coordination

SDLC & DevSecOps

AI/ML governance

Executive communication

Jira/Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

VersionOne/Jira/Azure DevOps

ServiceNow

Job description

Reston, VA Contract On-Site Flexibility/Remote: 100%

Technical Lead - TRP (Remote)

JOB SUMMARY

The Technical Program / Delivery Leader (TPL) is the accountable technical delivery lead for a designated application team. The TPL combines senior-level business systems analysis with hands‑on delivery coordination to translate priorities into executable plans and ensure engineering, architecture, environment, security, and operational activities are aligned to deliver high‑quality outcomes. The TPL works closely with US Government Client leadership to provide transparent status, drive decisions and approvals, coordinate priorities, and ensure required software/hardware/tooling needs are defined early so they can be procured through US Government Client channels. This role leads through influence, not direct people management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide end‑to‑end delivery leadership for an assigned application team by coordinating work across US Government Client and vendor resources (BSA(s), engineers, architects, environment leads, and other support functions) without direct supervisory authority.
• Translate business objectives into delivery execution: drive scope clarity, sequencing, milestones, and deliverable commitments in partnership with US Government Client leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead cross‑functional planning and dependency management across teams (integrations, environments, security/network reviews, release coordination, vendor/supplier timelines).
• Provide consistent status reporting to US Government Client leadership, including progress, risks/issues, decisions needed, dependencies, and mitigation plans; ensure actions are tracked to closure.
• Coordinate priorities and capacity: ensure there is a steady pipeline of "ready” work, align work assignments with technical leads, and maintain delivery flow so team capacity is effectively utilized.
• Support ROM estimates and planning by coordinating inputs from engineering/architecture; document assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
• Partner with US Government Client leadership to support funding/approval activities by providing required delivery inputs (scope, sequencing, timeline, risks, resource assumptions).
• Coordinate release/deployment readiness: environment readiness, change approvals, cutover planning, validation steps, communications, and post‑release stabilization.
• Support production operations and critical incidents by coordinating participation, facilitating communications, documenting impact/timeline, and ensuring corrective actions are prioritized and completed.
• Identify required software, hardware, tooling, and supplier services; define technical requirements and timelines so US Government Client leadership can procure and represent US Government Client for postal business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery execution, documentation, quality, automation, and operational readiness.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 10+ years in technology delivery roles (e.g., Technical Delivery Lead, Technical Project Lead, Technical Program Coordinator/Lead, or similar).
• Proven ability to lead through influence and coordinate cross‑functional work across engineering, architecture, infrastructure/environments, security, and operations.
• Strong requirements‑to‑delivery capability: translating complex needs into epics/features/stories and into executable plans with measurable outcomes.
• Practical understanding of AI/ML concepts and governance, with experience using approved AI‑enabled tools/approaches to improve requirements, analysis, estimation, reporting, defect/incident triage, and overall delivery execution.
• Strong delivery discipline: planning, scope control, dependency management, risk/issue management, and proactive escalation.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams through change (without direct authority), adopt/improve delivery methodologies (Agile/DevSecOps), and drive measurable improvements using delivery/operational metrics.
• Technical fluency across SDLC and modern delivery practices (APIs/integrations, environments, DevSecOps concepts, logging/monitoring, and incident response); not required to code, but must engage effectively with technical teams.
• Strong executive communication: ability to present status, tradeoffs, and recommendations and drive timely decisions.
• Experience with work management and ITSM tools (e.g., VersionOne/Jira/Azure DevOps; ServiceNow or equivalent) and producing delivery artifacts (status, RAID logs, milestones, ROMs).

Preferred

• Scrum certification (e.g., CSM, PSM) and/or scaled Agile experience (e.g., SAFe).
• Experience supporting production releases and incident response in high‑availability environments.
• Experience incorporating security, privacy, and performance requirements into delivery artifacts.
• Experience measuring and reducing costs (cloud consumption, tooling/supplier spend, operational effort) by identifying cost drivers, optimizing services, and automating repeatable work while maintaining service levels.

Additional Required Skills/Experience

• Over Ten (10) years' of relevant experience.
• A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field then four additional years of related experience is required.
• Typically performs all functional duties independently.
• Note: Special credentials (licenses and/or certifications) may be required at the Task Order level on a case‑specific basis.