Technical Project Manager

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public Trust Clearance

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Technical Project Manager to translate strategy into predictable delivery and build high-performing teams. You will lead cross-functional initiatives spanning application development, data/AI, cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, and operations.

You will own delivery from discovery through operational transition, creating clarity, removing blockers, and delivering measurable outcomes with data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical project/program management experience across the full IT/software lifecycle.
• Experience leading concurrent workstreams and highly technical teams.
• Technical fluency across SDLC, cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity, DevOps or SRE.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-lifecycle technical delivery from discovery 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 balancing speed, quality, security, and reliability.
• Build and redirect cross-functional teams 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.
• Remove blockers, resolve ambiguity and conflict, and build consensus across customers, users, executives, delivery teams.
• Maintain delivery visibility through Jira/Confluence, dashboards, KPIs, and forecasts; communicate decisions, status, risks, and outcomes to tech/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 practices, and improving predictability, quality, and value.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Source control

CI/CD

Dashboards

Job description

Everforth ECS is looking for a Technical Project Manager (TPM) who is passionate about turning strategy into predictable technical delivery, building high-performing teams, and creating trusted customer relationships. Strong candidates combine delivery discipline with the technical depth to lead from the front and balance speed with engineering rigor. The Technical Project Manager (TPM) will lead cross-functional initiatives spanning application development, data and AI, cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, and operations. This role owns delivery from discovery through operational transition, translating customer and mission needs into executable plans, creating clarity and accountability, removing blockers, and delivering measurable outcomes.

Essential 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; escalating early with data-driven options and recommendations
• Remove blockers, resolve ambiguity and conflict, and building 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

Salary: $180,000 - $200,000

General Description of Benefits

• 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