Technical Project Manager

MANTECH; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH, located near Fort Meade, MD, seeks a Technical Project Manager to lead complex programs for defense and government clients. You will work with systems engineers, network engineers, and software developers to manage requirements, priorities, and project execution end-to-end.

The role emphasizes clear communication with senior leaders, rigorous documentation, and effective change control using Jira, Confluence, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with multiple years of project management and technical leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage requirements and coordinate exchanges to validate needs and plans.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, Software Developers to action requests and oversee completion.
• Set priorities with customer management and PMO leads, aligning team work and expectations.
• Update and track requirements, tasks, and project status in JIRA and other tools.
• Develop system requirements, analyze designs, and conduct feasibility studies.
• Create technical documentation and ensure accuracy and relevance.

Job description

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Technical Project Manager to join our team located in the Ft. Meade, MD area.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Manage requirements, including coordinating and facilitating exchange meetings or forums to determine/validate requirements and ensuring tasks are performed according to agreed-upon plans.
• Collaborating with Systems Engineers, System Administrators, Network Engineers and Software Developers to evaluate internal and external customer requests, determine possible courses of action (CoAs), create and assign project tasks and oversee the successful completion of the project.
• Working with customer management and Mantech PMO/TTO leads to determine priorities and structuring the team’s work to align appropriately with those priorities, while effectively managing expectations at all levels.
• Updating, maintaining, and tracking all requirements, tasking and project status updates in JIRA, and through other methods as directed.
• Analyzing user needs, concept of operations, and architectures to develop system requirements and analyze requirements, evaluating alternative designs, and conducting feasibility studies.
• Working with staff to develop technical documentation and reviewing technical documents (SOPs, Test Plans/Reports, User Guides, Project Plans) to ensure accuracy, usability and current relevancy.
• Preparing and presenting status reports, deliverables, and briefings as required and organizing and maintaining documentation so it is easily interpreted by all required parties as well as collaborating with teammates, other service providers, vendors, and users to build relationships and achieve objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 years of experience as a Project Manager or other technical leadership role with 10 additional years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Hardware engineer or Software engineer.
• Experience conveying technical concepts to various audiences and to communicate effectively with senior managers, colleagues, and others.
• Experience with complex customer situations and interact with all levels of personnel to provide quick and effective resolutions.
• Experience successfully managing disparately located personnel, tasks, and projects coupled with proven ability to build and maintain constructive relationships among customers, stakeholders, technical teams, and contractors across the customer base.
• Experience with System Accreditation processes and requirements (RMF, STE/STN, RtB)
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Active PMP® Certification or equivalent project management or Scrum Master certification.
• Experience with Agile project management, including experience with Agile development-related project management applications such as Jira, Confluence and/or ServiceNow.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and engineering.
• Proficiency in Bash/Python scripting and infrastructure automation using Ansible or SaltStack.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability tools (nxLog, Grafana).
• Experience orchestrating enterprise virtualization (VMware vSphere) or Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).
• Experience with NiFi for data flow and log aggregation
• Experience with Cloud Computing, Storage and Infrastructure, including AWS hosted Infrastructure
• Familiarity with structured data such as JSON/YAML/XML

Clearance Requirements

Must have a current/active TS/SCI w/ Poly

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as, the copy machine/fax machine/computer/printer.