Clearance: Public Trust Background Investigation
Huntsville, AL – National Center for Explosives, Training, and Research (NCETR)
Technical Project Manager — Government Program
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of a federal Agile or DevSecOps modernization program supporting government stakeholders, technical teams, and contract leadership.
- Develop, maintain, and manage the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and release planning.
- Establish and enforce sprint governance across Agile teams, including sprint planning, backlog readiness, demos, retrospectives, and dependency tracking.
- Maintain the program risk register, track mitigation actions, elevate issues, and communicate impacts to schedule, scope, and performance.
- Prepare and deliver recurring COR/GTM status reporting, including progress, risks, milestones, impediments, staffing, and deliverable status.
- Monitor and manage team velocity, sprint burn rates, throughput, and capacity to support realistic forecasting and release planning.
- Coordinate with product owners, architects, developers, testers, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to align execution with program priorities.
- Support government meetings, action item tracking, decision logs, and follow-up closure across technical and program management forums.
- Ensure program execution aligns with contract requirements, deliverables, quality standards, and federal reporting expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, governance, metrics, and DevSecOps execution.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in project or program management supporting federal government IT programs.
- Demonstrated experience managing federal Agile or DevSecOps programs with multiple workstreams and cross‑functional technical teams.
- Hands‑on experience developing and managing an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Experience leading sprint governance, including Agile ceremonies, dependency management, sprint reporting, and release tracking.
- Experience maintaining a risk register and managing issue, risk, and mitigation reporting for government stakeholders.
- Experience preparing and presenting COR/GTM reports, executive status briefings, and program performance updates.
- Experience with velocity management, Agile metrics, forecasting, and delivery performance monitoring.
- Strong knowledge of federal program controls, technical delivery oversight, and stakeholder coordination.
- Proficiency with Agile and program management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Confluence, or similar.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience supporting government‑facing meetings and reporting.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification required.
- CSM or PSM certification required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines, release management, and secure software delivery in a federal environment.
- Experience supporting COR, GTM, PMO, or executive‑level reporting for DOJ, DoD, DHS, or other civilian agencies.
- Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and delivery frameworks in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.