Technical Project Program Manager

Spectraforce; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce is seeking a Sr Technical Project/Program Manager to lead digital technology initiatives for a 12-month engagement. You will orchestrate integrated plans, roadmaps, and release timelines while coordinating across Agile teams, engineering, product, and vendors to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

Strong risk, budget, and stakeholder management are essential for success. You will drive governance, enable cross-functional execution, and translate technical delivery updates for

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years in a related field; in lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of digital technology initiatives with integrated project plans and roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross-functional Agile teams, engineering, product, stakeholders, vendors and programs.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions with timely escalation.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, and resource impacts; ensure governance and quality.
• Serve as main communications contact for status, risks and stakeholder engagement.
• Support Agile practices, PI planning, sprint/release coordination, and dependency management.
• Coordinate release readiness, change management, and production transition.

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

7+ years of experience in related field

Job description

Role: Sr Technical Project/Program Manager

Duration: 12 months

Job Description:

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of digital technology initiatives by developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, roadmaps, and release timelines.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts across Agile teams, engineering, product, business stakeholders, vendors, and enterprise programs to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Maintain sufficient technical and product knowledge to anticipate delivery risks, support tradeoff discussions, and help resolve technical blockers and dependencies.
• Identify, assess, track, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions, ensuring timely escalation and resolution when needed.
• Ensure alignment with organizational governance standards, delivery methodologies, compliance requirements, and quality expectations.
• Manage project resources, capacity planning, team allocations, and delivery constraints while supporting accurate forecasting and execution planning.
• Track and oversee project budgets, financial forecasts, vendor commitments, and resource impacts, providing visibility into factors affecting scope, timeline, and business outcomes.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with business leaders, product teams, technology partners, architects, vendors, and other key stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for project communications, status reporting, risk management, escalations, and stakeholder engagement.
• Translate complex technical delivery information into clear, actionable updates for business partners and executive leadership.
• Support Agile delivery practices through PI planning, sprint and release coordination, dependency management, and cross-team execution oversight.
• Coordinate release readiness activities, approvals, implementation planning, change management, and transition to production support.
• Monitor delivery performance, quality, scope, schedule adherence, and issue trends to promote predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Contribute to program-level initiatives and continuous improvement efforts by enhancing delivery practices, governance processes, dependency management, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 5+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.

Bonus Points

• Significant experience leading complex technology projects, technical programs, or enterprise delivery initiatives from planning through execution and implementation.
• Advanced expertise in project management disciplines, including risk management, resource planning, budget management, stakeholder engagement, decision-making, and crossfunctional

team leadership.

• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, SDLC, technical dependency management, release planning, governance frameworks, and enterprise delivery practices.
• Proven ability to collaborate and influence across business, product, technology, architecture, finance, vendor, and executive leadership teams while effectively communicating project

status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.

• Experience supporting Agile execution, vendor management, business readiness, change management, and release coordination; PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related project management certification preferred.

Must have skills:

• Digital delivery applications, actively manage risk independencies, stakeholder management

Typical day/Duties:

• Working on enterprise strategic initiatives, working with the delivery teams, maintaining the risk log, following up on open action items, creating and managing a project plan, producing reports, creating release plans. Create business readiness resource. Looking forward to see what can be done to improve the process.

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.