Technical Lead

About the Role

The Technical Lead supports program management and project management projects for the CISA/OCIO Enterprise Engineering and Operations Support Services (EEOSS) task order. This role involves overall reporting to the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), management and reporting of progress and activities in all task areas, coordinating and reporting on Contractor work on projects as directed by the Government project managers and leads, conducting the Kick-Off Meeting, and performing transition in/out activities. The position works with an enterprise network architecture, engineering, and implementation team supporting our Federal customer to establish enterprise IT capabilities that support CISA's ability to continue establishing a modern IT infrastructure; engaging in various initiatives to evaluate and implement emerging technologies; migrating to the cloud; supporting mobility and collaboration platforms; and continually improving the performance, security, and availability of enterprise IT services.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end program leadership from planning to business readiness/rollout
• Coordinate and create work packages and schedule work
• Lead and guide initiative management/enterprise solution engineer teams to deploy dependent projects
• Define and track business and development milestones on a program level
• Track and communicate dependencies on a program level
• Manage risks, issues, change control and decision logs for the program
• Communicate and manage project status to internal project teams and to those in the executive level
• Identify strategic milestones in concert with business and/or mission stakeholders and tie work packages to milestones
• Work with development teams to ensure understanding of high level business requirements so that they are well positioned to deliver the appropriate business value
• Prepare weekly status reporting, quad charts, and monthly program management status content

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of experience in a related field, or 8 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Prior experience managing field teams in complex technical environments
• Confidence in driving people to deliver objectives
• Experience in enterprise environments
• Must be eligible to obtain a Department of Homeland Security EOD clearance (Requirements: US Citizenship, Favorable Background Investigation)

Desired Qualifications

• Previous experience in classified environments
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to pursue and resolve issues independently
• Ability to prioritize and assess impacts of issues to other resources
• Problem solver with sound judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail and follow-through
• Excellent collaboration skills; high-energy attitude
• Familiarity with software development practices and various methodologies (Scaled Agile Framework preferred: SAFe, and Waterfall experience is beneficial as well)
• Familiarity with project management across varied stakeholders and team members
• Demonstrated proficiency in tracking risks/issues and change and decision logs and maintaining meeting minutes
• Ability to communicate multi-directional (peer to peer, to varying levels of leadership) for project status and issues
• Certification: PMP

Clearance Preference

• DHS EOD - 1st priority
• Any DHS badge + DoD Top Secret or Secret - 2nd choice
• DoD Secret or Top Secret + willingness to get EOD clearance - 3rd choice (it can take 45 days to obtain EOD clearance – work can only begin once the clearance is fully adjudicated)