Technical Project Manager

About the role

Technical Project Manager will lead end‑to‑end planning, execution, governance, and delivery of complex technical initiatives supporting the GrantSolutions contract, including application and platform modernization, system enhancements, new capabilities, integrations, cloud adoption, cybersecurity initiatives, and operational improvements. The role requires strong project leadership and familiarity with AWS cloud environments and Java‑based applications to engage technical teams, understand delivery dependencies and risks, and communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Travel required up to 10%. Clearance required; ability to obtain a Federal or DoD Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, deployment, transition to operations, and closeout with clear acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
• Define and maintain project charters, scope, objectives, work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, resource plans, budgets, delivery roadmaps, and governance cadence.
• Manage day‑to‑day execution across multiple agile teams, technical workstreams, vendors, and shared services; clarify roles, commitments, interfaces, and decision rights.
• Partner with Product Owners and technical leads to translate business and technical requirements into prioritized, achievable release plans while maintaining traceability.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, procurement, vendor commitments, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions using appropriate controls.
• Own project financial management, including budgets, forecasts, burn rates, variance analysis, Estimate at Completion, Estimate to Complete, and timely escalation of financial risks.
• Establish and administer integrated change control, assessing proposed changes for business value and impacts to architecture, scope, cost, schedule, security, operations, and contractual commitments.
• Coordinate architecture, application development, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, privacy, data, testing, configuration management, and operations stakeholders to meet delivery and governance requirements.
• Drive release and operational readiness, including environment and integration dependencies, test completion, defect disposition, data migration, deployment planning, rollback and contingency planning, training, communications, support readiness, and production handoff.
• Track technical dependencies across applications, cloud services, APIs, data exchanges, security components, environments, and shared platform capabilities.
• Coordinate delivery planning for AWS‑hosted environments and Java‑based applications, working with technical leads to understand architecture, security, integration, deployment, and operational considerations.
• Proactively manage implementation and transition risks, including workflow continuity, system‑of‑record decisions, overlapping capabilities, data synchronization, technical debt, testing scope, deployment sequencing, and operational impacts.
• Define and monitor delivery metrics and key performance indicators; use data to drive recovery plans and continuous improvement.
• Prepare executive dashboards, weekly and monthly status reports, decision briefs, and forecasts communicating progress, financial status, risks, dependencies, trade‑offs, and required decisions.
• Facilitate planning sessions, technical reviews, risk reviews, stakeholder forums, retrospectives, and decision meetings; document actions, owners, due dates, and outcomes.
• Manage vendor performance against plans, deliverables