Modernization Project Manager Jobs in Kentucky (NOW HIRING)

## Technical Project ManagerApplylocations: US - VA, McLeantime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 42484**Job Family:**IT Project Management**Travel Required:**Up to 10%**Clearance Required:**Ability to Obtain Public TrustThe Technical Project Manager will lead the end-to-end planning, execution, governance, and delivery of complex technical initiatives supporting the GrantSolutions contract. Efforts may include application and platform modernization, system enhancements, new capabilities, integrations, cloud adoption, cybersecurity initiatives, and operational improvements. The role requires strong project leadership and sufficient 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. The Technical Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional and multi-vendor teams; manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, risks, dependencies, and change; and partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, architects, engineering and operations leads, executive leadership, and Federal stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.**What You Will Do:**We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a diverse portfolio of technical efforts, including modernization initiatives, system and application enhancements, new capability delivery, platform improvements, integrations, and technology upgrades. This role will manage delivery from initiation through deployment and transition to operations, coordinating work across multiple workstreams, vendors, and agile teams while maintaining service continuity and alignment with business priorities.The Technical Project Manager will establish delivery baselines and governance, manage requirements and change, track performance and financials, facilitate technical and business decisions, and coordinate quality, security, release, operational readiness, and stakeholder adoption. This individual will support initiatives involving cloud-hosted applications, integrations, shared services, data exchanges, infrastructure, and emerging capabilities. Success requires sound judgment, technical curiosity, concise executive communication, and the ability to create accountability without displacing the responsibilities of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, architects, or Technical Leads.* 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 from objectives through delivered capabilities.* Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, procurement and 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, such as milestone performance, forecast accuracy, throughput, cycle time, quality trends, defect leakage, dependency aging, and risk exposure; use data to drive recovery plans and continuous improvement.* Prepare concise executive dashboards, weekly and monthly status reports, decision briefs, and forecasts that clearly communicate progress, financial status, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions required.* 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, service expectations, quality criteria, and contractual obligations, escalating gaps and coordinating remediation.* Maintain complete, audit-ready project records, including baselines, plans, RAID logs, decisions, approvals, change records, status reports, meeting outcomes, and lessons learned.* Build trusted relationships across Federal stakeholders, vendors, architects, delivery teams, and operations partners while promoting accountability, constructive conflict resolution, team empowerment, and a culture of continuous improvement.**What You Will Need:*** Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication is required before onboarding. An active Public Trust or suitability determination is preferred.* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, project management, or a related field.* Minimum TEN (10) years of prior relevant experience* Minimum of eight years of experience managing complex software development, cloud, systems integration, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, or enterprise technology initiatives.* Demonstrated success managing end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholder groups, including projects in which legacy and modern platforms operate concurrently.* Strong command of project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, cost, resource, quality, procurement, risk, communications, stakeholder, and change management.* Experience using Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, and predictive delivery approaches, with the judgment to tailor practices to project risk, complexity, governance, and contractual needs.* Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and modern delivery practices, including cloud environments, application development, integrations, testing, release management, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and operational readiness.* Experience managing technical initiatives involving AWS cloud environments and Java-based applications, with the ability to understand dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and operational impacts at a project-management level.* Ability to understand architecture diagrams, interface dependencies, technical tradeoffs, nonfunctional requirements, and security or compliance constraints, and translate them into actionable plans without serving as the solution architect.* Experience establishing governance, baselines, stage gates, acceptance criteria, metrics, dashboards, and audit-ready project documentation.* Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, estimating, forecasting, variance analysis, EAC, ETC, and resource capacity planning.* Demonstrated ability to identify root causes, evaluate options, manage ambiguity, resolve conflict, negotiate commitments, and drive timely risk-based decisions.* Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.* Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused, and solution-oriented leadership style.* Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project or an equivalent scheduling tool and working proficiency with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and dashboard or reporting tools.* Self-motivated and adaptable, with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, sound professional judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.Soft Skills and Leadership Qualities:* **Collaborative leadership:** Builds alignment around a shared vision, sets clear expectations, delegates effectively, and empowers teams to take ownership of outcomes.* **Emotional intelligence:** Demonstrates self-awareness, empathy, composure, and situational awareness when navigating high-pressure environments and diverse perspectives.* **Communication and active listening:** Communicates with clarity and transparency, tailors messages to the audience, asks thoughtful questions, and confirms shared understanding.* **Influence and negotiation:** Builds consensus and secures commitments across teams and stakeholders, including situations where direct authority is limited.* **Conflict resolution:** Addresses disagreement early, facilitates constructive dialogue, separates issues from individuals, and drives practical, equitable resolutions.* **Adaptability and resilience:** Remains calm and effective amid shifting priorities, incomplete information, technical complexity, and delivery pressure.* **Decisiveness and accountability:** Makes timely, evidence-based decisions, communicates tradeoffs, follows through on commitments, and holds self and others constructively accountable.* **Integrity and trust:** Models ethical behavior, discretion, reliability, transparency, and respect in interactions with clients, partners, and team members.* **Coaching and team development:** Provides actionable feedback, recognizes contributions, supports professional growth, and creates psychological safety for questions, learning, and responsible escalation.* **Inclusive collaboration:** Values varied expertise and perspectives, promotes respectful participation, and fosters productive partnerships across technical, business, vendor, and Federal teams.**What Would Be Nice To Have:*** PMP certification; PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable agile, service management, or scaled delivery certification.* Experience delivering federal or regulated technology programs aligned with government lifecycle, cybersecurity, accessibility, privacy, records management, and audit requirements.* Experience supporting delivery of AWS-hosted applications, Java-based systems, APIs, integrations, or DevSecOps-enabled initiatives.* AWS or related cloud certification and familiarity with enterprise Java application environments.* Experience managing API-enabled integration layers, data exchange patterns, canonical data models, identity and access integration, or interface-control processes.* Experience leading multi-vendor delivery within a shared enterprise architecture and managing contractual deliverables, service levels, subcontractor dependencies, and vendor remediation plans.* Experience with organizational change management, user-centered design, training, communications, adoption, and transition-to-operations activities.* Experience applying quantitative delivery metrics, earned value or comparable performance-management techniques, root-cause analysis, and lessons learned to improve predictability and outcomes.**What We Offer:**Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.Benefits include:* Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance* Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays* Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus* Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance* 401(k) Retirement Plan* Basic Life & Supplemental Life* Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts* Short-Term & Long-Term Disability* Student Loan PayDown* Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities* Skills Development & Certifications* Employee Referral Program* Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach* Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program* Mobility Stipend**About Guidehouse**Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.*Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through