Staff Technical Program Manager Jobs in Virginia

Technical Program Manager
Primary Responsibilities
Program Execution and Delivery • Lead day-to-day program-management activities supporting HNJJ and STITCHES. • Maintain an integrated understanding of program scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables. • Coordinate execution across software-development, systems, integration, test, operations, and customer workstreams. • Translate technical objectives and customer priorities into clear actions, owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes. • Track program commitments and ensure deliverables are completed on schedule and meet established requirements. • Identify schedule, staffing, technical, financial, and contractual issues before they materially affect delivery. • Develop and manage corrective-action or recovery plans when milestones or deliverables are at risk. • Maintain action, risk, issue, dependency, and decision logs and drive open items through closure. • Support planning and execution of technical demonstrations, integration events, testing activities, releases, and customer reviews. • Ensure decisions and changes are documented and reflected in program schedules and delivery plans. Software and Systems Integration Coordination • Work closely with software developers, systems engineers, technical leads, integrators, testers, and customer representatives. • Understand software-development and systems-integration lifecycles sufficiently to identify dependencies, constraints, and delivery risks. • Coordinate activities involving software components, system interfaces, data flows, integration points, testing, deployment, and sustainment. • Support requirements definition, refinement, traceability, and validation. • Facilitate technical discussions and ensure that decisions, assumptions, and tradeoffs are clearly captured. • Help align software-development schedules with systems-integration, test, release, and customer-acceptance activities. • Track technical interdependencies across internal teams, external partners, government organizations, and supporting systems. • Partner with technical leads to define acceptance criteria, readiness measures, and program-level success indicators. • Ensure technical work is represented accurately in executive and customer-facing program reporting. PMO Structure and Governance • Maintain practical and repeatable program-management processes appropriate for an established technical program. • Develop and maintain program schedules, work-breakdown structures, status reports, dashboards, and performance metrics. • Establish a consistent operating rhythm for internal team coordination, technical reviews, and customer engagement. • Standardize program documentation while avoiding unnecessary administrative burden. • Support configuration management, change control, requirements tracking, and document management. • Maintain accurate records of program decisions, risks, milestones, deliverables, and customer commitments. • Prepare materials for program reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews, and executive briefings. • Provide leadership with accurate and timely visibility into program health, resource needs, and emerging risks. Customer and Stakeholder Management • Serve as a key program interface among NALEJ leadership, government customers, technical teams, subcontractors, and mission partners. • Build trust through responsiveness, transparency, technical credibility, and reliable follow-through. • Prepare and deliver program updates, executive briefings, technical-status summaries, and decision materials. • Translate technical information into clear language for nontechnical stakeholders. • Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate potential issues early. • Facilitate meetings, establish clear decisions and actions, and ensure follow-up responsibilities are understood. • Coordinate with customer program managers, technical representatives, contracting personnel, and acquisition stakeholders as required. Resource, Contract, and Financial Coordination • Support program staffing plans, labor forecasts, resource allocation, and workload prioritization. • Monitor performance against contractual scope, schedule, staffing, and delivery requirements. • Coordinate with contracts, finance, operations, and leadership to maintain program visibility and compliance. • Identify potential scope changes, emerging requirements, and out-of-scope requests. • Support estimates, proposals, task-order activities, contract modifications, and follow-on program opportunities. • Assist with budget tracking, burn-rate monitoring, subcontractor coordination, and program forecasts. • Ensure program documentation supports customer acceptance, invoicing, and contractual reporting. Risk and Performance Management • Identify and track software, integration, schedule, staffing, customer, contractual, and operational risks. • Assign accountable owners and monitor mitigation activities through completion. • Develop program performance measures and dashboards that provide actionable information. • Conduct regular reviews of program health, milestone status, technical dependencies, and resource constraints. • Escalate significant risks with clearly defined impacts, options, and recommended actions. • Capture lessons learned and apply them to improve future program execution. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology, engineering, or a related technical discipline. • At least five years of experience in technical program management, project management, software delivery, systems integration, systems engineering, or a related technical environment. • Demonstrated experience coordinating software-development, systems, integration, engineering, or technical-delivery teams. • Working understanding of software-development lifecycles and systems-integration processes. • Ability to understand technical requirements, dependencies, interfaces, risks, and delivery constraints. • Experience developing and maintaining program schedules, milestones, risk registers, action trackers, and executive-status reports. • Experience working across technical and nontechnical stakeholders in a matrixed organization. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to translate technical information for senior leaders, customers, and business stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to organize complex work, establish accountability, and drive actions through completion. • Ability to operate effectively within an established program while identifying opportunities to improve execution. • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance. • Ability to work from or support teams located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area or Boston, Massachusetts. Preferred Qualifications • Experience supporting U.S. Air Force programs, organizations, or mission systems. • Familiarity with Air Force program management, acquisition, contracting, or capability-development processes. • Experience managing or supporting Air Force software-development programs. • Experience in a Department of Defense, defense-contractor, federal, or national-security environment. • Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI security clearance. • Experience managing Agile, DevSecOps, continuous-integration, or continuous-delivery environments. • Familiarity with software releases, testing, deployment, integration, and sustainment. • Experience supporting mature programs transitioning through modernization, expansion, or continued operational delivery. • Familiarity with government statements of work, performance work statements, integrated master schedules, work-breakdown structures, and contract deliverables. • Experience coordinating subcontractors, vendors, government partners, or distributed technical teams. • Project Management Professional, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related certification. • Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, SharePoint, or comparable platforms.