Technical Project Manager

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to support the GrantSolutions contract. The role leads the end-to-end planning, governance, and delivery of complex technical initiatives involving modernization, cloud adoption, cybersecurity, integrations, and operational improvements. The position coordinates cross-functional teams, vendors, stakeholders, budgets, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.

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 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

Requirements:

• • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication is required before onboarding
• • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, project management, or a related field
• • Minimum of Twelve (12) years of prior relevant experience
• • Minimum of ten (10) 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
• • 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
• • 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
• An active Public Trust or suitability determination is preferred
• • PMP certification; PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, ITIL, or comparable agile, service management, or scaled delivery certification