# Principal Technical Project Manager (TPM)

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead our biometrics modernization efforts. As a TPM, you will have direct leadership of our biometrics modernization efforts and interaction with one or more software development teams and perform as a key customer liaison with basic technical knowledge about complex system and application development.

Responsibilities Include:

- Develop and manage project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, defining success criteria and project milestones, and budgets while identifying and mitigating limitations to execution.

- Communicate large and complicated concepts to customers and technical teammates easily.

- Apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations.

- Use agile delivery methodology to lead project teams consisting of business and technical resources while managing scope, schedule, and cost to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals.

- Track the team's work to the completion of all deliverables accepted into a PI.

- Coordinate with team members and customer sets to ensure stories have all the information needed to complete the work and that all necessary stories are created.

- Coordinate / socialize production changes and brief appropriate boards for deployment approval.

Basic Qualifications:

- In-depth knowledge of common Agile practices, service-orientated environments, development practice, in-depth experience as a technical expert across multiple project assignments while supervising others.

- Understanding of biometric technologies to include a working knowledge of multiple modalities (e.g., fingerprint, iris, face).

- Experience working directly with government customers to drive requirements and coordinate status reporting.

- Exposure to web development teams and able to apply a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks that are high impact assignments.

- Experience operating in SAFe and Agile frameworks with experience planning and leading major technology assignments.

- Experience evaluating performance results and recommending major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.

- Bachelor's Degree with 12 or more years of experience and will consider work experience in lieu of a degree.

- Clearance Required: Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology

- Previous hands-on software development or infrastructure experience

- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

- Experience with biometrics examiner workflows and business processes

- Basic knowledge of major biometric COTS solutions (e.g. IDEMIA, Rank One)

## Skills

### Required
- Agile practices
- biometric technologies
- SAFe
- Agile frameworks
- project management

### Nice to have
- software development
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- biometrics examiner workflows

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