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)