Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of RCF/RCP technical program delivery from the initial request to validated customer acceptance.

• Convert vague requests into clearly defined user stories, acceptance criteria, designated owners, dependencies, and testable milestones.

• Create a unified intake process and a prioritized backlog alongside Product and RCF/RCP counterparts.

• Ensure readiness for secure deployment across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments.

• Monitor infrastructure prerequisites, access requirements, networking needs, secrets management, model-provider integrations, and end-to-end workflow validation.

• Collaborate with GRC and security stakeholders regarding RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements.

• Facilitate engineering remediation, readiness of evidence, and dependencies for approvals.

• Manage release and image transitions, including versioning, compatibility checks, vulnerability scans, SBOMs, release manifests, deployment guides, and rollback preparedness.

• Provide ongoing support for federal deployments, including patching, hardening, upgrades, addressing security findings, and fulfilling sustainment commitments.

• Oversee partner issue triage and technical escalations across both dedicated and shared platform teams.

• Address integration, performance, reliability, and observability gaps effectively.

• Develop repeatable onboarding and operational handoffs using runbooks, architecture and data-flow documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.

• Conduct planning, grooming, delivery reviews, and escalate risks as necessary.

• Offer technical and executive stakeholders clear visibility into commitments, capacity, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions.

• Lead intricate or interdependent RCF/RCP programs, shaping engagement, delivery, roadmap, and investment practices at the Staff/Senior Staff level.

• Work collaboratively with full-stack software engineers, DevOps/SRE, Platform Engineering, Product teams, GRC, and RCF/RCP technical leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Capability and willingness to acquire and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, as required by the assigned programs.

• 8–10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or similar technical delivery roles, demonstrating Staff-level scope; broader multi-program leadership and organizational influence for Senior Staff.

• Proven history of delivering complex software, infrastructure, or platform programs to external clients, particularly in secure or regulated environments.

• Strong technical judgment and experience in leading cross-team execution, prioritization, risk management, and customer-facing escalations amidst ambiguity.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with engineers, security specialists, partner teams, and executives, including the ability to challenge unclear requirements and negotiate realistic commitments.

• Knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, and integration boundaries.

• Experience with cloud and/or on-premises deployments, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, identity/access management, and secrets management.

• Familiarity with secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, observability, and operational readiness.

• Ability to translate security and compliance requirements into engineering deliverables and validation evidence in collaboration with GRC.

• Prior experience as a TPM supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs is highly preferred.

• A current U.S. government security clearance is strongly preferred.

• Experience with RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, POA&M remediation tracking, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 environments is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with Second Front or comparable federal deployment platforms, government cloud environments, and ongoing support for authorized systems is strongly preferred.

• Experience in supporting AI/ML platforms, agent integrations, or developer tools across various partner organizations is highly preferred.

• High sense of ownership, sound judgment, and proactive follow-through.

• Comfortable transitioning between technical details and executive-level decisions.

• Practical, collaborative, and focused on achieving customer outcomes and consistent delivery.

🏝️ Benefits

• Career track opportunity with the potential for rapid advancement based on strong performance as the firm expands.

• Comprehensive health care, including medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, fully paid by the employer.

• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at the employee's normal pay.

• Unlimited PTO, subject to management approval.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives are available.

• Mental health benefits are provided through Tara Mind.

• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions are available through Crux.