Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of RCF/RCP program execution by converting vague requests into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, responsibilities, dependencies, and measurable milestones.

• Create a unified intake process and prioritized backlog in collaboration with Product and RCF/RCP teams.

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

• Monitor infrastructure needs, access permissions, networking, secrets management, model-provider integrations, and comprehensive workflow validation.

• Collaborate with GRC and security stakeholders on RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements; oversee remediation efforts, evidence preparation, and approval dependencies.

• Manage release and image transitions, encompassing versioning, compatibility assessments, vulnerability scans, software bills of materials, release manifests, deployment instructions, and rollback procedures.

• Facilitate ongoing support for federal deployments, addressing patching, hardening, upgrades, security issues, and sustainment obligations.

• Coordinate technical issue triage and escalations among dedicated and shared platform teams.

• Ensure the resolution of integration, performance, reliability, and observability issues in alignment with acceptance criteria.

• Develop repeatable onboarding processes and operational transitions through runbooks, architecture and data flow documentation, training sessions, and knowledge transfer.

• Conduct planning, grooming, delivery reviews, and risk management; offer stakeholders insight into commitments, capacity, dependencies, trade-offs, and decision-making.

• Identify reusable partner requirements to inform the core platform roadmap.

• Staff: independently manage complex RCF/RCP programs across engineering, security, operations, and partner teams.

• Senior Staff: oversee a portfolio of interconnected RCF/RCP programs, influence engagement and delivery models, guide roadmap and investment decisions, and establish scalable practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Capability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, as dictated by 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 Sr. Staff.

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

• Strong technical acumen and experience in guiding cross-team execution, prioritization, risk management, and customer-facing escalations in uncertain situations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with engineers, security experts, partner teams, and executives, including the ability to challenge vague requirements and negotiate feasible commitments.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, and integration boundaries sufficient to review technical plans, question assumptions, and lead trade-off discussions.

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

• Working knowledge of secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, observability, and operational readiness.

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

🏝️ Benefits

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

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

• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at employees' usual pay rate.

• Unlimited PTO, subject to management approval.

• Opportunities for professional development and ongoing education.

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

• Mental health support offered through Tara Mind.