Technical Program Manager Data Product Delivery Lead

Herndon, Virginia

IDPA-3515

Job TypeFull Time

Remote TypeOn-Site

Compensation$150000 - $165000 / yr

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.-Based)

Compensation: $150,000 – $165,000 per year (W-2) + Full Benefits

Clearance/Eligibility: U.S. Citizenship Required (Dual citizens and green card holders are prohibited by contract terms)

About Our Client

Our client is a high-growth AI and data innovation consultancy trusted by federal agencies—including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA—to solve mission-critical data challenges. Their work spans the complete data lifecycle, from enterprise governance and cloud architecture to production machine learning pipelines and executive visualization.

They are recognized for delivery excellence: winner of the United Nations COP27 Datathon, recipient of multiple SEC Chair’s and Vision Awards, commended by FDA leadership, and consistently rated "Exceptional" across all federal CPARS reviews.

Structured as a certified Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) firm, they operate with a mission-first ethos: business success must generate measurable public value, solve difficult federal problems, and invest deeply in technical staff. They lead with a core philosophy—people, process, and technology, in that order.

The Mission & First Project

In this role, you will take integrated delivery ownership of three production data products across the firm and its federal delivery partners.

This is a hands-on technical delivery role, not an administrative coordinator position. You will convert a rigid delivery schedule and complex technical scope into clear engineering decisions, on-time federal acceptance, and a high-performing cross-functional team.

Your day-one deliverables include:

Unified Program Governance: Establish and manage a single integrated master plan, backlog, release calendar, risk register, decision log, and definition of done.
Milestone Execution: Drive delivery across all monthly milestones and formal federal deliverables, ensuring complete technical verification and acceptance evidence are locked down prior to submission.
Agile Leadership: Run a disciplined agile cadence connecting daily standups, biweekly technical demonstrations, weekly client management syncs, and formal monthly federal reporting.
Dependency & Blocker Elimination: Proactively resolve complex blockers across environment access, data ingestion pipelines, cloud architecture, subcontractor staffing, and federal security clearances.
High-Signal Communication: Author crisp, actionable status reports, escalation paths, and risk trade-offs designed for rapid executive decision-making.
Partner Performance Management: Maintain visible accountability and quality control across all project resources, including prime and subcontractor personnel.

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of technical delivery leadership, including direct ownership of at least three enterprise data, analytics, cloud migration, or artificial intelligence (AI) programs.
Hands-on Technical Fluency: Practical working knowledge across data engineering pipelines, cloud infrastructure, analytics stacks, automated testing, and model deployment workflows.
Federal Delivery Track Record: Direct experience navigating federal clients, subcontractor teams, contract deliverables, formal government acceptance criteria, and security onboarding processes.
Practical Agile Execution: Demonstrated mastery of backlog grooming, sprint planning, client demos, retrospectives, and corrective delivery action plans.
Stakeholder Management: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to brief agency executives comfortably while translating client feedback into structured engineering tasks.
Education & Security: Bachelor’s degree; United States citizenship (contract requirements strictly prohibit dual citizens and green card holders); and the ability to satisfy all required federal agency suitability, background, and access checks.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven delivery experience on federal environments accredited at DoD/FedRAMP Impact Level 5 (IL-5) or higher.
Technical familiarity with Azure Databricks, Microsoft Power BI, ServiceNow, or federal financial and audit data systems.
PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or formal Product Management credentials supported by verifiable enterprise outcomes.
Experience managing firm-fixed-price (FFP) contracts and deliverable-based invoicing schedules.

Culture & Candidate Fit

Composure Under Fire: You remain calm under delivery pressure and escalate emerging blockers early before they turn into costly program failures.
Low Ego, High Accountability: You communicate directly, maintain rigorous delivery standards, and are comfortable holding senior engineers and partner leads accountable.
Altitude Range: You can present strategic milestones to federal agency executives in the morning and review pipeline test coverage or sprint backlogs in the afternoon.
Tenacious Execution: You understand that passive check-ins do not resolve federal access bottlenecks—you follow through relentlessly until dependencies clear.
Integrity in Reporting: You protect customer relationships without obscuring hard delivery realities from executive leadership.

Total Rewards & Benefits

Base Salary: $150,000 – $165,000 per year (Full-time W-2).
100% Employer-Paid Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered and 50% dependent coverage.
Retirement: 401(k) with an immediate 100% company match up to 4% of salary and immediate vesting.
Time Off: Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
Insurance Coverage: Employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability policies.
Continuous Learning: Fully sponsored technical certifications (e.g., DCAM, AWS credentials) and continuing education support.