Overview

Overview

Are you a leader? Energetic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?

Steampunk is seeking a Technical Project Manager who is creative and is a hands-on expert with delivering innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities will include team leadership for the complete life cycle of solution development and delivery, providing Agile Project Management support and Scrum Master support for Agile teams, coordinating with product owners and stakeholders on prioritizing the backlog, creating release schedules and roadmaps based on assessment recommendations, and establishing technical practices and release management standards that align with the customer's process. This individual will also ensure the team is following, and effective at, Agile scrum processes as well as driving high client satisfaction.

Contributions

Contributions

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be leading the project tasking and delivery in a government client consulting environment. You will be a client liaison, team coach, and mentor.

You will also:

Manage and maintain successful/results-oriented relationships with the client, as well as identify and pursue new opportunities with existing client.
Develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, manage remote project delivery team, and possess the ability to facilitate technical discussions to troubleshoot project implementation issues.
Assess the current organization and delivery environment and recommend optimal Agile practices tailored to the client.
Provide the Agile Scrum Master support. Attend Agile ceremonies and provide input as needed.
Remove blockers to ensure project success.
Coach the Product Owner and team on backlog refinement and prioritization.
Handle challenging client situations and offer technical and business guidance and direction to client executives.
Serve as the technical lead for infrastructure, cloud, and visualization initiatives.
Provide expert-level engineering and strategic advisory services to support cloud platform development and modernization across public and private cloud environments.
Lead the automation of operational workflows to improve service resilience, reduce manual labor, and ensure consistency.
Develop and maintain system documentation, scripts, and configuration artifacts to support compliance and continuity requirements.
Collaborate with government stakeholders, system administrators, and engineers to ensure performance, scalability, and security of the hosting environment.
Lead and manage staff, monitor staff performance.
Evaluate project feasibility, eliminate non-productive tasking, and find creative ways to ensure project delivery and if feasible accelerate delivery.
Assist staff with training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
10+ years of progressive experience supporting Cloud Platform infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud integration in large-scale enterprise or federal environments.
Recognized expertise in cloud native services, cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Python).
Demonstrated experience supporting mission-critical private and public cloud operations, including disaster recovery planning, high availability (HA), and operational scripting.
Experience advising senior government IT leadership on infrastructure modernization and automation strategies.
Strong judgment, negotiation skills, organizational, and analytical skills.
Experience working in a complex engineering environment with prior experience as a technical project manager.
Ability to establish trust with a variety of stakeholders and customers.
Self-managed and self-starter, ability to work independently.
Thrives to be a leader.
Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills.
Must have and maintain an active certification.
Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
Local to Washington, DC area.
Have a current NIH Clearance.

Preferred

PMP certification
ITIL Foundation certification
Experience with ServiceNow

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $140,000 to $180,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers - and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.

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