Technical Program Manager (Homeland Layered Defense), Public Sector

What you'll do

• Manage technical execution from initial requirements through deployment and formal evaluation, maintaining requirements traceability and program schedules.
• Translate operational workflows into engineering requirements and coordinate scope, architecture constraints, dependencies, milestones, and execution with engineering teams.
• Manage customer and partner relationships, resolve technical blockers, and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to stakeholders.

What they ask for

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, product management, technical consulting, or a related technical delivery role.
• Technical literacy across software architecture, APIs, data systems, system integration, and AI/ML-enabled products; ability to write detailed, executable technical and product requirements.
• Experience driving complex technical programs across multiple engineering and stakeholder groups; understanding of program management fundamentals and secure-environment data and integration constraints.

Nice to have

• Technical degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, or a related field; proficiency in Python, SQL, or another programming language.
• Prior engineering, architecture, or technical product management experience; experience building or deploying AI/ML and agentic systems on classified networks.

Pay

$166,400 — $208,000 USD base salary

Tools

Jira, GitLab, Python, SQL

AI focus

Deliver agentic AI to orchestrate portfolio management for homeland defense; the role may involve AI/ML-enabled products and classified-network AI/ML systems.