Technical Project Manager (Homeland Security) with Security Clearance

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Job description

MUST HAVE ACTIVE DHS CLEARANCE FOR CONSIDERATION Seeking a Technical Project Manager to join one of our federal projects supporting DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Washington D.C. The ideal candidate has a technical background supporting either networking or cloud infrastructure initiatives, knows the ins and outs of Agile frameworks (namely Scrum and Kanban), has the ability to support a Product Owner in both the strategic and tactical sides of project management, and is great at building relationships across teams and stakeholders. This is a direct-hire, full time position with salary and benefits. We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with match, Flexible Spending Account, and Paid Time Off (PTO)-including vacation and holiday pay. Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Provide technical Project Management and Scrum Master support across the complete lifecycle of solution discovery and delivery for Agile teams supporting networking and cloud infrastructure initiatives. Technologies include TIC 3.0, API Discovery, API Gateway, Palo Alto, Bluecoat Proxy Filtering Retirement, Kion.io, and
• Lead stakeholder collaboration sessions to understand goals, pain points, and needs and translate these into features areas and supporting requirements.
• Partner with Product Owners to assist with techniques for managing stakeholders, prioritizing and refining the Product Backlog, and writing clear and concise User Stories.
• Facilitate planning activities from the longer-term, strategic Roadmaps to the shorter-term, tactical Release Plans and Sprint Plans.
• Promote and ensure cross-team collaboration with external teams.
• Help establish and promote adherence to strong technical practices, release management standards, and Agile principles and practices.
• Ensure contractual deliverables - such as task schedules, roadmaps, communication plans, risk registers, and executive briefs - are delivered in a timely and high-quality manner. Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Business, mathematics, computer science, information systems, or other related discipline from an accredited college, university, or academic institution in the United States.
• Managing Federal IT projects within an Agile environment.
• Experience with Federal cloud or Federal networking projects
• Existing and active DHS EOD/clearance (ICE preferred).
• Great at managing relationships, building teams, and driving collaboration across stakeholders and team members.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, coupled with high interpersonal skills to build relationships across teams and stakeholders.
• Experience supporting the development of Product Owner artifacts, including Goals, Roadmaps, and a Product backlog.
• Ability to work across a variety of individuals, teams, and levels of seniority, whether it be supporting an individual team member with a challenge, helping a team with planning, or presenting to executives. Additional preferred qualifications:
• PMP or PMP-ACI preferred
• Additional Agile certifications a bonus (CSM, CSPO, or equivalents)
• Previous hands-on technical experience, specifically with networking both on premises and in the cloud
• Previous hands-on technical experience, specifically with cloud infrastructure across the three major Cloud Service Providers

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