Technical Project Manager – Business Experimentation & Optimization

Technical Project Manager – Business Experimentation & Optimization
Location: Arlington, VA – Hybrid (3 Days Onsite/Week)
Duration: Long-Term Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager / Program Manager to support the Business Experimentation & Optimization (BE&O) Program Management Office.

This role will drive high-impact engineering initiatives across technology modernization, cloud transformation, data delivery, and analytics platform evolution. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, product, data, infrastructure, security, business operations, and external partner teams to coordinate complex, cross-functional programs.

The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and structured problem solver who can bring clarity, accountability, and momentum to initiatives involving multiple teams, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordination, and execution of high-priority technology programs and engineering initiatives.
• Manage modernization, platform migration, cloud transformation, and data delivery workstreams.
• Partner with engineering, product, technical leads, BizOps, shared services, and partner teams to define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery plans.
• Establish and manage program operating rhythms, including status reporting, stakeholder reviews, dependency tracking, escalation follow-up, and leadership communications.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to maintain alignment on priorities, timelines, blockers, ownership, and key decisions.
• Maintain program-level tracking of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and mitigation plans.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, security, data, cloud, and enterprise platform teams to support development, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
• Support initiatives involving analytics platforms, cloud-first infrastructure, Databricks, data platforms, customer data ingestion, and future-state architecture.
• Prepare executive-ready status reports, roadmaps, dependency views, project updates, decision documents, and lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities to improve PMO processes, delivery transparency, intake, governance, and cross-team collaboration.
• Help teams adapt to changing priorities, technical constraints, and evolving business requirements while maintaining disciplined execution.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing complex technology programs or technical projects involving multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, cloud modernization, data platforms, infrastructure dependencies, and enterprise technology delivery.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical information into clear updates for business, product, engineering, and leadership audiences.
• Proven ability to manage ambiguity, drive alignment, facilitate decisions, and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational skills with experience maintaining program plans, status reports, risk logs, action trackers, and dependency tracking.
• Experience working with engineering, product, data, security, operations, and shared services teams.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority and build effective relationships across distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting analytics, experimentation, data delivery, or platform modernization programs.
• Familiarity with Databricks, cloud platforms, data lakehouse concepts, API-driven architectures, and scalable data ingestion.
• Experience working within a PMO or centralized program governance function supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Experience preparing executive-facing presentations, roadmaps, dependency maps, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience with Agile delivery, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and program reporting tools.

What Success Looks Like

• Modernization and data delivery programs have clear plans, ownership, milestones, and well-managed dependencies.
• Stakeholders have clear visibility into progress, risks, blockers, and decisions.
• Cross-functional teams remain aligned and can move quickly through effective coordination and escalation.
• Leadership receives concise and actionable visibility into program health and delivery confidence.
• PMO processes become more consistent, transparent, and effective across engineering initiatives.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a proactive Technical Program/Project Manager who thrives at the intersection of engineering execution, stakeholder management, and operational discipline.

They should be comfortable navigating complex technical environments, coordinating multiple teams, driving accountability without direct authority, and communicating effectively with both technical teams and senior leadership.