Technical Project Manager with Security Clearance

The Technical Project Manager is a Key Personnel position and technical lead for the ATF BATS Modernization – USBDC / AERID / NCETR. This role oversees the modernized BATS platform—a complex, microservices-based, browser-agnostic case management system used by over 6,000 arson and explosives investigators nationwide.

Clearance: Public Trust Background Investigation Huntsville, AL – National Center for Explosives, Training, and Research (NCETR) Technical Project Manager — Government Program Responsibilities • Lead delivery of a federal Agile or DevSecOps modernization program supporting government stakeholders, technical teams, and contract leadership. • Develop, maintain, and manage the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and release planning. • Establish and enforce sprint governance across Agile teams, including sprint planning, backlog readiness, demos, retrospectives, and dependency tracking. • Maintain the program risk register, track mitigation actions, elevate issues, and communicate impacts to schedule, scope, and performance. • Prepare and deliver recurring COR/GTM status reporting, including progress, risks, milestones, impediments, staffing, and deliverable status. • Monitor and manage team velocity, sprint burn rates, throughput, and capacity to support realistic forecasting and release planning. • Coordinate with product owners, architects, developers, testers, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to align execution with program priorities. • Support government meetings, action item tracking, decision logs, and follow-up closure across technical and program management forums. • Ensure program execution aligns with contract requirements, deliverables, quality standards, and federal reporting expectations. • Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, governance, metrics, and DevSecOps execution.

Required Qualifications • 6+ years of experience in project or program management supporting federal government IT programs. • Demonstrated experience managing federal Agile or DevSecOps programs with multiple workstreams and cross-functional technical teams. • Hands-on experience developing and managing an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). • Experience leading sprint governance, including Agile ceremonies, dependency management, sprint reporting, and release tracking. • Experience maintaining a risk register and managing issue, risk, and mitigation reporting for government stakeholders. • Experience preparing and presenting COR/GTM reports, executive status briefings, and program performance updates. • Experience with velocity management, Agile metrics, forecasting, and delivery performance monitoring. • Strong knowledge of federal program controls, technical delivery oversight, and stakeholder coordination. • Proficiency with Agile and program management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Confluence, or similar. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience supporting government-facing meetings and reporting. • AWS Solutions Architect certification required. • CSM or PSM certification required.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines, release management, and secure software delivery in a federal environment. • Experience supporting COR, GTM, PMO, or executive-level reporting for DOJ, DoD, DHS, or other civilian agencies. • Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and delivery frameworks in cloud or hybrid environments. • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.