CareerPlan

Staff / Principal Technical Program Manager

Arlington, VAFull-time2026-10-20 → 2026-10-21
Security clearance required

Core

Run the planning cycle for product and engineering teams to ensure honest estimates, reliable delivery forecasts, and explicit tradeoffs for government mission milestones.

Role type

Staff/Principal Technical Program Manager (Delivery Planning)

Builds

Software products for U.S. government and allied customers

Domain

Cybersecurity / National Security

Required skills

Delivery planning across multiple teams, technical estimation validation, product requirements analysis, stakeholder management, risk register maintenance, status reporting, dependency mapping

Preferred skills

Defense/intelligence program experience, software deployment coordination, process design from scratch, AI tooling for reporting

Technologies

Go, Python, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Linear, Notion, Jira, Confluence

Responsibilities

Lead planning sessions from intake to close-out, maintain delivery forecast with confidence levels, track engineering work against external commitments, manage deployment milestone registers, facilitate tradeoff decisions for roadmap changes, produce executive status rollups

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship