Senior Technical Program Manager

Project Manager

RBR-Technologies is a small service-disabled veteran-owned information and technology business founded on the basic principle of delivering customer mission success.

RBR-technologies prides itself on our commitment to mission success as exemplified by the trust our customers and contract partners place in us.

From RBR's first employee to the present day, every team member has a passion for mission success. Since 2011, we have continued to employ the highest caliber of professionals whose success is attributed to the intelligence, dedication, and years of experience within many government organizations including the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

RBR-Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to support our DCSA customer in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Our specific work, which revolves around technology modernization for Industrial security, is an ongoing effort to add an analytic capability for industry partners and Government analysts that collects, stores, automates and centralizes information supporting risk analysis for entities in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).

The candidate will support DCSA Industrial Security technology modernization by leading a matrixed multi-disciplinary team delivering data analytic services that will integrate with existing web application development to enhance and extract insights from specific commercial and government data.

Primary Responsibilities

As part of the RBR PM NISS Team, the Senior Technical Program Manager will have the primary role in ensuring program technical, cost and schedule contract commitments are satisfied.

In this role; the Senior Technical Program Manager will be responsible for leading an integrated team for assigning and monitoring technical, cost and schedule objectives, as well as interfacing directly with the customer to ensure operational activities are completed to the customers satisfaction.

Additional duties include; active participation in design discussions, gathering and analyzing user requirements, documentation, and processes to discover and develop optimal operation solutions.

Some of the responsibilities associated with the position include :

• Manage, coordinate and control Project Work Plan execution to achieve project technical, cost and schedule objectives
• Serves as the main Point of Contact (POC) for the Contracting Officer (CO), the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and the Government Program Manager
• Directly responsible for program efforts, including cost management / avoidance, schedule estimating and tracking, contract performance management, risk management, requirements analysis, and quality assurance activities
• Develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) that incorporates all projects into one consolidated view that depicts the overall program schedule status and individual application schedules
• Rapidly assemble and execute focused cross-disciplinary Government / Contractor teams to address urgent or unexpected cost, schedule, or technical program / contract issues
• Efficiently and effectively work toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple constraints.
• Lead the project team and regular project meetings to monitor and drive progress toward project objectives
• Maintain effective customer communications, ensuring that all customer requirements and expectations are addressed effectively
• Foster a good working relationship with subcontractor partners, vendors, and stakeholders
• Interfaces with RBR Ownership and DCSA Portfolio Manager providing consistent updates on cost, schedule, and performance
• Address and resolve project issues pertaining to project work scope, technical requirements, quality, schedule, resource assignments, cost customer interface and other project related activities
• Develop and monitor the Project Risk Management Plan as part of project planning and execution
• Serve as a point of contact to our DCSA clients responsible for analyzing and / or implementing enterprise solution design using best industry practices
• Support the facilitation of requirements gathering and documentation to support an agile development methodology.
• Participate in the design and development of plans that enable solutions within cloud environments to include new or modifications to applications, forms, workflow, policies, actions, access control, interfaces, and any other configurations required to support client needs.
• Develop capability roadmaps, schedules, and resourcing requirements for enterprise solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of relevant experience or bachelor's degree and 14+ years of relevant experience or master's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience
• Active Secret clearance
• Experience in managing large IT Programs with more than 75 employees
• Experience in managing programs of $20M or more per year
• Experience with various Microsoft technologies such as MS Office 2013 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Visio, and SharePoint
• Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision
• 5 years of direct experience managing / working with DoD IT systems
• Robust understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), to include requirements collection, validation and decomposition
• Good understanding of commercial enterprise platform solutions (AWS)
• Strong proficiency in briefing senior leaders / executives
• Good understanding of agile software development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile Scrum / Kanban principles, PMI / ACP, ScrumMaster, Product Owner, PMI PMP
• KM Platforms (SharePoint, MS Teams, Wiki tools) experience
• Strong background in DoD Acquisition policy, to include DoD Instruction 5000.87 - Software Acquisition Pathway
• Understanding of DoD cybersecurity requirements for IT systems and cloud-based platforms
• Successful past Project or Program Leadership
• Experience with Software Development Projects
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, containerization, and container orchestration

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at RBR-Technologies, where employment is based on personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any protected characteristic as established by law.

This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other conditions of employment.