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Maximus · 1 hour ago

Technical Program Manager

McLean, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $180K/yr

10+ years exp

Maximus is hiring a deeply technical, forward-thinking Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead a large-scale, mission-critical federal financial program that serves millions of public users. The role involves owning strategy delivery operations for a secure, high-availability platform and ensuring compliance with various regulatory standards while managing complex cross-functional work and delivering measurable outcomes.

Business Process Automation (BPA)ConsultingEducationGovernmentGovTechHealth CareInformation Technology

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Define and deliver a multi-year roadmap aligned to agency mission-prioritizing resilience, performance, and user outcomes

Translate policy and regulatory drivers into measurable technical objectives, OKRs, and SLOs

Orchestrate complex, cross-functional work across 20-40 services (ingestion, validation/rules engines, taxonomy services, indexing/search, dissemination)

Drive schedules, budgets, resourcing, and critical path with crisp dependency management

Lead deep dives with architects/engineers on RedHat OpenShift Platform, AWS GovCloud, event/streaming patterns, storage/indexing, API design, observability, and cost/performance trade-offs

Champion patterns like blue-green/canary, idempotent pipelines, and strangler-fig modernizations

Engineer for market-hour spikes and public traffic surges

Set SLIs/SLOs for ingestion throughput, validation success rate, search latency, and dissemination freshness; manage error budgets to gate releases

Maintain a living risk register and dependency board; run design/operational reviews; institute circuit breakers, feature flags, and runbooks to minimize blast radius during incidents

Embed NIST 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP controls into delivery: policy-as-code, artifact signing/SBOM, KMS/HSM-backed encryption, least-privilege access, OMB M-21-31 logging posture, and audit-ready evidence capture

Ensure Section 508 accessibility

Govern taxonomy/rules versioning (e.g., XBRL/Inline XBRL), data provenance from submission validation dissemination, and automated reconciliation-so corrections are tracked and verifiable

Define interface contracts, SLAs/SLOs, and acceptance criteria for specialized components (taxonomy/rules, search/indexing, scanning)

Drive crisp handoffs and MTTR discipline

Stand up on-call rotations, incident playbooks, post-incident reviews, and capacity/chaos testing

Use OpenTelemetry/Splunk/ELK/Rapid7 (or equivalent) for full-stack visibility

Run a practical Agile/Scrum/SAFe cadence

Instrument the delivery system (lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore) and iterate on golden paths, templates, and guardrails

Qualification

Technical Program ManagementCloud ArchitectureNIST/FISMA/FedRAMP ComplianceAWS GovCloudAgile/Scrum/SAFeData GovernanceIncident ManagementCI/CDLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCollaboration

Required

Due to federal contract requirements candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible for Public Trust (no sponsorship or dual citizenship)

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/IS (or equivalent experience)

10+ years leading large-scale technical programs/projects; 8+ years in engineering/architecture/IT ops roles

Proven leadership of 45+ person multi-disciplinary programs (contractors + FTEs)

Full-lifecycle ownership (scope, schedule, budget) of cloud-hosted, high-traffic services in FedRAMP environments

Demonstrated ability to set and manage SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident response

PMP required (or equivalent PM credentials with readiness to obtain)

Preferred

Direct program leadership with federal financial sector agencies (e.g., SEC, Treasury, CFPB, FDIC, OCC) or SROs with similar rigor

Experience with high-value systems: high-volume filing ingestion, validation/taxonomy services (XBRL/Inline XBRL), and public dissemination at scale

FedRAMP High / IL4-6 experience; hands-on with NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, continuous ATO, policy-as-code, SBOM/SLSA, artifact signing, and zero-trust patterns

Operating knowledge of AWS GovCloud/Azure Government, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Terraform/CloudFormation, Kafka/Kinesis, Aurora/Postgres/DynamoDB, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, S3, CloudFront/WAF, and enterprise identity

Track record achieving 99.99%+ availability for public APIs/bulk feeds; expertise with caching, partitioning, read-only degradation, and active-active failover

Strong grasp of CI/CD, ephemeral environments, blue-green/canary, feature flags, drift detection, and rollback strategy

Relevant certifications: PgMP, CSM/SAFe, AWS/GCP/Azure architect or security certs; formal accessibility training (Section 508/WCAG)