Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal based in the United States. We are seeking an experienced Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead complex technical programs supporting federal, government, and national security initiatives. In this role, you will oversee the deployment, integration, and ongoing operation of advanced AI platforms across secure and regulated environments. You will collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, security, product, and government-facing teams to translate complex requirements into reliable technical solutions. Your responsibilities will span program planning, infrastructure readiness, security compliance, release management, and operational support. You will drive cross-functional execution, resolve technical dependencies, and ensure delivery commitments translate into measurable customer outcomes. This is an opportunity to shape scalable delivery practices while contributing to the adoption of innovative AI technologies in mission-critical environments. Accountabilities You will lead end-to-end technical program execution across federal and partner organizations, ensuring secure deployments, effective collaboration, and reliable operational outcomes. Key responsibilities include: - Own technical program delivery across federal and partner initiatives, translating complex requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, milestones, ownership, and delivery plans. - Establish and maintain a centralized intake process and prioritized backlog in collaboration with Product and partner stakeholders. - Coordinate secure deployments across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments, ensuring infrastructure, networking, access, secrets, and integrations are ready. - Work closely with security and governance teams to incorporate RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements into delivery plans, remediation activities, and approval processes. - Manage release readiness and software handoffs, including version compatibility, vulnerability scans, software bills of materials, release documentation, deployment guides, and rollback procedures.

- Oversee ongoing support and sustainment for federal deployments, coordinating patching, hardening, upgrades, security findings, and operational commitments. - Lead technical issue triage and escalations across engineering and platform teams, driving resolution of integration, performance, reliability, and observability challenges. - Develop repeatable onboarding and operational processes through runbooks, architecture documentation, training materials, and knowledge transfer. - Facilitate planning sessions, backlog reviews, delivery assessments, and risk escalations while providing stakeholders with clear visibility into progress, capacity, dependencies, and trade-offs. - Identify recurring partner requirements and communicate opportunities for improvements to the core platform roadmap. - At Staff level, independently lead complex cross-functional programs and deliver measurable operational outcomes. - At Senior Staff level, oversee a portfolio of interdependent programs, influence strategic roadmap and investment decisions, and establish scalable delivery practices across partner organizations. Requirements: The ideal candidate combines extensive technical program management experience with strong engineering judgment, stakeholder management capabilities, and an understanding of secure technology environments. Required qualifications include: - U. S. citizenship and the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U. S. government security clearance, as required by assigned programs.