Transition Technical Lead

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Position Title: Transition Technical Lead

Location: Hybrid, Washington, DC Metro Area

Program: SEC Legacy EDGAR Operations and Maintenance

Clearance: Public Trust (or ability to obtain)

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Transition Technical Lead to lead all technical aspects of the transition-in and transition-out activities for the SEC Legacy EDGAR program. The Transition Technical Lead will be responsible for assessing the existing technical environment, overseeing knowledge transfer, evaluating system architectures and dependencies, validating operational readiness, and ensuring a seamless transition of systems, environments, tools, infrastructure, and support processes with minimal risk to SEC operations.

Working closely with the Program Manager, Transition Manager, Operations Manager, ISS Help Desk, infrastructure teams, developers, cybersecurity personnel, and SEC stakeholders, this individual will serve as the principal technical authority throughout the transition period.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Transition Leadership

• Lead all technical transition planning, coordination, and execution activities.
• Develop and maintain the Technical Transition Plan and transition schedule.
• Establish technical readiness criteria, milestones, and acceptance checkpoints.
• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, applications, databases, interfaces, and operational support functions.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison with SEC stakeholders and incumbent technical teams.

Environment & Infrastructure Assessment

• Evaluate existing Legacy EDGAR production, test, development, and disaster recovery environments.
• Assess system architectures, hosting environments, network configurations, integrations, and dependencies.
• Validate infrastructure inventories, configuration baselines, and operational procedures.
• Identify technical risks, gaps, and operational vulnerabilities.

Knowledge Transfer & Documentation

• Lead technical knowledge transfer sessions with incumbent personnel.
• Review and validate system documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Ensure critical institutional knowledge is captured and transferred to incoming technical staff.
• Establish technical knowledge repositories and transition artifacts.

Operational Readiness

• Verify monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident management capabilities.
• Assess support workflows, escalation procedures, and operational processes.
• Validate backup, recovery, and continuity of operations capabilities.
• Support operational readiness reviews and technical rehearsals.

Technical Risk Management

• Identify technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and transition challenges.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Maintain technical risk and issue logs.
• Escalate critical technical concerns to program leadership and SEC stakeholders.

Security & Compliance

• Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to ensure continuity of security operations.
• Validate access management procedures, account provisioning, and security controls.
• Support compliance with SEC security policies and federal regulatory requirements.
• Participate in system security reviews and transition-related audits.

Operations & Support Integration

• Coordinate transition activities across DevSecOps, system administration, database administration, networking, and help desk teams.
• Ensure support processes, ticketing systems, monitoring tools, and reporting mechanisms are operational.
• Facilitate establishment of steady-state support capabilities.
• Validate production support and incident response readiness.

Reporting & Governance

• Present technical transition status, risks, and readiness assessments to program leadership.
• Develop technical dashboards, metrics, and executive reports.
• Support weekly and monthly transition governance meetings.
• Track technical transition deliverables and acceptance criteria.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience supporting complex federal IT systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience serving in a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Infrastructure Lead, or Chief Engineer role.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical transition efforts for large-scale federal contracts.
• Experience supporting production operations, maintenance, and modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architectures, infrastructure operations, application support, and systems integration.
• Experience managing technical risks, dependencies, and operational readiness activities.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting SEC systems, EDGAR, or financial regulatory platforms.
• Experience transitioning mission-critical government systems.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment processes.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or similar operational tools.
• AWS, Azure, Security+, CISSP, ITIL, or related certifications.
• Experience supporting FISMA, NIST, and federal cybersecurity requirements.

Key Competencies

• Technical Transition Management
• Systems Architecture
• Infrastructure Operations
• Application Support
• Operational Readiness
• Knowledge Transfer
• Technical Risk Management
• Production Operations
• Systems Integration
• DevSecOps
• Cybersecurity Coordination
• Technical Leadership

Success Measures

The successful Transition Technical Lead will:

• Complete all technical transition activities on schedule.
• Ensure comprehensive transfer of technical and operational knowledge.
• Validate operational readiness prior to service assumption.
• Minimize technical and operational transition risks.
• Maintain uninterrupted support for Legacy EDGAR mission operations.
• Ensure all environments, systems, interfaces, and support processes are fully operational at transition completion.