Technical Project Manager

Technical Project ManagerLocation: Santa Barbara County, CA. Duration: Full-Time. Secret Clearance required. Our client is looking for a Senior Program Manager for an exceptional opportunity to join in establishing and growing a new services practice within a technology leader. Our client's team is expanding an already successful Consulting Services practice focused on customization of product suite and the application of subject matter expertise within the national security, defense and civilian sectors. This customer engineering practice has an exponential growth capacity for the team. The Candidate must have a strong technical background and ability to work the full spectrum of the PM work regarding customer coordination and communications. This is a technically oriented program management role with a focus on customer requirements and security-related business processes. PM Experience for large scale projects, project management certification of any sort (PMP preferred)Responsibilities:Drive Systems Integration delivery programs (and supporting projects) from presales proposal input through to delivery acceptance and project closure.Be the hands-on-Program/Project manager for multiple projects.Identify, manage, and mitigate program/project risks.Collaborate with colleagues in Services, product teams, supply-chain, and sales.Develop an adaptable business development program for pro-services to meet growing consultant and customer engineering demands.Work with sales teams to develop additional consulting and customer engineering projects/programs.Experience and Personal Skills:The successful applicant for this role will have 12+ years of relevant experience working in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field with prior responsibilities in program/project management roles for cloud or virtualization systems integration delivery projects.Experience with multi-vendor and software professional services for communication service provider or enterprise customers is preferred.Technically oriented program management experience is necessary.Strength with optical networking technology, network function virtualization, orchestration (MANO), and networking (L2/L3, security, routing protocols, network design) is desired.Strong negotiation skills to work with customers and resource owners.Ability to mentor and lead by influence and collaboration.Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communications skills.Strong quantitative skills.Attention to statement of work details.Customer and partner facing skills.Bring high energy customer-focus to the organization.Self-motivated to drive success based on organizational goals.Bachelors degree (or equivalent work experience). MS or MBA is valuable.Project management certification a plus - PMP certification, project+, ITIL, along with any virtualization and networking technology certifications.Demonstrated skills in desktop applications as well as project management and financial tools.The ability to travel throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) to support customer program objectives is necessary. Occasional Temporary Duty (TDY) to project locations may be requested.Experience with managed services and build-operate-transfer projects is a plus.