Head of Technical Programme Management

Technical Program Manager (US - Hybrid)
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The professional services landscape continues to evolve. Do you want to work with other skilled and agile practitioners who thrive on challenge and growth? Our teams cut through complexity and deliver real impact. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager who will serve as the technical and delivery lead for assigned workstreams supporting NHTSA's technology area, ensuring the team delivers high-quality IT services and solutions that align with mission needs, contractual requirements, and customer expectations. This role combines hands-on technical depth with strong program management discipline to lead technical efforts across cloud and on-premises environments, guide solutioning discussions with federal stakeholders and delivery teams, and translate customer issues, requests, and priorities into executable plans. The Technical Program Manager will allocate the right technical resources to the right work, drive issues to resolution, connect the dots across federal stakeholders, and maintain strong in-person engagement with the customer 1-2 days per week.
Lead technical program delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring work is planned, staffed, executed, and completed on time, within scope, and to the quality standards expected by NHTSA and the program leadership team.
Serve as the primary technical integrator between customer stakeholders, program leadership, and delivery teams, connecting requirements, priorities, dependencies, and risks across organizational boundaries.
Provide technical leadership across cloud, infrastructure, application, data, cybersecurity, and operations activities, with the ability to direct technical efforts regardless of the platforms, tools, or environments in use.
Lead technical discussions, solution reviews, tradeoff analyses, and decision-making sessions with both customer and contractor teams to drive clarity, alignment, and forward progress.
Monitor delivery performance, risks, issues, dependencies, and technical blockers, and take ownership of driving them through resolution before they impact mission delivery.
Partner with the Sr Program Manager to support planning, execution tracking, risk management, stakeholder communications, and continuous improvement across the contract.
Ensure deliverables, technical recommendations, operational practices, and team outputs are aligned with contract requirements, federal standards, and customer expectations.
Foster a culture of accountability, responsiveness, collaboration, and quality by setting high expectations for execution and modeling professionalism, initiative, and follow-through.
Maintain a strong on-site customer presence 1-2 days per week to build trust, strengthen collaboration, and proactively identify opportunities to improve service delivery and mission support.
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; 15+ years of experience leading complex IT programs, projects, or technical delivery efforts in federal environments, with demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams and mission-focused stakeholders.

• Ability and willingness to engage in person with the customer in person, 1-2 days per week and operate effectively in a highly collaborative federal client environment.
• Experience building teams, managing projects, and delivering solutions/products using one or both of the following technology stacks:
• Tech Stack #1: AWS cloud services (serverless and traditional cloud architectures), AI/DevOps tools (Jenkins, Atlassian suite including Jira and Confluence), and network/application security solutions (Okta, Akamai, Palo Alto).
• Tech Stack #2: Google Cloud Platform (GCP, Google Workspace, Gemini), AI/DevOps tools (Jenkins, Atlassian suite including Jira and Confluence), and network/application security solutions (Okta, Akamai, Palo Alto).

Strong technical depth with the ability to understand, direct, and oversee work across cloud environments, enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, systems integration, operations, and support services.
Proven ability to engage credibly in technical discussions with customers, architects, engineers, analysts, and operations staff, and to guide teams toward practical, supportable, and scalable solutions.
Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, including the ability to connect the dots across federal offices, align competing priorities, and build consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution discipline, including planning work, managing dependencies, tracking progress, mitigating risks, and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes.
Experience working in Agile, hybrid, or operational delivery environments, with the ability to lead teams through evolving priorities while maintaining structure, accountability, and momentum.
PMP, Scrum, SAFe, ITIL, cloud, cybersecurity, or other relevant technical/program certifications are preferred.

Servant Leader - You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture.
Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology, and compliance. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success.
Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.
Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
Flexible work arrangements

• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• Eleven (11) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• FORCE - Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

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