Technical Program Manager

Overview

LMI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to support efforts for Department of the Army clients. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience and holds a PMP and is scrum master certified. Candidate will have experience managing complex government program management efforts that include strategy, policy, and agile software development. Candidate should have experience with Army logistics and communications systems as well as Army Enterprise IT portfolios. This position requires a DOD SECRET (or higher) clearance.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

• Drive day to day management and oversight of contract program management activities in a dynamic, fast paced client organization.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to drive results for Army logistics and enterprise IT strategy, policy, performance, and governance efforts.
• Support contract management success including program team development, engagement, and quality delivery.
• Establish and execute an effective team operating tempo to ensure delivery of the highest quality work product and deliverables to yield client success.
• Engage with LMI corporate leadership and enterprises services to ensure program delivery achieves desired outcomes and objectives.
• Develop product vision and roadmap and working with software development and product teams to deliver value against defined roadmap.
• Own the program-level product vision and roadmap, working with stakeholders to develop epics and features to define team-level product roadmaps and backlogs. 
• Prepares for and participates in Program Increment planning and builds, edits, and maintains the program’s product backlog during program increment execution.
• Leads and coaches individual Product Owners from a portfolio of product teams to ensure delivery of business value in line with product vision.
• Works with Technical Leadership and Release Management to ensure continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of working software.
• Represents the customer with the ability to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and work to drive features to acceptance throughout the agile software development life cycle. 
• Works directly with internal and external stakeholders, including senior staff and managers, and with focused product development teams to ensure successful translation of requirements into high-quality product deliverables.
• Manages register of stakeholders, including end users, legacy system business owners, functional representatives/SMEs, and technical partners.

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: master’s degree in business, administration, computer science, management information systems, engineering, or a related field and 3–10 years of directly related experience. 
• Clearance: DOD SECRET or higher
• PMP Certification.
• Scrum Master Certification.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in program management project management, product management, system engineering, information technology (IT) management, business analysis, computer science, or other related fields, preferably in large DOD programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects with multiple divisions and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and complex program implementation.
• Ability to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine requirements, communicating milestones and visions to the customer and technical delivery team(s).
• Experience developing products at an enterprise scale, with large and complex stakeholder networks and interfaces with external systems.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand complex business requirements and develop a product vision and roadmap to deliver incremental business value.
• Ability to define and deploy, in coordination with Release Management, minimally viable products (MVPs) and minimally viable capability releases (MVCRs) in line with DODI 5000.87.
• Experience leading large-scale user experience (UX) research efforts and incorporating UX and HCD principles into product vision, roadmap, and backlog.
• Experience bringing web application products to production, through continuous delivery, and working with strategic communications and change management personnel to drive adoption.
• Experience leading and coaching a team of Product Owners across a portfolio of teams to ensure delivery of business value aligned to product vision.
• Experience creating detailed reports and presentations to senior executives and key stakeholders.
• Experience developing products in an agile framework and leveraging an agile project management tool.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

• Experience with and/or strong understanding of Army logistics and communications systems.
• Experience with and/or strong understanding of Army cloud and software development ecosystem.
• Experience developing products using SAFe and incorporating various agile frameworks into SAFe (e.g., scrum, Kanban, LeanXP, etc.).
• Experience with agile project management and development in GitLab.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements for a U.S. Government security clearance. Only US Citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, LMI will only consider applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances, due to the nature of the work.