Project Manager (Clearance Required)

The Project Manager will own day-to-day scope, schedule, budget, and resourcing; serve as the primary interface with the customer for requirements and status; and ensure that engineering work is properly defined, tracked, validated, and verified against the contract statement of work. The Project Manager shall act as a scrum master / product owner / business-analyst hybrid, comfortable translating government customer requirements into clear, semi-technical artifacts that engineers can implement, and equally comfortable enforcing the discipline required to deliver on a firm fixed price and/or Other Transaction Authority (OTA) engagement. Key Responsibilities Own day-to-day scope, schedule, and budget. Allocate resources across the team and assign tickets to engineers and other contributors in line with program priorities. Run the team’s agile cadences (standups, planning, refinement, reviews) and serve as scrum master / product owner hybrid for day-to-day execution. Track progress against milestones and surface risks, blockers, and dependencies early. Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact with the government customer for status, coordination, and requirements clarification. Elicit, clarify, and document customer requirements—translating them into clear, semi-technical artifacts (user stories, acceptance criteria, specifications) that engineers can implement. Maintain a living requirements traceability matrix that ties delivered work back to the contract statement of work. Build and sustain credibility with the customer by speaking the customer’s language and operating fluently within their processes. Perform validation and verification of completed work to ensure deliverables meet documented requirements and customer expectations before release. Produce monthly status reports and other contractually required documentation. Define and track internal KPIs and program metrics; Maintain a culture of continually tying day-to-day work back to the contract statement of work, particularly given the realities of firm fixed price and OTA engagements. Active Top Secret Clearance Required Minimum five (5) years of project management experience, with significant time spent delivering software programs. Demonstrated experience as a scrum master, product owner, or hybrid agile delivery lead on modern software development teams, with the judgment to apply agile and product practices rather than defaulting to heavy waterfall documentation. Strong business-analyst skill set: proven ability to elicit requirements from customers and translate them into clear, semi-technical artifacts that engineers can implement. Experience owning scope, schedule, budget, and resourcing on a software program, including assigning and tracking work at the ticket level. Working knowledge of government systems and federal contracting environments. Familiarity with the cybersecurity frameworks under which federal software systems are deployed and accredited. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interface professionally with government customers and translate between customer and engineering audiences Prior experience supporting Department of Defense programs, including familiarity with DoW project management conventions, terminology, and customer expectations. Experience delivering on firm fixed price contracts and/or Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements, including managing scope discipline and requirements traceability over the life of the contract. PMP certification or equivalent program/project management credential. Experience supporting AI/ML, Test & Evaluation, or related missions Background that bridges traditional project management with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering).