Staff Technical Program Manager - Cleared/Security

- Active Clearance: Must hold an active Top Secret security clearance upon hire.

- Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area .

- Ability and willingness to work on-site out of a local D.C.-area SCIF up to 5 days a week during initial platform buildouts, accreditation pushes, or critical deployment phases.

- Ability to travel locally across the D.C. region to the Pentagon and customer SCIFs as required.

- Proven Technical Program Management & TS Cloud Experience: Direct experience project managing complex security programs, including unclassified enterprise compliance initiatives alongside the technical building and accreditation of cloud platforms in Top Secret IC / classified regions (e.g., AWS C2S/SC2S/Top Secret, Azure Secret/Top Secret, or air-gapped high-side deployments).

- Proven Expertise: 7+ years of experience (with Bachelor's degree or 5+ years with advanced degree) in security and technical program/project management. Ideally, at a fast-paced, cloud-native organization.

- Strategic Ownership: Demonstrated success in leading high-stakes security compliance initiatives (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD IL5/IL6, NIST 800-53, CMMC, PCI, HIPAA) from inception to authorization or market.

- Complexity Management: Experience navigating projects with intricate technical dependencies, multiple stakeholders, and competing constraints with geo-distributed teams.

- Executive Presence: Ability to influence and communicate effectively across the spectrum, from deep-dive technical discussions with engineers to high-level briefings for senior leadership and government stakeholders.

- Agility & Continuous Learning: A proven track record of rapidly mastering new processes, methodologies, technologies, and security frameworks to meet evolving business needs.

- Communication Excellence: Superb verbal and written skills, with a knack for translating complex project data into clear, actionable insights and documentation.

- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

- Federal Experience Preferred: Experience supporting U.S. Government, Defense, Intelligence Community, or other highly regulated environments is strongly preferred.

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