Technical Project Manager

Description & Requirements

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our team supporting an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client.

The Technical Project Manager will work with/lead a team of Data engineers and ETL specialists to build and maintain Data Pipelines from On-Premises to Databricks.

The PM will also be responsible for providing SME level technical expertise for optimizing ETL Pipelines, performance tuning of queries and mentoring of junior and mid-level team staff.

Position is remote within US.

Ideal candidates will be in Lanham MD or Farmers Branch or Austin TX areas.

Local candidates may attend meetings occasionally at the IRS facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with client/customer to create technical strategies and frameworks.
- Develop, implement and manage enterprise IT infrastructure.
- Provide expert knowledge, support and guidance to business and technology teams and facilitate the collaborative development of IT solutions.
- Recommend alternative technologies or improvements to enhance information systems to support organizational goals.
- Prepare milestone status reports and deliveries/presentations on the system concept to colleagues, subordinates, and end-user representatives.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Initiate, plan, document, manage and maintain technical projects.

- Lead and guide the work of technical staff and serve as the liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.

- Create, update, and manage high-quality project documentation including executive briefings and reports.

- Develop and maintain project schedule(s).

- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise technical project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

- Lead the team in production and pre-production troubleshooting sessions to identify issues, performance bottlenecks and formulate a strategy to remediate as needed.

- Ensure team delivers all project artifacts as discussed and agreed upon with the IRS client.

- Maintain direct responsibility and ownership in developing and deploying components or complete application functionality using Databricks, Informatica,
SQL and other tools.

- Design software components from business requirements in collaboration with other team members

- Support high level Architecture design.

Provide technical leadership for developing highly performant, robust and reliable solutions that scale.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

-Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university required; an additional four (4) years of related work experience can substitute for a degree

- At least Ten (ten) years of hands-on experience working with databases/ETL applications building data pipelines.

- Possess an active IRS MBI

- Minimum of two (2) years' Experience working with IRS systems and data such as IRTF, IRMF, CADE2, IMF, BMF, BRTF and others.

- Minimum of four (...