Technical Program Manager

Description & Requirements

Role Summary

Maximus is hiring a deeply technical, forward-thinking Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead a large-scale, mission-critical federal financial program that serves millions of public users.

You will own strategy - delivery - operations for a secure, high-availability platform in a hybrid FedRAMP environment-driving ingestion, validation, search, and dissemination of high-value financial data with 99.99% uptime expectations.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on credibility with modern cloud architectures, NIST/FISMA/FedRAMP control automation, and experience working with federal financial sector agencies or closely related regulators.

What You'll Do


* Program Leadership & Strategy: Define and deliver a multi-year roadmap aligned to agency mission-prioritizing resilience, performance, and user outcomes.

Translate policy and regulatory drivers into measurable technical objectives, OKRs, and SLOs.


* End-to-End Delivery: Orchestrate complex, cross-functional work across 20-40 services (ingestion, validation/rules engines, taxonomy services, indexing/search, dissemination).

Drive schedules, budgets, resourcing, and critical path with crisp dependency management.


* Technical Authority: Lead deep dives with architects/engineers on RedHat OpenShift Platform, AWS GovClou, event/streaming patterns, storage/indexing, API design, observability, and cost/performance trade-offs.

Champion patterns like blue-green/canary, idempotent pipelines, and strangler-fig modernizations.


* Regulatory Reliability: Engineer for market-hour spikes and public traffic surges.

Set SLIs/SLOs for ingestion throughput, validation success rate, search latency, and dissemination freshness; manage error budgets to gate releases.


* Risk & Dependency Management: Maintain a living risk register and dependency board; run design/operational reviews; institute circuit breakers, feature flags, and runbooks to minimize blast radius during incidents.


* Compliance & Security by Design: Embed NIST 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP controls into delivery: policy-as-code, artifact signing/SBOM, KMS/HSM-backed encryption, least-privilege access, OMB M-21-31 logging posture, and audit-ready evidence capture.

Ensure Section 508 accessibility.


* Data Quality & Lineage: Govern taxonomy/rules versioning (e.g., XBRL/Inline XBRL), data provenance from submission - validation - dissemination, and automated reconciliation-so corrections are tracked and verifiable.


* Vendor/Subcontractor Leadership: Define interface contracts, SLAs/SLOs, and acceptance criteria for specialized components (taxonomy/rules, search/indexing, scanning).

Drive crisp handoffs and MTTR discipline.


* Operational Excellence: Stand up on-call rotations, incident playbooks, post-incident reviews, and capacity/chaos testing.

Use OpenTelemetry/Splunk/ELK/Rapid7 (or equivalent) for full-stack visibility.


* Agile at Scale & Continuous Improvement: Run a practica...