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Sr. Technical Project Manager

Savan

Job Location:

Washington, AR - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 160000 - 190000

Posted: 24 October 2026 (8 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 21 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Savan Group is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager Application Development
to lead delivery of a complex federal enterprise application supporting records and information management business processes. This role is intended for an experienced technical project manager who can manage a mature Agile software development environment lead sprint and release execution coordinate technical and business stakeholders and maintain disciplined delivery across development testing DevOps deployment and production support.

The Senior Technical Project Manager will manage day-to-day project delivery including sprint planning daily standups backlog management release planning risks and issues resource coordination testing readiness deployment coordination production issue tracking and client communications. The successful candidate must have strong Agile/Scrum experience and sufficient technical understanding of Java-based applications and AWS environments to effectively oversee developers and coordinate DevOps engineers user acceptance testing security and other technical resources.

The application supports federal records and information management functions. The Senior Technical Project Manager does not need to be a records and information management (RIM) subject matter expert but must have enough RIM enterprise content management document management or information governance experience to understand the business domain and work effectively with RIM SMEs and client stakeholders. The role requires exceptional attention to detail strong analytical skills disciplined follow-through and excellent written and verbal communication.

Role Responsibilities:

Lead delivery of a federal enterprise Java application across requirements development testing UAT deployment production support and ongoing operations and maintenance.
Own Agile/Scrum delivery activities including sprint planning daily standups backlog refinement sprint reviews retrospectives and release planning.
Manage sprint readiness commitments capacity backlog health delivery metrics impediments dependencies and completion trends.
Work with product owners client stakeholders technical leads and business analysts to prioritize the backlog and ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are ready for development.
Develop and maintain project plans sprint and release schedules resource assignments risks and issues decisions action items and dependency tracking.
Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary delivery team that may include Java developers architects testers DevOps engineers business analysts RIM specialists and other technical resources.
Coordinate development system and regression testing UAT defect resolution deployment and production-readiness activities.
Coordinate release readiness across development testing UAT security accessibility DevOps and production support ensuring unresolved dependencies and risks are identified and addressed before deployment.
Support coordination of AWS environments CI/CD activities deployments infrastructure dependencies application monitoring and production issue resolution.
Track and drive resolution of risks issues defects production incidents technical dependencies and cross-team impediments.
Analyze project application testing defect operational and delivery data to identify trends assess risks investigate issues and support data-driven recommendations.
Translate business technical RIM security accessibility and operational requirements into actionable development work and implementation plans.
Review project sprint release and client-facing documentation for accuracy completeness consistency and quality.
Prepare clear project status reports sprint and release reporting executive briefings recommendations meeting materials and other client communications.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Bachelors degree (BA or BS) from an accredited college or university.
U.S. Citizenship and the ability to acquire and maintain a Public Trust or other client-required suitability determination are required.
8 years of professional experience in information technology software development delivery project or program management management consulting or a closely related field.
At least 5 years of experience managing software development projects or major technical workstreams including responsibility for planning schedules deliverables risks and issues client communications resource coordination and team performance.
At least 3 years of direct experience managing Scrum-based software development delivery including sprint planning standups backlog refinement sprint reviews retrospectives and release planning.
Demonstrated experience applying Agile and Scrum methodologies in a production software development environment.
Strong experience using Jira or a comparable Agile project management platform to manage backlogs user stories sprints defects releases dependencies and delivery metrics.
Experience managing the development and delivery of Java-based enterprise applications with sufficient technical understanding to effectively coordinate developers architects testers DevOps engineers and other technical personnel.
Experience supporting or managing enterprise applications hosted in AWS including familiarity with cloud environments infrastructure dependencies deployments monitoring and production operations.
Experience managing a mature enterprise application environment that includes enhancement development defect resolution testing release management production support and ongoing operations and maintenance.
Familiarity with enterprise application architecture APIs and integrations relational and NoSQL databases enterprise search technologies AWS infrastructure messaging services and CI/CD concepts sufficient to understand technical dependencies and delivery risks.
Experience performing data analysis to support project and technical decision-making including analysis of application testing defect operational performance or delivery data.
Experience supporting records and information management enterprise content management document management or related information governance systems with sufficient understanding of records lifecycle concepts to manage technical delivery and work effectively with RIM SMEs.
Exceptional attention to detail organization follow-through and quality control.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate technical and delivery issues clearly with technical teams business stakeholders senior leadership and federal clients.
Strong analytical problem-solving and critical-thinking skills including the ability to identify dependencies assess risk challenge assumptions and drive issues to resolution.
Ability to work a schedule aligned with Eastern Time (ET) business hours regardless of U.S. work location.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience managing enterprise content management electronic records management document management or comparable information management applications.
Experience supporting federal records management stakeholders or a federal Records Management Program Office.
Familiarity with federal records management requirements and NARA guidance.
Experience managing Java applications deployed in AWS cloud environments.
Experience supporting federal software development environments with security Section 508 accessibility formal testing and documentation requirements.
Experience managing production support incident resolution application monitoring and operational risk.
PMP CSM PSM PMI-ACP or comparable project management or Agile certification.
Federal consulting experience.

Work Location and Schedule:
Hybrid Washington DC

Application Process
Submit your application to the link on this selected for interviews will be notified by email or phone.

Compensation
The anticipated salary range for this position is $160K$190K. This range represents Savan Groups good faith estimate at the time of posting and is not a guarantee of compensation.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including relevant experience skills education certifications internal equity market conditions and geographic location. For positions supporting federal contracts compensation may also be subject to applicable labor category requirements contract terms funding and other contract-specific provisions. As a result actual compensation may vary from the posted salary range.

EEO including disability and veterans.
Savan is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a workplace free of discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy) gender identity sexual orientation national origin age (40 or older) marital status disability genetic information status as a protected veteran or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request reasonable accommodation for the employment process please email your request to more information about our company please visit our website at .

Required Experience:

Senior Manager

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