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Job Posting Title
Technical Program Manager
Date
Thursday, July 31, 2025
City
Mclean
State
VA
Country
United States
Working time
Full-time

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 practical Agile/Scrum/SAFe cadence. Instrument the delivery system (lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore) and iterate on golden paths, templates, and guardrails.


What Success Looks Like


  • 90 days: Program baseline established—SLOs/SLIs and error budgets defined; dependency map and risk register in place; ATO evidence pipeline and 508 plan integrated into delivery.
  • 180 days: First zero-downtime taxonomy/rules update shipped; incident playbooks exercised; golden paths and policy-as-code guardrails adopted by all teams.
  • 12 months: Demonstrable improvements in p95 latency, ingestion success rate, dissemination freshness, and MTTR; successful audits with automated evidence; two+ legacy components retired via strangler-fig.

Why Maximus

Join a mission-first team modernizing critical public services at national scale. You’ll partner directly with federal financial stakeholders, shape the technical agenda, and deliver measurable outcomes for millions of users—safely, reliably, and fast.


Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS238, M5, Band 9
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements: 

  • Due to federal contract requirements candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible for Public Trust (no sponsorship or dual citizenship).
  • Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering/IS (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ years leading large-scale technical programs/projects; 8+ years in engineering/architecture/IT ops roles.
  • Proven leadership of 75+ person multi-disciplinary programs (contractors + FTEs).
  • Full-lifecycle ownership (scope, schedule, budget) of cloud-hosted, high-traffic services in FedRAMP environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to set and manage SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
  • PMP required (or equivalent PM credentials with readiness to obtain).

Preferred Skills and Qualifications: 

  • Direct program leadership with federal financial sector agencies (e.g., SEC, Treasury, CFPB, FDIC, OCC) or SROs with similar rigor.
  • Experience with high-value systems: high-volume filing ingestion, validation/taxonomy services (XBRL/Inline XBRL), and public dissemination at scale.
  • FedRAMP High / IL4-6 experience; hands-on with NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, continuous ATO, policy-as-code, SBOM/SLSA, artifact signing, and zero-trust patterns.
  • Operating knowledge of AWS GovCloud/Azure Government, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Terraform/CloudFormation, Kafka/Kinesis, Aurora/Postgres/DynamoDB, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, S3, CloudFront/WAF, and enterprise identity.
  • Track record achieving 99.99%+ availability for public APIs/bulk feeds; expertise with caching, partitioning, read-only degradation, and active-active failover.
  • Strong grasp of CI/CD, ephemeral environments, blue-green/canary, feature flags, drift detection, and rollback strategy.
  • Relevant certifications: PgMP, CSM/SAFe, AWS/GCP/Azure architect or security certs; formal accessibility training (Section 508/WCAG).


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Minimum Requirements
TCS238, M5, Band 9
EEO Statement
Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.
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Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
Minimum Salary
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180,000.00
Maximum Salary
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220,000.00