Technical Project Manager - United States - 31300 - Maximus

General information

Job Posting Title

Technical Project Manager

Date

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

City

Remote

Country

United States

Working time

Full-time

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 (4) years of experience leading a technical team in a production Environment.

- Experience integrating a range of technologies in a large federal IT environment such as the IRS.

- Knowledge of cloud-based technologies and integration of on-prem to on-cloud migrations.

- Implementation knowledge of AWS, Java, Python, REST API’s, various RDBMS like Oracle, Databricks, RedShift and others.

- Experience with performance optimization of Data pipelines

- Expertise in building CLI based solutions using a variety of available tools

- Knowledge of Databricks and ability to write SQL queries and Python scripts to Query and manipulate data.

- Knowledge of ETL and BI tools and able to understand and support ETL and BI functionalities of the application

- Good problem-solving skills with architectural, design and hands on development experience

- Experience working in and a general understanding of Red Hat Linux OS, or other Unix-like OS

- Experience with Shell scripting

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience building Data pipelines moving data from on-premises to Databricks running on AWS cloud in the IRS environment.

- Expertise with AWS DMS and AWS CLI tools.

- Experience building complex data pipelines using Control-M as the orchestration tool.

- Hands-on implementation experience with data migration, data wrangling and data manipulation

- Proven experience with using COTS products and custom scripting to build ETL pipelines.

- Prior implementation and development knowledge of Bash scripts
- Excellent programming language skills in Python on Linux environment
- Understanding of application and transport layer security
- Knowledge of SQL and performance tuning technique
- Experience with Jenkins and automated testing techniques
- Familiar with Agile / Scrum
- Prior implementation of containerization using Docker, Open Shift or AWS EC2 instances

Additional requirements as per Contract/Client:

- Candidates must meet requirements to obtain and maintain an IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance (active IRS Moderate Risk MBI clearance is a plus).

- Candidates must be a US Citizen or a Legal Permanent Resident (Green Card status) for at least three (3) years, and Federal Tax compliant

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field required.
- 7-10 years of relevant professional experience required.

- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.

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.

Pay Transparency

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.