Technical Project Manager

540 is seeking a Technical Project Manager to support a mission-critical federal health data modernization initiative. The team is building and maturing a modern data platform that brings together information from diverse defense and federal systems through scalable data pipelines, APIs, and reusable data products.

The environment spans Databricks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and on-premises infrastructure, giving team members the opportunity to solve complex integration challenges, modernize legacy capabilities, and help shape a growing data platform ecosystem supporting critical health missions.

540 is a forward-thinking company that the government turns to in order to #getshitdone. We don’t just talk about innovation – we deliver it. We break down barriers, build impactful technology, and solve mission-critical problems.

• Lead day-to-day planning and delivery across data platform, integration, API, and data product workstreams, serving as a key coordination point across the customer, partner organizations, internal stakeholders, and technical team
• Partner with customer and technical leaders to translate mission priorities into actionable roadmaps, milestones, backlogs, user stories, and delivery plans
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies—including planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives—and help teams continuously improve how they work
• Maintain an integrated view of scope, schedule, capacity, progress, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and decisions
• Coordinate commitments and escalations across organizations while helping teams remove delivery blockers
• Ensure technical teams understand mission priorities and stakeholders have clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs through concise reporting, metrics, and briefings
• Help teams balance near-term delivery needs with long-term platform, modernization, and reuse objectives
• Support the management of 540’s federal health customer account by maintaining awareness of contract scope, commitments, key contacts, partner relationships, and emerging customer priorities
• Represent 540 as a trusted delivery partner by building a strong network across federal customers, partner organizations, and internal teams
• Partner with 540’s Growth team to identify, qualify, and shape new opportunities, bringing customer and delivery insights into capture, solutioning, and proposal efforts

• 8+ years of experience in project management, technical delivery, Agile leadership, product operations, or a related role
• Experience leading software, data, cloud, platform, or other technically complex delivery efforts
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand architectures, data flows, system integrations, engineering dependencies, and delivery risks
• Experience coordinating delivery across government customers, partner organizations, internal leadership, and multidisciplinary technical teams
• Strong working knowledge of Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and Kanban, and experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience managing roadmaps, delivery plans, backlogs, milestones, multiple workstreams, risks, dependencies, and release objectives
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, including the ability to align priorities, manage expectations, and drive decisions
• Ability to build trusted customer and partner relationships while connecting successful technical delivery to broader account objectives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical teams and mission, program, and executive stakeholders
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, create structure, exercise sound judgment, and drive teams toward measurable outcomes

• PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or a comparable project management or Agile certification
• Experience supporting modern data platforms, analytics products, APIs, or cloud modernization initiatives using technologies such as Databricks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud
• Experience supporting federal account growth, capture, proposals, business development, or customer engagement
• Experience working within multi-organization delivery models involving government customers and teaming partners
• Experience working with DoW or other federal government customers
• Experience supporting healthcare, military health, or other regulated and sensitive data environments

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