Technical Project Manager

Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) is a dynamic IT and Management Consulting firm based in the Washington, DC area. Founded in 1996, Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) has evolved into a company of highly qualified professionals that provides full-cycle IT Consultant and Management support in both the private and public sectors.

Horizon’s culture is based on our core values, and we PRIDE ourselves on a diverse, employee, and family-centric approach.

Seeking a hands-on Senior Project Manager to lead federal Appian case management modernization delivery and contract execution. This role owns schedules, technical team coordination, Government stakeholder communications, contractual reporting, financial controls, and Agile/SAFe delivery across planning, requirements, development, testing, deployment, and production support. The individual serves as the primary Government point of contact for day-to-day contract management.

• →Lead end-to-end Appian delivery for multiple Appian Applications, including release planning, deployments, and O&M coordination.
• →Run biweekly sprint planning, daily Scrum, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and Change Control Board (CCB) presentations/approvals in the Federal Agile framework.
• →Lead requirements elicitation and business process discussions; ensure JIRA epics, stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria are actionable and development-ready.
• →Maintain integrated schedule, PM workbook, risk/issue registers, burn-up/burn-down charts, cost variance, burn-rate dashboards, personnel reports, and OCIO-approved PPM artifacts.
• →Prepare monthly invoice details, individual and labor-category hour breakdowns, financial forecasts, and earned value/performance reporting.
• →Coordinate with FPM, COR, Product Owners, OCIO, and other vendors; manage multi-vendor dependencies, risks, milestones, and executive status updates.
• →Ensure required Appian certifications, OCIO cybersecurity/privacy/Section 508 training, and compliance with governance, release, and documentation controls.
• →Lead transition-in/out, Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) planning, and structured knowledge transfer.

• Minimum five (5) years managing large-scale Appian projects in a federal environment using SAFe Agile.
• Active PMP or PMI-ACP, and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification.
• Hands-on proficiency with JIRA and Confluence; strong Agile delivery, sprint metrics, and release management experience.
• Experience managing federal contract deliverables, staffing, schedules, financial reporting, and Government stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent leadership, executive communication, risk management, and requirements facilitation skills.

• Five to eight years of Federal experience; familiarity with building/managing multiple large scale Appian applications with 2,000+ users.
• Experience with working/managing Multi-Tenant Appian Platform or comparable federal Appian environments, including production deployment and O&M.
• Knowledge of SDLCM stage gates, approved PPM tools, CCB governance, and multi-vendor IPT delivery.
• Experience supporting FISMA-compliant solutions and Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.