{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"de15bd8d1c1edbc63e2cac4b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de15bd8d1c1edbc63e2cac4b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de15bd8d1c1edbc63e2cac4b","title":"Technical Program Manager (Hybrid)","description":"Date: Aug 19, 2026\n\nLocation: Columbia, MD, Maryland, United States\n\n#job-location.job-location-inline { display: inline; }\n\nCompany: HII's Mission Technologies division\n\nEnlighten, honored as a Top Workplace from USA Today, is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, with expertise in cloud-based services, software and systems engineering, cyber capabilities, and data science. Enlighten provides continued innovation and proactivity in meeting our customers’ greatest challenges.\n\nWe recognize that the most effective environment for your projects doesn’t always look the same. Our hybrid work approach ensures that you can make lasting relationships with your team and collaborate in-person to get the job done—while having the flexibility to work from home when needed to achieve focused results.\n\nWhy Enlighten?\n\nAt Enlighten, our team’s unwavering work ethic, top talent and celebration of innovative ideas have helped us thrive. We know that our employees are essential to our company’s success, so we seek to take care of you as much as you take care of us. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package:\n• 100% paid employee premium for healthcare, vision and dental plans.\n• 10% 401k benefit.\n• Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays.\n• Education/training allowances.\n\nAnticipated Salary Range: $145,317.00 - $215,000.00. The salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, Enlighten takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function, internal equity and a candidate's education or training, work experience, certifications and key skills. Occasionally positions/roles may include additional non-recurrent compensation and will be addressed by the recruiter during the interview process.\n\nJob Description\n\nEnlighten is seeking an experienced and mission-focused Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive the day-to-day execution and delivery of our next-generation Data Lakehouse platform—a system that empowers Department of War (DoW) cyber operators with unparalleled data access and analytical capabilities at massive scale.\n\nIn this role, you are the connective tissue across our Application, Data, and Infrastructure engineering teams, responsible for turning a prioritized roadmap into shipped, deployed, and accredited software on a predictable cadence. You will own the release train end to end—managing cross-team dependencies, schedules, risk, and communication—so that complex, interdependent components come together into a cohesive product our nation's cyber defenders can depend on. You are the single-threaded owner for platform delivery—leading through influence, earning trust across teams you do not directly manage, and freeing engineering and QA leadership to stay focused on architecture, quality, and the platform's future direction.\n\nYou will partner closely with Product Owners, engineering leads, QA, and operations, and communicate release contents and delivery timelines directly to government stakeholders. Product vision, roadmap, and prioritization remain with Product Owners and engineering leadership; you own the execution machinery—backlog to build to release—that turns those priorities into shipped, validated software. Work is performed in a hybrid environment with some onsite work 1-2 days a week in Columbia, MD, with occasional travel (up to 10%, CONUS and OCONUS) to represent the platform at customer and industry events.\n\n#LI-DW2 #Executive\n\nEssential Job Responsibilities\nProgram Execution: Drive the platform delivery cadence—monthly sprints and quarterly releases—across all engineering teams. Translate the roadmap into milestone-driven delivery plans.\nRoadmap Operationalization: Partner with Product Owners to convert roadmap priorities into sprint-ready backlog items with clear acceptance criteria. Manage intake mechanics and track feature validation.\nRelease Management: Orchestrate the end-to-end release process from code-complete to deployment. Coordinate with QA/Release engineering to drive integration testing and go/no-go readiness decisions.\nCross-Team Dependencies: Map and sequence interdependencies between engineering teams. Actively unblock components to ensure clean integration and minimize schedule slips.\nRisk & Blocker Mitigation: Maintain a risk register for schedule, technical, and security risks. Surface issues early and drive path-to-resolution escalations.\nFinancial Monitoring: Track program budget, burn rates, and forecasts. Ensure financial and schedule risks are managed as a single picture.\nSecurity Authorization: Shepherd artifacts through customer security scanning and authorization (RMF/ATO) to keep accreditation off the critical path.\nProgram Communication: Establish reporting mechanisms, release notes, and sync cadences to keep engineering and government stakeholders aligned.\nTechnical Deep-Dive: Understand platform architecture (Lakehouse, Kubernetes, IAM) to facilitate technical tradeoff discussions and assess integration risks.\nStakeholder Representation: Act as the platform's voice to cyber stakeholders via release announcements and live demos. Ensure successful deployment across operating environments.\nBusiness Development Support: Contribute delivery plans and technical inputs to proposals. Deliver platform demonstrations that resonate with DoW requirements.\nOperational Excellence: Own triage for support and community requests. Partner with Product Owners to turn feedback into prioritized work while improving release processes.\nMetrics & Improvement: Define and track metrics for predictability, cycle time, and defect rates to drive continuous delivery improvements.\nAdditional duties as assigned.\nMinimum Qualifications\nClearance Requirement: Must obtain and maintain a Secret level U.S. Government Security Clearance, but not required on day one; U.S. Citizenship required.\n6+ years in DoW cyber, agile software development, and/or big data with a B.A. in Business, a technical field, or related; 4 years relevant experience with a Master's in a related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years relevant experience.\n5+ years of experience in a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Delivery Lead, or equivalent role responsible for driving software delivery within an Agile development environment.\nDemonstrated success driving complex, multi-team software programs to completion—managing dependencies, schedules, risk, and cross-functional communication.\nDemonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority—setting direction, forcing decisions, and holding teams accountable without direct reporting lines.\nDemonstrated understanding of modern data architectures, including concepts like data lakes, data lakehouses, data warehousing, and big data technologies.\nProven ability to work effectively with DoW or other Federal Government customers, with an understanding of their operational environment, procurement, and accreditation processes.\nExceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a talent for making complex technical subjects accessible to varied audiences and for driving clarity across teams.\nExcellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage many moving parts simultaneously.\nAbility to work independently and as part of a team.\nAbility and willingness to travel occasionally (up to 10%, CONUS and OCONUS) to represent the platform at customer and industry events.\nAbility to work on site 1-2 days a week in Columbia, MD. Flexibility is essential to adapt to schedule changes as needed.\nPreferred Requirements\nCurrent Clearances: Active Secret or Top Secret clearances are a strong plus.\nDoD 8140 / 8570 compliance certifications may be required in this position as directed by the customer.\nProgram/project management or agile certifications.\nProfessional experience within or adjacent to the cybersecurity domain (e.g., Security Operations Center (SOC), Cyber Threat Intelligence, Network Defense, Incident Response).\nFamiliarity with cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or AWS/Azure data services, and with the container/Kubernetes ecosystem, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps-based deployment.\nExperience shepherding software through DoW security authorization (RMF/ATO) or container hardening and vulnerability-scanning pipelines.\nExperience establishing a TPM function within an engineering organization—standing up program mechanisms where none existed and assuming delivery ownership from engineering leads.\nExperience working alongside Product Owners on backlog refinement, user-story mechanics, and acceptance-criteria validation in an Agile environment.\nExperience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect) within the GovCon IT space.\nExperience supporting program financial management (budget tracking, burn-rate monitoring, forecasting) and proposal development in a GovCon environment.\nA strong understanding of the data lifecycle within a typical cyber security context.\n\nWe have many more additional great benefits/perks that you can find on our website at www.enlighten.com.","company":"Enlighten","rawCompany":"enlighten","city":"Columbia","state":"MD","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-02T11:12:40.978Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"},{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Technical Program Manager (Hybrid)","description":"Date: Aug 19, 2026\n\nLocation: Columbia, MD, Maryland, United States\n\n#job-location.job-location-inline { display: inline; }\n\nCompany: HII's Mission Technologies division\n\nEnlighten, honored as a Top Workplace from USA Today, is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, with expertise in cloud-based services, software and systems engineering, cyber capabilities, and data science. Enlighten provides continued innovation and proactivity in meeting our customers’ greatest challenges.\n\nWe recognize that the most effective environment for your projects doesn’t always look the same. Our hybrid work approach ensures that you can make lasting relationships with your team and collaborate in-person to get the job done—while having the flexibility to work from home when needed to achieve focused results.\n\nWhy Enlighten?\n\nAt Enlighten, our team’s unwavering work ethic, top talent and celebration of innovative ideas have helped us thrive. We know that our employees are essential to our company’s success, so we seek to take care of you as much as you take care of us. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package:\n• 100% paid employee premium for healthcare, vision and dental plans.\n• 10% 401k benefit.\n• Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays.\n• Education/training allowances.\n\nAnticipated Salary Range: $145,317.00 - $215,000.00. The salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, Enlighten takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function, internal equity and a candidate's education or training, work experience, certifications and key skills. Occasionally positions/roles may include additional non-recurrent compensation and will be addressed by the recruiter during the interview process.\n\nJob Description\n\nEnlighten is seeking an experienced and mission-focused Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive the day-to-day execution and delivery of our next-generation Data Lakehouse platform—a system that empowers Department of War (DoW) cyber operators with unparalleled data access and analytical capabilities at massive scale.\n\nIn this role, you are the connective tissue across our Application, Data, and Infrastructure engineering teams, responsible for turning a prioritized roadmap into shipped, deployed, and accredited software on a predictable cadence. You will own the release train end to end—managing cross-team dependencies, schedules, risk, and communication—so that complex, interdependent components come together into a cohesive product our nation's cyber defenders can depend on. You are the single-threaded owner for platform delivery—leading through influence, earning trust across teams you do not directly manage, and freeing engineering and QA leadership to stay focused on architecture, quality, and the platform's future direction.\n\nYou will partner closely with Product Owners, engineering leads, QA, and operations, and communicate release contents and delivery timelines directly to government stakeholders. Product vision, roadmap, and prioritization remain with Product Owners and engineering leadership; you own the execution machinery—backlog to build to release—that turns those priorities into shipped, validated software. Work is performed in a hybrid environment with some onsite work 1-2 days a week in Columbia, MD, with occasional travel (up to 10%, CONUS and OCONUS) to represent the platform at customer and industry events.\n\n#LI-DW2 #Executive\n\nEssential Job Responsibilities\nProgram Execution: Drive the platform delivery cadence—monthly sprints and quarterly releases—across all engineering teams. Translate the roadmap into milestone-driven delivery plans.\nRoadmap Operationalization: Partner with Product Owners to convert roadmap priorities into sprint-ready backlog items with clear acceptance criteria. Manage intake mechanics and track feature validation.\nRelease Management: Orchestrate the end-to-end release process from code-complete to deployment. Coordinate with QA/Release engineering to drive integration testing and go/no-go readiness decisions.\nCross-Team Dependencies: Map and sequence interdependencies between engineering teams. Actively unblock components to ensure clean integration and minimize schedule slips.\nRisk & Blocker Mitigation: Maintain a risk register for schedule, technical, and security risks. Surface issues early and drive path-to-resolution escalations.\nFinancial Monitoring: Track program budget, burn rates, and forecasts. Ensure financial and schedule risks are managed as a single picture.\nSecurity Authorization: Shepherd artifacts through customer security scanning and authorization (RMF/ATO) to keep accreditation off the critical path.\nProgram Communication: Establish reporting mechanisms, release notes, and sync cadences to keep engineering and government stakeholders aligned.\nTechnical Deep-Dive: Understand platform architecture (Lakehouse, Kubernetes, IAM) to facilitate technical tradeoff discussions and assess integration risks.\nStakeholder Representation: Act as the platform's voice to cyber stakeholders via release announcements and live demos. Ensure successful deployment across operating environments.\nBusiness Development Support: Contribute delivery plans and technical inputs to proposals. Deliver platform demonstrations that resonate with DoW requirements.\nOperational Excellence: Own triage for support and community requests. Partner with Product Owners to turn feedback into prioritized work while improving release processes.\nMetrics & Improvement: Define and track metrics for predictability, cycle time, and defect rates to drive continuous delivery improvements.\nAdditional duties as assigned.\nMinimum Qualifications\nClearance Requirement: Must obtain and maintain a Secret level U.S. Government Security Clearance, but not required on day one; U.S. Citizenship required.\n6+ years in DoW cyber, agile software development, and/or big data with a B.A. in Business, a technical field, or related; 4 years relevant experience with a Master's in a related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years relevant experience.\n5+ years of experience in a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Delivery Lead, or equivalent role responsible for driving software delivery within an Agile development environment.\nDemonstrated success driving complex, multi-team software programs to completion—managing dependencies, schedules, risk, and cross-functional communication.\nDemonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority—setting direction, forcing decisions, and holding teams accountable without direct reporting lines.\nDemonstrated understanding of modern data architectures, including concepts like data lakes, data lakehouses, data warehousing, and big data technologies.\nProven ability to work effectively with DoW or other Federal Government customers, with an understanding of their operational environment, procurement, and accreditation processes.\nExceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a talent for making complex technical subjects accessible to varied audiences and for driving clarity across teams.\nExcellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage many moving parts simultaneously.\nAbility to work independently and as part of a team.\nAbility and willingness to travel occasionally (up to 10%, CONUS and OCONUS) to represent the platform at customer and industry events.\nAbility to work on site 1-2 days a week in Columbia, MD. Flexibility is essential to adapt to schedule changes as needed.\nPreferred Requirements\nCurrent Clearances: Active Secret or Top Secret clearances are a strong plus.\nDoD 8140 / 8570 compliance certifications may be required in this position as directed by the customer.\nProgram/project management or agile certifications.\nProfessional experience within or adjacent to the cybersecurity domain (e.g., Security Operations Center (SOC), Cyber Threat Intelligence, Network Defense, Incident Response).\nFamiliarity with cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or AWS/Azure data services, and with the container/Kubernetes ecosystem, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps-based deployment.\nExperience shepherding software through DoW security authorization (RMF/ATO) or container hardening and vulnerability-scanning pipelines.\nExperience establishing a TPM function within an engineering organization—standing up program mechanisms where none existed and assuming delivery ownership from engineering leads.\nExperience working alongside Product Owners on backlog refinement, user-story mechanics, and acceptance-criteria validation in an Agile environment.\nExperience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect) within the GovCon IT space.\nExperience supporting program financial management (budget tracking, burn-rate monitoring, forecasting) and proposal development in a GovCon environment.\nA strong understanding of the data lifecycle within a typical cyber security context.\n\nWe have many more additional great benefits/perks that you can find on our website at www.enlighten.com.","datePosted":"2026-09-02T11:12:40.978Z","dateModified":"2026-09-02T11:12:40.978Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enlighten","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Columbia","addressRegion":"MD","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"de15bd8d1c1edbc63e2cac4b"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de15bd8d1c1edbc63e2cac4b"}}