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This position requires a unique combination of hands-on technical expertise, engineering team leadership, and project management experience to oversee the successful design, development, implementation, and delivery of complex technology solutions.\nThe ideal candidate is a seasoned technical leader with a background in infrastructure engineering, cloud technologies, automation, software development, or enterprise IT operations who has progressed into leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing technical projects.\nUnlike a traditional project management role, this position requires an individual who can engage directly with engineers, understand complex technical challenges, evaluate proposed solutions, provide technical direction, and hold engineering teams accountable for successful delivery.\nThe IT Project Manager will lead technical teams supporting Overseas Operations, Automation, and Overseas Data Storage initiatives, ensuring engineering solutions meet mission requirements, technical standards, and project objectives across domestic and international environments.\nWhy Acuity?\nAre you ready to use your expertise in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation to make a real difference? Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership & Engineering Management\nLead, manage, and mentor multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting cloud infrastructure, automation, cybersecurity, networking, enterprise storage, software development, and IT modernization initiatives.\n\nProvide day-to-day technical leadership, direction, and oversight to engineers, ensuring technical solutions align with customer requirements, architectural standards, and operational objectives.\n\nServe as the primary technical delivery leader, bridging engineering execution, project management, and government stakeholder expectations.\n\nLeverage a strong engineering background to evaluate technical designs, challenge proposed approaches, identify technical gaps, and guide teams toward effective solutions.\n\nOversee engineering activities throughout the solution lifecycle, including technical planning, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and operational transition.\n\nFacilitate technical discussions, engineering reviews, architecture assessments, and troubleshooting sessions to resolve complex technical challenges.\n\nManage engineering workloads, resource allocation, technical priorities, and deliverables across multiple concurrent workstreams.\n\nMentor and develop engineering personnel, promote technical accountability, and foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality delivery.\n\nIdentify engineering skill gaps, resource constraints, and technical dependencies that could affect project execution.\n\nPartner with solution architects, technical SMEs, and engineering leads to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.\n\nTechnical Project Management & Delivery\nLead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex enterprise IT modernization projects, with direct accountability for engineering execution and technical outcomes.\n\nTranslate customer mission requirements and business objectives into actionable technical work plans, engineering deliverables, and implementation strategies.\n\nDevelop and maintain project schedules, technical milestones, resource plans, budgets, risk registers, and delivery metrics.\n\nManage project scope, schedule, budget, technical risks, dependencies, and engineering resources while ensuring successful delivery against contractual requirements.\n\nOversee multiple concurrent technical initiatives involving cloud modernization, infrastructure engineering, automation, cybersecurity, enterprise storage, and application modernization.\n\nApply Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid project management methodologies to drive engineering execution and delivery.\n\nCoordinate engineering activities across geographically dispersed teams supporting domestic and overseas operations.\n\nIdentify and proactively resolve technical roadblocks, engineering dependencies, integration challenges, and delivery risks.\n\nEnsure technical deliverables meet established quality, security, performance, and operational readiness requirements.\n\nLead technical status reviews, engineering working groups, project meetings, and executive briefings with government stakeholders.\n\nProvide clear reporting on engineering progress, technical challenges, project performance, resource utilization, and delivery risks.\n\nSupport DevSecOps practices, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement of engineering and delivery processes.\n\nStakeholder Engagement & Technical Collaboration\nServe as a trusted technical delivery partner to Department of State stakeholders, program leadership, engineering teams, and technical SMEs.\n\nCommunicate complex technical concepts, engineering tradeoffs, and project risks to both technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\nCollaborate with government technical representatives to understand mission needs, establish technical priorities, and recommend solutions.\n\nEnsure engineering execution aligns with Department of State governance, cybersecurity policies, federal IT standards, and operational requirements.\n\nCoordinate the transition of implemented solutions into production environments, including documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational support readiness.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience where permitted by contract requirements.\n\nMinimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in enterprise IT, including substantial experience in technical engineering, IT infrastructure, software development, cloud technologies, or enterprise systems.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading, supervising, or managing technical engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, implementing, or supporting enterprise technology solutions.\n\nProven experience serving as a Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or similar role combining technical leadership with project delivery responsibilities.\n\nStrong technical understanding of multiple enterprise IT disciplines, including cloud infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, automation, enterprise storage, systems engineering, or software development.\n\nDemonstrated ability to understand technical architectures, evaluate engineering solutions, troubleshoot complex technical challenges, and provide informed technical direction.\n\nExperience managing engineering resources, assigning technical work, establishing priorities, mentoring engineers, and driving technical accountability.\n\nExperience managing complex technical projects involving infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, enterprise automation, systems integration, or software delivery.\n\nStrong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery methodologies, DevSecOps principles, and enterprise IT operations.\n\nExperience managing project schedules, technical milestones, resources, budgets, risks, dependencies, and engineering deliverables.\n\nProficiency with technical delivery and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, or comparable platforms.\n\nExperience working with geographically dispersed engineering teams and cross-functional technical stakeholders.\n\nStrong technical communication, leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.\n\nAbility to communicate effectively with engineers, solution architects, program leadership, and senior government stakeholders.\n\nProject Management Professional (PMP) certification required.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior hands-on experience as a Systems Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Software Engineer, Network Engineer, or Technical Architect.\n\nExperience transitioning from an engineering or technical lead position into engineering management or technical project management.\n\nExperience leading engineering teams supporting federal enterprise IT modernization initiatives.\n\nTechnical familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, enterprise networking, Windows/Linux environments, virtualization, storage technologies, or infrastructure automation.\n\nExperience with scripting and automation technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.\n\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or comparable DevSecOps technologies.\n\nExperience supporting the U.S. Department of State or other federal civilian agencies.\n\nExperience supporting overseas IT operations, geographically distributed infrastructure, enterprise storage, or cloud modernization programs.\n\nFamiliarity with NIST RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, and federal cybersecurity requirements.\n\nCertified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, ITIL 4 Foundation, or comparable Agile/IT service management certification.\n\nClearance Requirement\nMust have active Secret - level security clearance to start and be eligible for Top Secret.\nMin\nUSD $150,000.00/Yr.Max\nUSD $175,000.00/Yr.Salary Range\nThe salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. 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