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Candidates within 75 miles of Washington, DC are expected to report to the DC office on a hybrid basis. \nAbout the Role\nBluestaq is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead customer-facing delivery for complex technical engagements supporting U.S. federal missions. This role connects customer objectives with Bluestaq's secure data, cloud, and software engineering capabilities, turning mission needs into clear, executable delivery plans. \nYou will own the engagement lifecycle from planning through closeout, coordinating customer, Bluestaq, and partner teams across multiple workstreams. You will manage scope, schedule, financials, risks, dependencies, and communications while maintaining technical credibility and a clear focus on measurable mission outcomes. As needed, you will also support business development and proposal efforts by contributing delivery strategy, scope, staffing, schedule, risk, and pricing inputs. This is a hands-on delivery leadership role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, guide difficult decisions, and keep teams aligned through execution. \nWhy This Role Matters\nFederal customers depend on delivery partners who understand both mission urgency and the discipline required to execute in secure, highly accountable environments. The Engagement Manager helps customers turn priorities into working capabilities while protecting delivery quality, contractual commitments, and trust. If you are energized by complex programs, direct customer partnership, and removing obstacles for technical teams, this role offers meaningful ownership and visible impact. \nKey Responsibilities \nEngagement Leadership: Lead the full lifecycle of complex customer engagements, from kickoff and integrated planning through delivery, acceptance, transition, and closeout. \nCustomer Outcomes & Trusted Advisory: Build durable relationships with federal customer stakeholders, clarify desired mission and business outcomes, and guide teams toward decisions that support those outcomes. \nIntegrated Planning: Translate objectives and technical requirements into actionable work plans, milestones, staffing needs, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and measurable success indicators. \nScope, Financials & Contracts: Manage engagement scope, schedule, budget, burn, deliverables, and contractual boundaries; surface variance early and lead change control when conditions shift. \nRisk, Issue & Dependency Management: Identify delivery and technical risks early, establish mitigation and contingency plans, remove blockers, and escalate with clear options and recommendations. \nTechnical Alignment: Bridge mission and business requirements with technical solutions, facilitate engineering discussions, and help teams evaluate tradeoffs involving security, scalability, performance, and operational impact. \nCross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate Bluestaq engineers, product leaders, operations, contracts, customer teams, and external partners across concurrent workstreams to drive accountable execution. \nGovernance & Communication: Establish a clear operating cadence and maintain concise status reporting, decision logs, risk and issue tracking, forecasts, and executive-level communications. \nDelivery Excellence & Growth Support: Uphold delivery quality, engagement security, documentation, and readiness standards; capture lessons learned; and, as needed, support business development and proposals with delivery strategies, work plans, staffing models, estimates, schedules, risks, and transition assumptions. \nRequired Qualifications and Skills \nCustomer-Facing Delivery: Demonstrated success leading complex technical projects or programs for external customers through planning, execution, acceptance, and closeout. \nProgram & Project Management: Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, integrated schedules, dependencies, resources, financials, and delivery commitments. \nFederal Mission Context: Experience working with U.S. federal customers or in similarly regulated, security-conscious environments with formal acquisition and governance expectations. \nTechnical Fluency: Working knowledge of cloud services, data platforms, software delivery, and cybersecurity sufficient to facilitate technical discussions and validate alignment with customer outcomes. \nCommunication: Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the judgment to communicate technical concepts, delivery health, risks, and tradeoffs to both executives and practitioners. \nCommercial & Contract Discipline: Experience contributing to proposals and statements of work and managing deliverables, acceptance criteria, budgets, forecasts, and change control within contractual boundaries. \nDelivery Methods & Tools: Proficiency with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methods and common planning, collaboration, and reporting tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Microsoft Project. \nLeadership & Judgment: Ability to influence without direct authority, navigate ambiguity, resolve conflict, maintain accountability, and make sound decisions under pressure. \nTravel: Ability and willingness to travel up to 40%, including international travel, as needed to support customer engagements, delivery milestones, business development, and team alignment. \nPreferred Qualifications \nProject management certification such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or PRINCE2. \nCloud certification or practical experience delivering solutions on AWS or another major cloud platform. \nProfessional services experience delivering cloud, data, software modernization, or mission-system engagements for federal customers. \nExperience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or federal civilian mission environments. \nRequired Education and Experience \nMaster's degree in Business, Program Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and 3+ years of customer-facing technical program, project, or engagement management experience, OR \nBachelor's degree in Business, Program Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and 5+ years of customer-facing technical program, project, or engagement management experience, OR \nAssociate degree in a related field and 7+ years of customer-facing technical program, project, or engagement management experience, OR \nHigh School Diploma/GED and 9+ years of customer-facing technical program, project, or engagement management experience. \nSalary Range (US)\n$130,000—$170,000 USD\nClearance Requirement: This position may require an active TS/SCI Clearance. Current clearance holders are strongly encouraged to apply. If you don't currently hold one, Bluestaq will sponsor eligible candidates through the clearance process based on program needs.\nRelocation: Relocation assistance is available for full-time positions.\nAbout Bluestaq\n At Bluestaq, we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018, we've become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture, operational excellence, and mission impact.\nWe're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity.\nWhat We Offer:\nFor full-time positions\n100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents\nUp to 6% match to 401(k) contributions with additional discretionary 4% profit share on day one. Roth options available; no vesting period.\nEvery role is eligible for an annual performance bonus\n$200,000 employer-paid life insurance, plus short- and long-term disability coverage\n$5,000 annual professional development budget per employee\n20 days PTO, plus 8 paid holidays\nPet insurance, onsite gym, and flexible schedule\nBluestaq is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by state or local law.\nBluestaq will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities and employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to Bluestaq or a direct threat. 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