Sr Principal Program Manager

Artech LLC

  • Fort Worth, TX
  • 8 days ago

    Highlights

    Technical project coordination & agile facilitation — running project delivery for concurrent technical workstreams and facilitating Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (refinement, planning, stand-up, review, retrospective), with hands-on backlog management in Azure DevOps or equivalent (Jira, Rally). Requirements intake & status management — eliciting requirements directly from technical and business stakeholders, writing clear user stories with testable acceptance criteria, managing the intake-to-delivery pipeline, and producing recurring status reporting and executive-ready summaries for leadership.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationFort Worth, TX

    Description

    Title: Sr Principal Program Manager
    Location: Fort Worth, TX - 76155 (3 days hybrid onsite)
    Duration: 12+ months Contract

    Top Requirements:
    • 11+ total years in technical project management or delivery management.
    • 5+ years in technical project management or delivery management supporting cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, or engineering teams (not general business/administrative PM experience), including hands-on facilitation of agile ceremonies and ownership of technical documentation .
    • Technical project coordination & agile facilitation — running project delivery for concurrent technical workstreams and facilitating Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (refinement, planning, stand-up, review, retrospective), with hands-on backlog management in Azure DevOps or equivalent (Jira, Rally). Scrum certification (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP) or PMP strongly preferred.
    • Requirements intake & status management — eliciting requirements directly from technical and business stakeholders, writing clear user stories with testable acceptance criteria, managing the intake-to-delivery pipeline, and producing recurring status reporting and executive-ready summaries for leadership.
    • Technical documentation & training development — authoring and refining runbooks, SOPs, process/architecture documentation, and knowledge base content, plus defining role-based training requirements and building and maintaining the associated training materials.
    Roles and Responsibilities:
    • Manages/oversees all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned initiatives with distributed teams. With teams becoming more geographically dispersed, strong leadership and team-building skills are essential.
    • Leads IT initiatives throughout the entire project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure).
    • Develop and manages detailed project plans, manages project scope and sets milestones, manages budget, tracks project status
    • Ensures initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
    • Designs and maintains project vision, project working standards, and agreements
    • Identifies potential risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.
    • Manages issues and troubleshoot problems that arise during the project lifecycle, ensuring minimal disruption to the project timeline.
    • Tracks, updates, and communicates project status in a proactive manner as it relates to project progress, budget/cost, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, and risk mitigation plans
    • The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to various stakeholders
    • Ability to leverage data analytics for tracking project performance, optimizing processes, and making informed decisions that align with strategic goals .
    Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience:
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
    • 11+ years of experience in IT project management or a related role.
    Skills, Licenses, and Certifications:
    • Certified ScrumMaster or PMP (Project Management Professional) is a plus
    • Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring teams , with strong focus on continuous improvement and developing self-organizing teams
    • Experience in a variety of computing platforms, such as mainframe, client/server, web, cloud, and social media
    • Experience in DevOps toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
    • Proficiency in Client Office Tools (Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) and project management software
    • Skills in leadership; team-focused with high energy and a positive attitude
    • Skills in analytics, estimating, and problem solving
    • Ability to think strategically and develop tactical methods to achieve objectives and goals
    • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, customers, and external groups, as well as working in a collaborative environment with geographically dispersed resources
    Nice to Have Skills and Experience:
    • Working familiarity with PKI/certificate lifecycle concepts, SIEM/security analytics, or endpoint platforms — enough to speak the team’s language; aviation / OT / cyber-physical or embedded-systems exposure; use of AI/agentic tooling (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate documentation, requirements drafting, and reporting per CISO AI direction; aviation security standards (DO-326A/DO-355A, ATA Spec 42) or NIST risk frameworks (NIST 800-30, CSF); vendor and third-party risk coordination (OneTrust or similar); Client 365 / Teams / SharePoint, Power BI or similar reporting tools; instructional design or technical writing background.

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