Savan Group is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager – Application Development
to lead delivery of a complex federal enterprise application supporting records and information management business processes. This role is intended for an experienced technical project manager who can manage a mature Agile software development environment, lead sprint and release execution, coordinate technical and business stakeholders, and maintain disciplined delivery across development, testing, DevOps, deployment, and production support.
The Senior Technical Project Manager will manage day-to-day project delivery, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog management, release planning, risks and issues, resource coordination, testing readiness, deployment coordination, production issue tracking, and client communications. The successful candidate must have strong Agile/Scrum experience and sufficient technical understanding of Java-based applications and AWS environments to effectively oversee developers and coordinate DevOps engineers, user acceptance testing, security, and other technical resources.
The application supports federal records and information management functions. The Senior Technical Project Manager does not need to be a records and information management (RIM) subject matter expert but must have enough RIM, enterprise content management, document management, or information governance experience to understand the business domain and work effectively with RIM SMEs and client stakeholders. The role requires exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical skills, disciplined follow-through, and excellent written and verbal communication.
Role Responsibilities: Lead delivery of a federal enterprise Java application across requirements, development, testing, UAT, deployment, production support, and ongoing operations and maintenance.
Own Agile/Scrum delivery activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
Manage sprint readiness, commitments, capacity, backlog health, delivery metrics, impediments, dependencies, and completion trends.
Work with product owners, client stakeholders, technical leads, and business analysts to prioritize the backlog and ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are ready for development.
Develop and maintain project plans, sprint and release schedules, resource assignments, risks and issues, decisions, action items, and dependency tracking.
Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary delivery team that may include Java developers, architects, testers, DevOps engineers, business analysts, RIM specialists, and other technical resources.
Coordinate development, system and regression testing, UAT, defect resolution, deployment, and production-readiness activities.
Coordinate release readiness across development, testing, UAT, security, accessibility, DevOps, and production support, ensuring unresolved dependencies and risks are identified and addressed before deployment.
Support coordination of AWS environments, CI/CD activities, deployments, infrastructure dependencies, application monitoring, and production issue resolution.
Track and drive resolution of risks, issues, defects, production incidents, technical dependencies, and cross-team impediments.
Analyze project, application, testing, defect, operational, and delivery data to identify trends, assess risks, investigate issues, and support data-driven recommendations.
Translate business, technical, RIM, security, accessibility, and operational requirements into actionable development work and implementation plans.
Review project, sprint, release, and client-facing documentation for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and quality.
Prepare clear project status reports, sprint and release reporting, executive briefings, recommendations, meeting materials, and other client communications.
Qualifications and Requirements: Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) from an…