Technical Project Manager

The Technical Project Manager leads the implementation of technical pilot projects in healthcare environments from planning through delivery, serving as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and leadership. This role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into actionable project plans, managing scope, schedule, resources, risks, and dependencies, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with organizational priorities. The Technical PM is responsible for growth related to expanding Commonwealth's footprint in the Centers’ Innovation-related activities.

This position will be fully remote with about 20% travel to Innovation Centers located in,

• Richmond, VA,
• Boston, MA (and the greater New England area),
• Cincinnati, OH, and
• Palo Alto, CA. 

Key Outcomes:

• Establish relationships with Centers leadership and build understanding that Commonwealth is a leader in Innovation and Pilot planning and deployment.
• Create and deploy overarching strategy with Commonwealth leaders to grow support for Centers and Pilots.
• Lead use cases, solution development and present relevant use cases to other potential centers to grow total number of pilots in the Innovation and Center space.
• Create and lead a repeatable Pilot execution process and refine approach to pilot a menu of an execution framework.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead end-to-end delivery of technical projects, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, deployment, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource plans, risk registers, and status reporting materials.
• Partner with vendor teams, government leads, operations, cybersecurity, data, and business teams to define requirements, clarify priorities, and coordinate execution.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, issues, and change requests while keeping stakeholders informed of impacts and tradeoffs.
• Facilitate technical decision-making by ensuring the right experts are engaged and that decisions are documented, communicated, and actioned.
• Track project performance using metrics, dashboards, and delivery artifacts; identify trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Develop business cases using information gathered during pilot project to inform future of project.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks related to technology, security, compliance, vendors, staffing, budget, and stakeholder alignment.
• Prepare executive-ready updates, briefings, and decision materials that translate technical complexity into clear business implications.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing technology, software, systems integration, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, or digital transformation projects.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the integration of Federal government systems with commercial products such as SalesForce applications. 
• Demonstrated experience supporting the development of security/privacy requirements matrices and building data models and dictionaries
• Demonstrated experience building business cases based on data collected during pilot projects
• Demonstrated experience building project plans, managing schedules and budgets, coordinating cross-functional teams and communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding and experience working through the software development lifecycle, technical implementation processes, system dependencies, and release management practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical detail for non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, organization, and decision-support skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with VHA’s FLOW system, or other VHA medical systems.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, PRINCE2, ITIL, or similar certification.
• Experience supporting cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, enterprise software, data analytics, AI/ML, or government technology programs.
• Experience managing vendor-supported implementations, professional services engagements, or multi-team delivery efforts.
• Familiarity with compliance, privacy, security, accessibility, or quality assurance requirements in regulated environments.