Senior Technical Program Manager (Temporary Assignment)

About Aretum

Active Secret Clearance Required

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

Job Summary

The selected candidate will lead a complex, fast-paced implementation of AWS Databricks within a multifunctional team, guiding technical delivery, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring the platform is delivered on schedule, securely, and at scale in AWS GovCloud.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complex, fast-paced implementation of AWS Databricks with a multifunctional team of engineers, architects, security, and program stakeholders, managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and milestones to deliver on schedule.
• Lead hands-on development of data pipelines and data platform components, including writing and reviewing production-quality code.
• Own end-to-end delivery for assigned pipelines and services.
• Build, improve, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Implement CI/CD and automated testing for data pipelines (integration tests, data validation, and release workflows).
• Establish operational readiness for production data workflows.
• Optimize performance and cost of pipelines and storage through tuning, partitioning, and workload right-sizing in AWS GovCloud.
• Contribute to and implement modern data architecture patterns, including lakehouse approaches.
• Ensure architecture and implement support DoD strategic initiatives, including enterprise data modernization efforts.
• Drive creation and upkeep of data transformation roadmaps and technical documentation; support data maturity assessments and current-state analysis across agency-wide programs.
• Translate technical approaches into clear, business-understandable frameworks and recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and program offices to understand data requirements, enable data-driven decision-making, and translate technical approaches into business-understandable frameworks and recommendations.
• Support delivery of leadership priority initiatives (e.g., childcare forecasting, Military OneSource analytics, readiness dashboards) and design/implement data solutions that connect outreach efforts to program uptake and readiness outcomes, for users with varying technical proficiency levels.
• Provide day-to-day oversight of IT and IA support personnel, task order performance, and IT/IA program support services, planning, directing, and managing complex IT projects and operations.