Forms Delivery Technical Manager

Forms Delivery Technical Manager

Position Type: Full-Time

Work Location / Area: Reston, Virginia & Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Work Arrangement: Hybrid — 2–3 days remote per week; onsite work as required
Minimum Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years leading technical delivery teams
Position Summary

The Forms Delivery Technical Manager will lead the technical delivery of EDGAR forms development and modernization for the SEC program. This role is responsible for driving form capabilities from requirements and design through development, integration, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
The Technical Manager will collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, UX designers, developers, test engineers, architects, DevSecOps engineers, and SEC stakeholders to ensure form capabilities are delivered predictably and meet functional, technical, accessibility, security, and quality requirements.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical knowledge with Agile delivery leadership and can work directly with engineering teams to remove blockers, manage dependencies, resolve technical issues, coordinate releases, and drive delivery outcomes.
Key Responsibilities

Forms Delivery Leadership

- Lead end-to-end technical delivery of EDGAR forms and associated capabilities.
- Coordinate requirements, design, development, testing, integration, and deployment activities.
- Manage delivery priorities, dependencies, technical risks, and release readiness.
- Ensure teams have clear technical requirements and acceptance criteria before development begins.
- Drive issues and blockers to resolution across engineering teams.
- Maintain visibility into delivery progress and communicate risks, decisions, and dependencies to program leadership.

Technical Leadership

- Provide technical oversight for form development, configuration, business rules, validation, workflows, and supporting services.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering leads to ensure implementations align with EDGAR architecture and development standards.
- Review technical designs and identify integration, data, performance, security, and deployment considerations.
- Coordinate integration between forms, APIs, data services, workflows, and downstream systems.
- Support technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex delivery issues.

Agile and Release Management

- Work closely with Product Owners and Scrum teams to plan and execute form delivery.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, technical estimation, and release planning.
- Coordinate delivery across multiple technical disciplines and dependencies.
- Track technical readiness through development, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production deployment.
- Establish clear entry and exit criteria for releases.
- Support production validation and resolution of post-deployment issues.

Quality and Compliance

- Partner with testing teams to ensure comprehensive functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test coverage.
- Ensure forms meet Section 508 accessibility requirements.
- Coordinate security, performance, data-validation, and operational-readiness activities.
- Ensure technical documentation and delivery artifacts are complete and maintained.
- Promote automation and continuous quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Team and Stakeholder Coordination

- Serve as the primary technical delivery point of contact for assigned forms and releases.
- Coordinate developers, testers, Business Analysts, UX specialists, DevSecOps engineers, and architects.
- Translate business priorities into executable technical delivery plans.
- Provide clear delivery status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to leadership.
- Mentor team members and promote consistent engineering and delivery practices.

Minimum Experience and Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering, application delivery, or technical program delivery.
- Minimum 3 years leading technical delivery teams for complex enterprise applications.
- Experience managing delivery across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements through production.
- Strong understanding of modern web applications, APIs, data integration, and distributed application architectures.
- Experience coordinating development, testing, DevSecOps, infrastructure, and architecture teams.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
- Experience managing technical dependencies, risks, defects, and release readiness.
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Mandatory Technical Skills

- Technical Delivery Management
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Forms Development and Modernization
- Modern Web Application Architecture
- Application and System Integration
- APIs and Data Integration
- Agile/Scrum Delivery
- Technical Dependency and Risk Management
- Defect Management and Technical Troubleshooting
- Release Planning and Production Readiness
- Quality Assurance and Test Coordination
- Functional, Regression, Integration, and End-to-End Testing
- Section 508 Accessibility Requirements
- Technical Documentation and Delivery Governance
- Cross-Functional Engineering Coordination

Mandatory Non-Technical Skills and Requirements

- U.S. Citizenship: Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Security Clearance: Must hold a Public Trust clearance or be able to obtain and maintain one, subject to applicable suitability requirements.
- Full-Time Employment: Must be willing and able to work full-time.
- Hybrid Work Arrangement: Must be willing to work in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, with 2–3 days remote per week and onsite attendance as required.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Technical Leadership: Ability to guide technical teams, coordinate engineering decisions, and drive delivery outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to work effectively with program leadership, SEC stakeholders, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and engineering teams.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear reporting of delivery status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
- Planning and Organization: Ability to coordinate parallel workstreams, schedules, priorities, dependencies, and releases.
- Problem-Solving: Ability to resolve blockers, assess technical risks, and facilitate effective resolution of complex issues.
- Accountability and Ownership: Ability to drive assigned capabilities from requirements through deployment and production readiness.
- Collaboration: Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams across development, testing, architecture, infrastructure, and DevSecOps.
- Adaptability: Ability to operate effectively in Agile environments with changing requirements and delivery priorities.
- Continuous Improvement: Commitment to improving delivery processes, engineering practices, documentation, and release quality.

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience delivering complex electronic forms, workflow, case management, or transaction-processing applications.
- Experience with AWS cloud environments and cloud-native applications.
- Understanding of REST APIs, microservices, JSON/XML, relational databases, and application integration.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, GitHub, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience delivering applications subject to Section 508 accessibility requirements.
- Familiarity with FISMA, NIST, and federal cybersecurity requirements.
- Experience supporting SEC, financial regulatory, or large-scale federal modernization programs.
- Agile, Scrum, AWS, or related technical certifications.

Degrees and Certifications

Required Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Required Clearance: Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.
Preferred Certifications: Agile/Scrum, AWS, or other relevant technical certifications.