Technical Director

Technical Director

Work Location: Onsite at USCG Aviation Logistics Center (ALC), Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Clearance: Active Secret

Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP)

Serve as the Senior Technical Director providing division-wide technical leadership, project oversight, and supervisory direction for designated information technology initiatives supporting the USCG ALC Information Systems Division (ISD). The Technical Director serves as the project manager for the Configuration Management Branch and supports technical activities and dependencies across the division.

The Technical Director organizes and assigns responsibilities to technical personnel, serves as the principal contractor liaison with Government subject matter experts, and provides technical direction for system development, systems integration, configuration management, architecture, testing, and process-improvement efforts. The position facilitates project governance boards and ensures that technical work, plans, reports, and deliverables satisfy approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, security, and performance requirements.

• Provide division-wide technical leadership and oversight for designated IT projects, with primary responsibility for Configuration Management Branch project execution and governance.
• Organize and assign responsibilities to subordinate personnel; establish priorities, monitor performance, and ensure the successful completion of assigned technical and project-management tasks.
• Serve as the contractor liaison among Government subject matter experts, ISD management, the Configuration Management Branch, the Program Manager, Project Managers, technical leads, and contractor personnel.
• Provide technical direction for complete system-development and systems-integration efforts throughout the Systems Engineering Life Cycle (SELC).
• Serve as a technical authority for system design, integration, architecture, release, configuration, or problem areas and recommend practical, secure, and supportable solutions.
• Plan and manage project scope, cost, schedule, resources, dependencies, milestones, risks, and technical performance for assigned applications, systems, and initiatives.
• Facilitate project governance and configuration-control boards, including the Design Review Board (DRB), Local Configuration Control Board (LCCB), and Integrated Configuration Control Board (ICCB), and ensure contractor personnel follow approved board processes.
• Oversee change-management workflows and ensure change requests, approvals, assignments, status, labor hours, artifacts, and closure information are accurately maintained in Jira or the Government-approved change-management tool.
• Support the division process-improvement team and provide recommendations for Jira task management, workflow optimization, metrics, automation, and governance.
• Develop, maintain, and implement Program Management Plans, Technical Specifications Plans, project plans, schedules, SELC documentation, standard operating procedures, process guides, and other documents that direct functional and technical activities.
• Ensure configuration baselines, version control, release-promotion processes, testing procedures, discrepancy lists, and configuration-management records are complete, current, traceable, and compliant with approved processes.
• Coordinate the creation, review, and maintenance of system architecture documentation, technical and functional views, network and system-flow diagrams, data dictionaries, entity-relationship diagrams, interface diagrams, and physical and logical data models.
• Ensure software and hardware changes are reviewed for required documentation and security-artifact updates to maintain Authority to Operate (ATO) compliance.
• Oversee quality‑assurance and testing activities, including manual and automated test scripts, regression testing, release testing, vulnerability‑patch testing, STIG testing, and QA status and metrics reporting.
• Perform gap analysis and maintain traceability among requirements, project plans, technical designs, testing evidence, configuration items, and delivered…