Senior Technical Program Manager; R6371

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Follow Shield AI on Linked In, X, Instagram, and You Tube.

The Senior Technical Project Manager – Enterprise Technology & Systems Delivery is a project delivery leader within the PMO organization responsible for managing technology programs and enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple work streams. This role drives delivery from initiation through go-live and stabilization, ensuring tight schedule management, strong cross-functional coordination, proactive risk and issue escalation, and disciplined governance throughout the project lifecycle.

The role requires someone who can understand technical concepts, dependencies, and delivery risks well enough to coordinate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, integration, data, and testing teams, but who is not expected to serve as the hands-on technical lead or provide technical solution ownership. Success is defined by on-time execution, stakeholder alignment, effective governance, and sustainable adoption of technology-enabled change.

• Lead end-to-end project management for technology implementations, platform migrations, system integrations, and transformation initiatives from charter through go-live and hypercare.
• Manage multiple concurrent work streams, integrating business, engineering, infrastructure, data, testing, and change activities into a single executable project plan.
• Build and maintain detailed schedules, milestone plans, RAID logs, dependency trackers, RACI matrices, and status reporting.
• Coordinate closely with business stakeholders, IT and engineering teams, systems integrators, and vendor partners to ensure alignment on scope, timing, deliverables, and decisions.
• Facilitate planning, requirements, design, and workstream checkpoint sessions with technical leads and business process owners.
• Support governance routines, including workstream meetings, status reviews, and escalation paths; help prepare materials for steering committees and leadership updates.
• Identify, track, and explore risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies through the project governance structure with urgency and clarity.
• Ensure the project schedule is actively managed and tightly driven, including follow-up on overdue actions, management of critical path items, and resolution of cross-workstream blockers.
• Coordinate technical and non-technical delivery activities across integrations, infrastructure, data migration, testing, cutover, and deployment, without acting as the technical authority for solution design.
• Support budget tracking, forecast updates, and variance reporting where applicable.
• Lead preparation for SIT, UAT, cutover, and go-live readiness activities in partnership with the appropriate SMEs and delivery leads.
• Support organizational change management, communications, training coordination, and adoption planning with business and OCM partners.
• Track vendor and systems integrator delivery performance against plans and milestones.
• Prepare clear status updates, decision summaries, and risk reports for project leadership.

• 3+ years of project management experience, including 2+ years leading technology implementation or integration projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing technical programs (e.g., software platform…