Director of Technical Delivery

Arch Systems is seeking an experienced Director of Technical Delivery to lead the successful execution of multiple concurrent Federal technology programs and technical delivery teams. This position requires a strong combination of technical knowledge, Federal contracting experience, program delivery leadership, personnel management, customer engagement, and operational oversight.

This is not a traditional administrative program management role. The Director of Technical Delivery must have a strong understanding of modern technology environments and be able to effectively lead and challenge solution architects, software developers, cloud engineers, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, data engineers, AI/ML professionals, cybersecurity teams, Project Managers, Business Analysts, and other technical SMEs.

The successful candidate must understand how modern systems are architected, developed, integrated, secured, deployed, and operated. They do not need to be the lead engineer, but they must have sufficient technical depth to understand technical decisions, identify risks, challenge assumptions, ask informed questions, and hold technical teams accountable for successful delivery.

Demonstrated Federal Government contracting experience is required.

• Provide leadership and delivery oversight across multiple Federal IT programs, projects, and technical work streams.
• Ensure technical solutions are delivered successfully across scope, schedule, budget, quality, staffing, and customer expectations.
• Maintain visibility into architecture, development, infrastructure, integrations, security, data, and deployment activities.
• Conduct technical and program delivery reviews with Project Managers, architects, engineers, and technical leads.
• Identify delivery challenges early and drive corrective actions through resolution.
• Ensure teams meet technical milestones, customer commitments, contractual requirements, and quality standards.
• Establish accountability across technical and project delivery teams.

Maintain a strong working understanding of:

• Software and application development
• Solution and enterprise architecture
• AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Cloud-native technologies
• APIs and systems integration
• Data engineering and analytics
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Generative AI and Agentic AI
• Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD
• Cybersecurity
• Infrastructure and networking
• Identity and Access Management
• Enterprise applications and SaaS platforms

• Participate in architecture reviews, solution design sessions, technical planning, and delivery reviews.
• Understand system architectures, integrations, APIs, data flows, cloud environments, and technical dependencies.
• Work with architects and engineering teams to understand implementation approaches, technical challenges, and tradeoffs.
• Identify architecture, integration, cybersecurity, performance, infrastructure, data, or deployment risks.
• Challenge technical assumptions and ensure teams have clear implementation plans.
• Translate complex technical information into clear executive and customer communications.

• Provide oversight of Agile software development and modernization initiatives.
• Work with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, architects, QA teams, and Dev Sec Ops  engineers.
• Monitor backlogs, sprint execution, releases, technical debt, defects, and deployment schedules.
• Ensure requirements are translated into actionable technical work.
• Remove organizational and cross-team blockers impacting delivery.
• Ensure teams follow appropriate SDLC, Agile, security, testing, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Drive continuous improvement across technical delivery teams.
• Lead execution of Federal programs in accordance with PWS/SOW requirements, task orders, contractual deliverables, staffing commitments, funding, and performance requirements
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• Work directly with Federal customers including CORs, Government Program Managers, Contracting Officers, CIO organizations, and technical stakeholders
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• Monitor contract performance, deliverables, staffing, funding, schedules, and risks.
• Ensure delivery remains within contractual scope.
• Identify potential out-of-scope requirements and elevate appropriately.
• Support contract modifications, option periods, new requirements, and follow-on work.
• Coordinate with Contracts, Finance, HR, Recruiting, Operations, and Growth teams.
• Oversee subcontractor performance where applicable.
• Drive strong customer satisfaction and…