Senior Technical Delivery Manager

Description

Commence is a mission-led, technology-driven company built to solve the hardest problems in federal health care and drive measurable outcomes. Its work spans program integrity and compliance, quality improvement and measurement science, health informatics, interoperability, and AI, delivered across the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Defense Health Agency (DHA), and state health agencies. At its center is a data-centric philosophy grounded in a simple conviction: that better data, made accessible, connected, and usable, is the raw material of better decisions, better care, and better efficiency.

The Senior Technical Delivery Manager is responsible for the full delivery of complex technical programs across engineering, product, data, and operations teams. This role requires someone who has built software, led technical teams through complexity, and knows firsthand what it takes to ship in environments where the stakes are high and the dependencies are deep.

Requirements

The Senior Technical Delivery Manager owns their programs end to end. They are accountable for outcomes, not just updates. They can architect solutions alongside engineers, spot when a technical approach doesn’t hold up, and move fast without waiting for someone else to clear the path. Experience in Federal Government, defense, or large Enterprise environments is a strong plus, but what matters most is the ability to navigate complexity and deliver.

• Own the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex technical programs spanning engineering, product, data, and operational teams. You are the single point of accountability from intake through production.
• Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and domain experts to translate business requirements into program plans, delivery milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive end-to-end program management including scope definition, scheduling, dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication.
• Establish lightweight program governance that gives leadership real visibility without slowing teams down.
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies across software development, data engineering, infrastructure, and client delivery teams. Lead through influence, not authority.
• Work alongside engineering teams building cloud-native platforms, APIs, and healthcare data solutions. Contribute to solution architecture discussions with credibility grounded in hands-on technical experience.
• Evaluate technical approaches critically. Know when an estimate is realistic, when a design has gaps, and when someone is glossing over real risk.
• Facilitate program reviews, technical design discussions, and decision-making forums to remove blockers and drive alignment across teams.
• Coordinate releases and delivery activities across development, QA, DevOps, and operational teams to ensure successful production deployments.
• Continuously improve delivery processes, tooling, and practices. Leave every program in better shape than you found it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in technical program management or software delivery, with a background that includes hands-on engineering.
• Deep understanding of modern software development including cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems. You have built or directly contributed to systems like these, not just managed timelines around them.
• Hands-on experience with engineering stacks such as .NET, Java, React, Python, or JavaScript frameworks. Enough depth to evaluate technical trade-offs and hold your own in architecture discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar program management platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving Agile environment where iteration speed m