Senior Biometrics Technical Project Manager

Job ID: 2617922

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-10-14

Category: Program Management

Subcategory: Project Analyst

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Biometrics Project Manager to join our team.

This will be a hybrid-remote role, requiring 2 days of on site work in Ashburn, VA per week.

Responsibilities

Include:

• Supporting various program efforts that may include: biometric technologies such as facial recognition, RFID enabled documents, optical character recognition, license plate reading technologies, data analytics, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and other border security technologies.
• Manage Agile development activities (specifically Scrum) for one or more projects within the SAFe framework, oversee large requirements gathering tasks with internal stakeholders and the client, identify opportunities for follow-on business that bring additional value to the client (customer success), i.e. follow-on engagement opportunities include additional services engagements, creating change orders when additional work required outside the original contracted scope of the project.
• Use thought leadership and understand the clients future to design and architect solutions using leading edge technologies.
• Become the subject matter expert and drive the product roadmap with the clients.
• Experience with Business Blueprints, architectural methods, component-based development, and integration of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components.
• Reviews project artifacts, solution designs, cost estimates, workload sizings, and project deliverables from members of the agile team.
• Establishes and maintains productive working relationships with third party companies/vendors/subcontractors and presents technology.
• Providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments by proposing relevant solutions.
• Establishing goals, plans and, roadmaps that meet project objectives for quarterly SAFe Program Increments.
• Leading analysis of functional business requirements and design specifications for functional activities.
• Leading identification of problems and solutions within existing systems design.
• Leading analysis, design and new construction of next generation IT hardware and software systems.
• Understanding of customer needs and the realities of commercially available IT/hardware products, and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the architecture and engineering team and COTS products.
• Leading client interaction with senior management and government leadership.
• Perform full system analysis from technical implementation to business process management.
• Manage multiple solution offerings with long term vision for system enhancement, consolidation, integration, and operations and maintenance (O&M).
• Provide technical leadership in terms of delivery, release prioritization, and O&M for multiple systems.
• Provide technical input and solution design for proposals and contract modifications.
• Serve as a primary technical interface with client related to program solutions.
• Respond to issues and ensure projects are safe from risks.
• Resolve customer complaints to the full satisfaction of the customer.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study is required with a minimum of 15 years of experience (or masters equivalent).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification is a plus.

Required skills:

• US citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a government-required Public Trust.
• Ability to interface with clients at all levels of their business, to include business operations, financial, technology and management.
• Proven time management skills with a focus on delivery to the customer.
• Ability to exercise good judgement when responding to clients and evaluating priorities with competing objective.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Agile Scrum project management skills.
• Ability to work in team environments across a diverse set of projects with multiple stakeholders.

Desired Skills:

• Experience managing or leading an Agile Scrum Team in a SAFe framework.
• Experience managing and leading a remote workforce effectively.
• Technical working knowledge of system integration, network administration, software development, data analysis, or electrical engineering.
• System engineering experience in one or more areas including biometrics, RFID, license plate technologies, mobility, telecommunications concepts.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence, Gitlab, Microsoft Office Products.

BI Requirement:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and a current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Note: Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.