Technical Project Engineer, Lead Associate

Responsibilities

Peraton's Risk Decision Group (RDG) is seeking an experienced and highly driven Technical Project Engineer, Lead Associate to manage policy - driven modernication projects, coordinating with internal stakeholders to deliver workflow improvements, quality enhancements, and compliant system capabilities. Serves as the RDG IT organization’s internal expert on federal investigative policies, quality standards, and modernization of background investigative workflows. This role provides critical policy interpretation, investigative process analysis, and strategic guidance to internal teams, most notably IT PMO and associated product owners to ensure technology solutions, case management systems, and operational processes align with federal investigative requirements. 

 

This position is 100% remote.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Project & Project Porfolio Management

• Lead policy‑driven modernization initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, and internal governance.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and risk tracking for workflow or system enhancement efforts.Coordinate cross‑functional teams, facilitating communication and decision‑making across quality, engineering, IT, product, and operations.
• Track project deliverables and prepare regular status updates for leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including requirements, workflows, testing artifacts, and decision logs.

Policy Strategy & Interpretation

• Serve as RDG IT’s internal authority on federal investigative policy, quality directives, and regulatory standards.
• Monitor changes in federal investigative guidance and oversight reports; develop internal IT impact assessments.
• Conduct gap analysis, focusing on technology and workflow design
• Maintain and enhance internal IT policy frameworks governing investigative accuracy, documentation, and quality assurance.

Advisory Support to the IT Product Owner

• Translate investigative policies and federal standards into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Provide expertise to ensure technology solutions incorporate compliance safeguards, quality controls, and standardized workflows.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and technical discussions to validate policy alignment within product features and system logic.
• Identify opportunities for system enhancements based on policy interpretations, workflow analysis, and operational needs.

Investigative Workflow and Quality Improvement Analysis

• Assess existing IT-supported background investigation workflows and quality review processes for inefficiencies, risks, and gaps relative to federal expectations.
• Lead internal IT initiatives to modernize workflows, enhance consistency, and support investigative accuracy and timeliness.
• Develop future‑state processes that integrate policy requirements with practical, technology-enabled workflows.
• Partner with internal quality, engineering, and operations teams to design and implement workflow improvements and documentation standards.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred degrees of study public policy, criminal justice, political science, business, systems engineering, or a related field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in federal investigative programs, policy interpretation, quality governance, or investigative workflow management.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply federal investigative standards (e.g., Federal Investigative Standards,
• Adjudicative Guidelines).Experience enhancing investigative or background investigation processes, quality controls, or case review workflows.
• Experience working with IT Product Owners, business analysts, or internal product development teams.
• Proven ability to translate complex policy requirements into actionable system requirements and workflow logic.
• Strong research, analytical, and policy‑writing skills.
• Ability to influence internal decision‑making and collaborate across functional areas.
• Oversee the planning and execution of IT projects and change requests, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, stakeholder expectations, and technical standards.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues, risks, and decision‑making across the project portfolio.
• Monitor project performance metrics and ensure timely, accurate communication of progress, risks, and dependencies to senior leadership.
• Oversee adherence to established change management practices and support engineers in managing change requests and defect resolution through the Change Control Board process.
• US Citzenship 
• Must hold active federal background investigation with a T5 adjudication or Top Secret eligible clearance 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with investigative case management systems or policy‑driven system enhancements.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum/SAFe) and product development lifecycles.
• Lean Six Sigma, process improvement training, or comparable methodologies.
• ASQ quality certifications or similar credentials.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.