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title: 'Technical Program Manager at Swift'
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# Technical Program Manager at Swift

- **Company:** Swift
- **Location:** Tidewater, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDoj95ah9wlOiGMkLLJVpclt

## Job description

Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead a dynamic program providing unique technology engineering support. The program provides expertise across multiple mission areas across software development, data engineering, technical integration, network engineering, and quick reaction development. The technical work is hands-on, lab discovery focused, and multi-disciplinary. The work location is in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a 10-person team including experts in technical integration, network/cyber security engineering, software development, and data engineering and analysis
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical programs using Agile methodologies
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring alignment to mission priorities and technical objectives
- Drive disciplined adherence to project timelines, milestones, and deliverables
- Maintain rigorously organized Agile workflows, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily standups
- Maintain a clean and actionable JIRA board, ensuring accurate and up-to-date tracking of tasks, issues, and resource assignments
- Translate high-level objectives into detailed technical tasks and milestones
- Align internal and external resources to program requirements, balancing technical and personnel constraints
- Foster a culture of accountability within the team, holding contributors to timelines, quality standards, and deliverables
- Interface with government customers and stakeholders regularly, providing updates and managing expectations
- Collaborate with technical leads, engineers, and SMEs across domains to ensure effective integration and delivery
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks early in the program lifecycle
- Work closely with contracts, procurement, and business units to ensure program compliance and performance

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be substituted
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management
- Demonstrated success delivering programs in network engineering, systems engineering, or similar technical domains
- Comprehensive knowledge of managing teams, PM processes, and PM tools
- Deep expertise with Agile methodologies and full project lifecycle management
- Proficiency with JIRA and Agile program management tools
- Excellent organizational and documentation skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills—capable of managing both technical teams and high-level customer interactions
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Experience:

- Experience managing contracts, to include tracking/reporting costs and knowledge of basic contracting principles

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## About Swift

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Swift Group provides national security technology and mission support by combining experienced field operatives with expert technologists.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding stage)
- **Headquarters**: Reston, VA, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: National security, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, training and logistics.
- **Target customers**: U.S. Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community agencies (B2G).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “When national security leaders need something built quiet that hits loud, they turn to Swift.” — The company pairs field operators with technologists to solve complex national security challenges with speed, discretion, and precision.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **HPC Research & Technical Advisement**: Specialized advisement for revolutionary high-performance computing systems supporting data-intensive missions.
- **Software Development & Data Solutions**: Rapid prototyping, agile development, and applied data science tailored to mission needs.
- **Cyber Enablement**: Network defense, offense, threat analysis, and resilience for enterprise and operational environments.
- **Operations**: Mission planning and execution support delivered shoulder-to-shoulder with client teams anywhere in the world.
- **Training & Mission Support**: Operator-led instruction and technical training across the full mission lifecycle.
- **Energetics**: Advanced research, advisory, and deployment of energetic materials to improve system performance and operational effect.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Over **126 open positions** currently listed on the careers page, signaling rapid growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growt Signals**: Founded in 2019, now has multiple offices (Reston, Annapolis Junction, Chantilly, McLean, etc.) and supports customers across the U.S. and globally. High volume of active job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Operator-led approach**: Combines real-world field experience with cutting-edge engineering, reducing the gap between mission needs and technical solutions.
- **Integration**: Unified teams of operators, engineers, and analysts work together, avoiding siloed tools.
- **Discretion and trust**: Emphasizes low-profile, off-the-record work, earning deep trust from national security clients.
- **Acountability**: Company culture of owning outcomes, with a flat, agile structure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding capabilities in cyber, HPC, and data science while maintaining operator-driven agility. Continued support for sensitive, high-stakes missions across civilian, defense, and intelligence domains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, employee-focused, with a strong sense of purpose. Values include transparency, integrity, service, and innovation.
- **Work environment**: Low-profile, high-impact. Roles often require clearance and on-site presence at client locations (e.g., Chantilly, Annapolis Junction, Reston). Not fully remote; likely hybrid or on-site.
- **Bnefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time-off benefits.
- **Success stories**: Clear career progression from analyst to chief architect, with wide pay bands (e.g., $50k–$290k) indicating room for growth and specialization.

## Sources
1. [theswiftgroup.com/company](https://theswiftgroup.com/company/)
2. [theswiftgroup.com](https://theswiftgroup.com/)
3. [careers.theswiftgroup.com](https://careers.theswiftgroup.com/)
4. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group)

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