Senior Technical Manager, Digital Practice

About Palladium

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 50 countries and have a workforce of more than 2,000 talented and motivated staff around the world.

Palladium is part of GISI’s global family of companies, which aims to create solutions for the world’s most complex challenges. With annual revenues of $14 billion, GISI’s approximately 15,000 employees are engaged in projects across 100 countries worldwide providing construction, program/project management, and engineering consulting services.

Palladium’s Digital Practice is seeking a Senior Technical Manager (STM) to lead multiple initiatives across our emerging portfolio of US-based and infrastructure clients. This role provides digital solution technical expertise and project management, including public sector and commercial clients across industries such as architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), transportation and energy. This STM will work closely with client engagement leads to analyze business processes and client challenges, translating them into data and digital solutions.

The role will also work closely with software development teams and vendors to manage product development and oversee end‑to‑end project delivery on client engagements.

This role is highly flexible, requiring adaptation to project and client needs to ensure successful outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to apply a broad technology advisory skillset, working with modern tools and methodologies (Atlassian suite, Microsoft Azure cloud, open‑source platforms, Dev Ops, Agile, AI/ML) to deliver impact.

The position is based in Palladium’s Arlington, VA office within our Americas region. Palladium supports a hybrid working model with 3 days in office, 2 days from home. For our prospective employees in the United States, please note that the full‑time equivalent annual base salary for this position is expected to range from $120,000 to $150,000. Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.

• The role reports to the Account Manager for emerging markets within the Digital Practice
• There are no direct supervisory reports at the outset of this role, but the advisor will lead and coordinate cross‑functional project teams (developers, analysts) in a matrix environment
• The STM will work closely with in‑house software development teams and vendors to oversee software product development and coordinate with clients and project stakeholders to deliver solutions

• Provide overall advisory on the development and implementation of enterprise architectures, including system and interoperability frameworks and technology stacks
• Lead client business analysis activities, understanding both functional and non‑functional requirements by engaging stakeholders and end‑users to refine system design and ensure alignment with client goals
• Work with client engagement leads to produce rapid prototypes and configure product demonstrations to meet client requirements
• Conduct technology assessments to understand current systems, infrastructure and processes in order to produce product, implementation and governance strategies.
• Lead the development of client‑facing deliverables such as reports, strategies and technical documentation
• Serve as the primary liaison between clients/users and technical teams, translating client feedback and requests into actionable technical enhancements or features

• Manage the end‑to‑end solution delivery process for clients, working closely with client engagement leads and software development teams…