Technical Services Manager Jobs in Maryland
Technical Services Manager jobs in Maryland are in steady demand, concentrated in the state's defense contracting, federal IT services, and life sciences sectors, with openings ranging from team-lead roles to senior operations positions. The heaviest hiring is in the Baltimore, Bethesda, and Rockville corridors, where established employers such as Northrop Grumman, Leidos, and Johns Hopkins Health System maintain significant technical operations. The most consistent openings call for expertise in managed IT services, biomedical or laboratory systems support, and defense systems integration. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Technical Lead(Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)
At Fearless, we are seeking a Technical Lead as part of our Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to provide hands-on technical leadership for the development and evolution of modern, user-centered digital services that help State agencies access career, training, and workforce resources. You will guide technical direction and engineering practices, working closely with product, design, data, and engineering teams to translate program needs into secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions built on React, FastAPI, and AWS. This role requires a strong technical foundation and the ability to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, collaboration, and delivery — leading architectural and implementation decisions, mentoring engineers, establishing development and testing standards, and ensuring quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. This is a fully remote role.
This Senior Consultant collaborates with cross functional teams to align the technical vision, implementation, and quality of software systems across development, reliability, testing, and operations. This role will possess the skills to be able to bridge business objectives with technical execution in software development, infrastructure, security, and testing at an advanced application level of proficiency. The Sr. Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and aligning stakeholders with product and project goals.
Fearless Your Responsibilities in this Role:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and guide architecture, design, and implementation decisions across the application.
- Lead the development and evolution of scalable frontend applications and backend services using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Python technologies.
- Design and guide the implementation of APIs, microservices, and integrations with external systems and services.
- Guide data architecture and persistence across relational, NoSQL, and caching technologies.
- Lead the design and deployment of secure, scalable cloud-native solutions within AWS.
- Establish and promote engineering standards for code quality, automated testing, security, maintainability, and performance.
- Guide infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices that support reliable, repeatable deployments across environments.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with product, design, data, and other stakeholders to translate business and user needs into effective technical solutions.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs and communicate recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
The Impact You Will Create in this Role:
Fearless Impact:
- Fosters collaboration with cross functional teams by taking the initiative and driving conversations
- Coach, mentor, and develop peers that elevate team capability and technical expertise using clear and persuasive communication of engineering solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
- Drive accountability and delivery by ensuring project objectives are not only met on time but aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards of excellence. Anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions to keep initiatives on track.
- Take ownership of risk management by monitoring deliverables across the team, identifying issues early, and coaching teammates on mitigation strategies while keeping leadership informed.
- Shape client engagement and intelligence-gathering efforts by actively cultivating relationships with stakeholders, synthesizing insights across the client organization and partner ecosystem, and providing Fearless leaders with actionable recommendations that inform strategy and strengthen delivery outcomes.
Fearless Customer Impact:
- Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
- Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
- Lead and align stakeholders with product and project goals that advance customer satisfaction as well as Fearless’ objectives, strategy, and mission
- Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise
Work Experience
Project Skill and Experience Requirements:
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience developing enterprise-scale applications.
- Experience serving as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Solution Architect, or similar engineering leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience developing modern web applications using React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Node.js.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices, including experience with frameworks such as FastAPI and Express.
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data stores, including PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
- Extensive experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions within AWS, including serverless and containerized architectures.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
- Experience designing and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of automated testing practices across frontend and backend applications.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical direction, mentor engineers, conduct code and architecture reviews, and establish engineering best practices.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS Fargate, S3, RDS, API Gateway, and CloudFront.
- Experience with Redis or similar caching technologies.
- Familiarity with generative AI and search technologies, including AWS Bedrock and OpenSearch.
- Experience with headless content management systems such as Contentful.
- Experience implementing authentication and identity solutions such as Auth0.
- Familiarity with frontend performance and accessibility auditing tools.
- Drupal experience is a plus.
Fearless Skills and Competencies
- Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions.
- Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole.
- Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks.
- Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery.
- Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations.
- Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making.
- Managing Priorities & Client Alignment: Skillfully negotiates and manages conflicting priorities to strategically align decisions, enhancing service delivery and client satisfaction.
Required Level of Proficiency:
- Advanced Application: You can perform the actions associated with a skill without assistance. You are recognized within your immediate organization as "a person to ask" when difficult questions regarding required skills arise.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
- Must be able to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings, which may involve driving or flying.
- Ability to communicate effectively via phone, email, and in-person, requiring clear speech, listening, and written communication skills.
- Ability to move within an office environment, including reaching for files, using office equipment, and occasional light lifting (up to 10 pounds).
Benefits
Life at Fearless
We’re a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. At Fearless, we combine technology, people, and organizational development to solve meaningful problems. Through iterative development, we deliver smart, user-friendly solutions that make tech work better—for everyone.
But great tech is just part of the story. What really makes us Fearless is our Purple Culture.
What Makes Us Purple?
Being Purple means you:
- Are valued as a whole person—not just a job title
- Get matched with work that plays to your strengths and passions
- Are supported by coaches, not micromanagers
- Have the autonomy and clarity to make decisions and drive impact
- Join a community that celebrates equity, curiosity, and innovation
- Do work that matters—every day
We believe in flexibility, growth, and balance. Our benefits and culture are designed to support you in doing your best work—while making space for what matters to you outside of it.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Fearless, we’re building a workplace that welcomes and respects everyone—across race, gender, age, religion, identity, background, and ability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Compensation at Fearless
Fearless is committed to providing a competitive compensation package that will meet your current and future needs. Our philosophy is aimed at rewarding team member contributions, supporting long-term financial growth and security, and overall well-being.
We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or willingness/ability to negotiate — is consistently paid fairly based on alignment to the needs and requirements of the role.
The salary range for this position is:
Minimum Salary: $120,588
Salary Midpoint: $156,764
Maximum Salary: $195,955
Hiring Range for Role: $120,588 - $127,000
- This position is eligible for a discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance criteria.
Benefits at Fearless
At Fearless, we take care of our team—because when you're supported, you can do your best work. We offer a flexible, family-friendly environment with benefits designed to support your health, growth, and life outside of work.
For Full-Time Team Members (Starting Day One):
- Flexible, life-friendly schedules
- 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
- Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
- Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
- 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
- Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
- Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
- Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
- Education, wellness, and tech allowances
- Referral bonus: 6K–12K for each successful referral
- Pet insurance & discount plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage
- Performance-Based Bonuses: We believe your impact should be recognized. Our bonus program rewards both shared company success and individual contributions. Learn more about our bonus incentives here.
Reasonable Accommodations
Fearless is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact the Human Resources Department at hr@fearless.tech.
So, What’s Next?
We’ve refined our hiring approach to make sure every team member is a great fit for Fearless—and that we’re a great fit for you, too. If there’s alignment, we’ll reach out to kick off the interview process. Depending on the role or project, your experience may vary slightly, but it typically includes:
1. Introductory Interview
You'll connect with a recruiter to:
- Build rapport and get to know each other
- Review your experience and skills
- Talk through salary expectations and role details
- Set expectations for the rest of the process
2. Technical Assessment
We'll invite you to complete a role-specific assessment to see your skills in action. This helps us keep our hiring process fair and consistent. You can learn more about what to expect here.
3. Skills + Business Fit Interview
This is where we dig deeper to:
- Review findings from any technical assessments
- Walk through situational and values-based questions
- Explore how your approach aligns with Fearless culture and project needs
Some roles may also include customer interviews based on specific project requirements in addition to background check and security clearance requirements.
Where You Can Build with Fearless
At Fearless, we strive to build a powerful and diverse team. We are currently licensed and set up to hire talented individuals residing in the following states:
Alabama, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
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What Maryland Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in technical services manager jobs across Maryland.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, or a closely related technical field
- Five or more years of technical operations or field services experience in a supervisory capacity
- Proven ability to manage SLAs, escalations, and cross-functional technical teams across multiple sites
- Experience with ITIL frameworks, ticketing platforms, or enterprise service management tools
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred for Maryland defense and federal contract roles
- Strong vendor and contract management skills within regulated government or healthcare environments
Technical Services Manager Jobs in Maryland: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a technical services manager in Maryland?
Most technical services managers in Maryland start with a bachelor's degree in information technology, engineering, or a related field and work several years in technical support or systems administration before moving into management. Maryland has no state-issued license specific to this role, but candidates pursuing defense or federal contract positions often need a security clearance processed through the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. PMP certification and ITIL credentials are widely recognized by Maryland employers and can accelerate advancement.
How much do technical services managers make in Maryland?
Technical services managers in Maryland earn a median of about $171,490 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $106,620 for the lowest 10% to over $245,830 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire technical services managers in Maryland?
Employers hiring technical services managers in Maryland right now include Fearless, Bowhead, and ValidaTek, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Maryland's concentration of federal agencies, defense contractors, and major health systems means hiring is particularly active among organizations with large, distributed technical infrastructures requiring dedicated service management leadership.
Which Maryland cities have the most technical services manager jobs?
Baltimore, Saint Inigoes Shores, and Elkton account for the most technical services manager openings in Maryland. Baltimore drives volume through its large hospital networks and financial services firms, while Bethesda and Rockville reflect the dense cluster of federal agencies, NIH-affiliated institutions, and defense contractors concentrated along the I-270 corridor in Montgomery County.
Are there remote technical services manager jobs in Maryland?
Yes, but they are limited, since the role typically involves overseeing on-site technical staff, vendor visits, and hands-on infrastructure. About 100% of technical services manager openings tied to Maryland are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, most commonly for positions where the management and reporting functions outweigh the physical service component. Roles tied to software support or IT service desk oversight tend to offer the most schedule flexibility.
How can I get hired as a technical services manager in Maryland with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving up from a technical support specialist or systems administrator role within a large Maryland employer. Organizations such as Johns Hopkins Health System, Leidos, and SAIC regularly bring in junior technical staff and promote from within into team-lead positions. Earning a CompTIA, ITIL Foundation, or PMP credential while working in a support role signals readiness for management and is a concrete differentiator for Maryland candidates early in their careers.
Where can I find and apply to technical services manager jobs in Maryland?
You can find and apply to technical services manager jobs in Maryland on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the state. Search roles by location or specialty to see what is available right now, then apply directly to the positions that fit your background and experience level.
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