Senior Program Manager
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex software development programs and multiple related technical workstreams across IRAD and customer-funded efforts
- Establish and own integrated program strategies, roadmaps, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource plans, dependencies, risks, opportunities, and program performance metrics
- Serve as the senior program point of contact for customers, government program offices, internal leadership, and technical teams; drive alignment, decisions, and clear accountability across stakeholders
- Coordinate across software, systems, test, fielding, support, and, where applicable, hardware teams to resolve cross-functional dependencies and deliver high-quality program outcomes
- Lead program status reviews, technical reviews, risk reviews, and executive/customer briefings; translate technical progress, trade-offs, and issues into clear program-level impacts and recommended actions
- Guide programs through the full lifecycle, including requirements, development, integration, test, delivery, transition, and fielding; support contract execution, proposals, LOE estimates, statements of work, and follow-on planning
- Provide leadership and mentorship across the PM team, establish scalable program management practices, and support organizational planning and prioritization across multiple programs
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of project and/or program management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional technical development efforts
- Direct experience developing software and working within the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with sufficient technical depth to engage engineering teams on requirements, architecture, integration, dependencies, trade-offs, test, and delivery
- Demonstrated success leading programs through the full lifecycle, from requirements and planning through development, integration, test, delivery, and transition/fielding, using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid execution models
- Experience developing and managing integrated program plans and schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, customer commitments, and program-level performance reporting
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence engineers, business teams, customers, senior leaders, and government stakeholders
- Highly organized and able to lead multiple workstreams and competing priorities while making sound decisions in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements
- Experience developing or managing hardware products or integrated software/hardware systems through design, integration, test, production, or fielding
- Experience supporting a DoD Program of Record (PoR), including government program offices, acquisition stakeholders, formal reviews, contract deliverables, or fielding
- Experience supporting or managing defense/government R&D and acquisition programs, including DoD, IC, OTA, or similar environments
- Working knowledge of EVM, cost tracking, resource planning, financial forecasting, and performance measurement
- PMP certification and proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or equivalent program/project management tools
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