Senior Program Manager

Leidos is seeking a proven technical program management leader with deep experience leading largescale mission software development fulllifecycle modernization and distributed engineering organizations. The ideal candidate has directed complex software programs overseen multidiscipline teams delivering secure highperformance capabilities and demonstrated authoritative leadership across architecture integration DevOps cyber and cloud environments. Candidates must bring handson credibility in software development and sustainment not just program oversight with a track record of delivering missioncritical systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

This role requires meaningful technical credibility disciplined program leadership and demonstrated success running largescale fulllifecycle software development and sustainment programs exceeding $20M/year. Consider that Mission System Modernization is a continually challenging requirement that demands modernization of legacy mission systems into secure cloud hybrid or containerized architectures ensuring resilience scalability and future ready capability delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Program Leadership of Large-Scale Program: Direct fulllifecycle development integration deployment and sustainment of mission software systems spanning analytics cyber geospatial and enterprise data workflows.
• MissionCritical Delivery: Oversee development and sustainment of classified systems of systems supporting warfighter intelligence operational planning and strategic decisionmaking using Agile Execution methodologies and strategies to implement and enforce enterprise Agile practices Program Increment Planning CI/CD pipelines and rapid prototyping methodologies across distributed teams.
• Customer Engagement & Strategy: Serve as the autonomous senior interface to government sponsors shaping technical direction resolving issues and driving missionaligned growth.
• Program Leadership: Develop and execute program with disciplined accountability of technical schedule and financial matters to maintain performance baselines and embolden customer confidence.
• Innovation & Prototyping: Drive rapid prototyping IR&D initiatives and technical fellowshiplevel solutioning to accelerate mission capability insertion and expand program growth opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 15 years of experience in softwareintensive program leadership; or Masters degree with 12 years; or equivalent experience.
• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a polygraph once hired.
• Demonstrated leadership of large geographically distributed engineering organizations delivering mission software across classified and unclassified environments. Distribution must be at least two or more physically/geographically separated locations.
• Proven success managing $20M/year software development and sustainment portfolios.
• Deep experience with fullstack software development DevOps CI/CD cloud cyber and enterprise data systems.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills spanning technical operational and executive audiences.
• Experience supporting business development technical solutioning and major proposal efforts with hands on knowledge/development of BOEs RFP/RFI response generation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Experience delivering missioncritical classified systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
• Background in software architecture cyber innovation AI/ML integration modeling/simulation or enterprise modernization.
• Experience leading multidiscipline teams of 100 personnel across diverse technical domains.
• Demonstrated ability to recover troubled programs reestablish technical execution and deliver under highvisibility conditions.
• Experience driving IR&D rapid prototyping and technical innovation pipelines aligned to mission needs.

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