Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager - Space & AI Systems

Company: NALEJ Corporation
Department:
Program Management / Mission Delivery

Reports To:

Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or designated executive

Location:

Arlington, Virginia / Hybrid, with travel to customer and partner locations as required

Employment Type:

Full-Time
Clearance:
Active Secret required; active Top Secret or TS/SCI strongly preferred

NALEJ Corporation is seeking a highly capable Technical Program Manager to lead the execution and delivery of complex programs involving space systems, satellite technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and other advanced mission capabilities.

This role will serve as the primary center of gravity for assigned programs, translating technical objectives, contractual requirements, customer priorities, and organizational commitments into executable plans and measurable outcomes. The Technical Program Manager will coordinate across engineering, product, operations, business development, customers, subcontractors, and executive leadership to ensure programs remain aligned, technically credible, financially responsible, and positioned for successful delivery.

The ideal candidate combines strong program management discipline with sufficient technical fluency to engage engineers, data scientists, AI/ML practitioners, space-system specialists, government customers, and senior executives. This individual does not need to be the program’s principal engineer but must understand the technology well enough to identify risk, challenge assumptions, facilitate technical decisions, and communicate program status accurately.

Experience supporting the Department of the Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or related federal mission environments is highly desirable.

• Lead assigned programs from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, customer acceptance, and closeout.
• Convert statements of work, performance work statements, technical objectives, and customer requirements into integrated program plans.
• Establish and maintain program schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive day-to-day execution across technical and nontechnical work streams.
• Ensure program commitments are delivered on schedule, within scope, within budget, and to the required level of technical and operational quality.
• Develop recovery plans when performance, schedule, cost, staffing, or technical issues place delivery at risk.
• Maintain clear accountability for actions, deliverables, decisions, and program outcomes.
• Lead program reviews, milestone reviews, delivery readiness reviews, and executive status briefings.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams supporting space, satellite, AI, machine learning, neural-network, cloud, data, software, cybersecurity, and systems-integration efforts.
• Translate between technical teams, government customers, business leaders, and operational stakeholders.
• Facilitate technical tradeoff discussions involving performance, cost, schedule, integration, security, scalability, and mission impact.
• Understand model development and deployment life cycles, including data preparation, training, validation, testing, integration, monitoring, and operational sustainment.
• Support programs involving predictive analytics, computer vision, autonomous systems, edge computing, sensor data, mission data processing, or other AI-enabled capabilities.
• Identify dependencies involving hardware, software, data, networks, interfaces, infrastructure, security authorization, and external mission systems.
• Ensure technical…