External Title Senior Program Manager

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead execution of a large-scale, mission-focused technology program spanning software development, systems engineering, transition, operations, and sustainment.

The Program Manager will serve as the primary management interface to the Government
, providing accountability for contract execution, customer engagement, staffing, schedule, cost, subcontractor coordination, risk management, and delivery across a complex technology environment.

This role is ideal for a proven program leader who can bring structure and accountability to multiple concurrent work streams while partnering closely with technical leadership. The Program Manager will maintain program-level visibility and drive execution across development and operations while technical authority remains with the appropriate architecture and engineering leads.

• Lead overall program execution and serve as the primary management interface to the Government
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• Manage the integrated program schedule, staffing plan, contract deliverables, risks, dependencies, and performance commitments
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• Coordinate concurrent development, systems engineering and integration, operations and sustainment, transition, and G2PS activities.

• Maintain visibility into major technical, staffing, schedule, and operational issues and drive appropriate actions toward resolution.

• Coordinate major program milestones, including MVP, pilot, initial operating capability, tenant onboarding, and full operational capability
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• Ensure development, transition, and operational activities remain aligned with customer priorities and contractual commitments.

• Balance competing program priorities while maintaining focus on delivery, customer satisfaction, and mission outcomes.

• Develop and maintain a time-phased staffing plan across prime, subcontractor, vendor, and contingent personnel.

• Coordinate recruiting, retention, clearance readiness, backfill, and surge actions for hard-to-fill technical positions.

• Ensure key personnel and technical leads have clearly defined responsibilities and appropriate decision authority.

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and Operations & Sustainment organizations.

• Manage subcontractor performance and ensure workshare remains aligned with defined program responsibilities.

• Foster effective collaboration, accountability, and communication across the program team.

• Establish and maintain program operating rhythms for status, risk, issue, opportunity, staffing, financial, and technical reviews
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• Coordinate service-level performance, customer feedback, and corrective actions with the Service Delivery Manager.

• Ensure technical, management, staffing, and cost assumptions remain consistent across the proposal and execution baseline
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• Provide concise, actionable Government reporting that clearly communicates program status, blockers, decisions required, and recovery actions
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• Maintain appropriate visibility into program performance and ensure emerging issues are identified, escalated, and addressed in a timely manner.

Location:

This position is fully onsite in Chantilly, VA.

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
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• 12+ years of relevant program, technical, or delivery-management experience
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• Demonstrated experience managing large, classified IT, software, cloud, platform, or systems-engineering programs
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• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and Operations & Sustainment (O&S) organizations
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• Experience managing subcontractors, staffing, schedules, risks, and customer reporting
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• Working understanding of software and platform delivery life cycles and modern cloud or Dev Sec Ops  environments
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