Mission Delivery Lead

Mission Delivery Lead

Senior leader responsible for product ownership, Agile governance, and execution baseline integrity across mission‑critical ground system capabilities. This role leads product owners, release train engineers, and Scrum Masters, ensuring alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, and delivery commitments.

• Lead and mentor the product owner organization, translating mission priorities and technical objectives into prioritized backlogs, executable work, acceptance criteria, and delivery commitments.
• Lead and mentor release train engineers and Scrum Masters, establishing execution governance, planning discipline, dependency management, and delivery reporting standards.
• Establish and maintain governance of the execution baseline within Jira, ensuring alignment between approved requirements, features, priorities, implementation, verification, and program reporting.
• Ensure alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, backlog priorities, and program execution activities.
• Facilitate alignment across mission engineering, product owners, software development teams, VV&T, and operations to keep priorities, dependencies, implementation activities, verification activities, and delivery commitments synchronized.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance processes supporting planning, prioritization, execution, change management, and delivery reporting across the program.
• Lead program‑level prioritization discussions and assess impacts of changing requirements, emerging mission needs, execution‑driven growth, and resource constraints.
• Oversee dependency management, execution risk management, and delivery forecasting across multiple Agile release trains and teams.
• Develop and maintain program‑level execution metrics, delivery health assessments, forecasting models, and performance reporting.
• Ensure execution data, planning artifacts, and delivery metrics accurately reflect current program status, commitments, and forecasted outcomes.
• Partner with program controls, finance, and Earned Value Management (EVM) organizations to align Agile execution data with program cost, schedule, and performance reporting.
• Ensure work execution and planning activities align with approved charge codes, control accounts, and reporting structures to support accurate financial tracking and forecasting.
• Support customer engagements, program reviews, executive briefings, and delivery assessments through data‑driven analysis and recommendations.
• Identify systemic execution challenges and implement process improvements to enhance delivery predictability, transparency, accountability, and performance.
• Collaborate with program leadership to establish execution priorities, resource allocation strategies, and delivery objectives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for execution concerns impacting delivery commitments, mission objectives, program performance, cost, or schedule.

• Experience leading product owners, release train engineers, or Scrum Masters.
• Experience leading delivery efforts across systems engineering, software development, testing, and operational organizations.
• Experience governing execution baselines, delivery metrics, backlog structures, reporting, and planning activities within tools such as Jira.
• Experience developing execution metrics, forecasting models, delivery reporting, and program performance assessments.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and software development life cycles within complex technical environments.
• Ability to translate technical objectives and mission priorities into executable work, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to assess and communicate impacts associated with changing priorities, emerging work, execution performance, resource constraints, technical risks, and delivery commitments.
• TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience supporting software development, systems engineering, integration, testing, operations, or mission‑focused programs, or 14+ years of experience supporting the same in lieu of a degree.

• Experience serving as a systems engineer, software…