Software Product Line Lead

Lockheed Martin’s Rotary &Mission Systems division is building the next-generation, AI-ready, cloud-native, mission platform. This is a software-first product line that operates like a high-growth commercial tech platform - delivering new capabilities, licensing, and ongoing support at commercial-grade velocity - while meeting the security and reliability standards required for mission-critical Defense workloads.

This is a hybrid-telework opportunity. This role supports a predefined telework schedule combined with on-site collaboration, based from one of these locations:

• Huntsville, AL
• Colorado Springs, CO
• Littleton, CO
• Moorestown, NJ
• Owego, NY
• Syracuse, NY
• King of Prussia, PA
• Manassas, VA

• Lead the end-to-end creation of a software product that is sold, deployed, and continuously maintained in a commercial environment. Drive practices that enable rapid onboarding of new customers, predictable upgrade paths, and long-term sustainment.
• Design and implement a secure licensing framework that supports multiple entitlement models. Build the tooling for key generation, activation, renewal, and revocation, and embed it directly into the deployment pipeline.
• Embed a modern ticketing and enhancement system into the product. Define APIs and UI flows that let customers submit help-desk tickets, request feature enhancements, and track resolution status, turning support data into a continuous improvement engine.
• Institutionalize short, frequent release cycles (CI/CD) that mirror commercial SaaS roll-outs. Establish automated deployment, configuration-as-code, and rollback capabilities that give customers confidence in rapid, low-risk upgrades.
• Define and evolve a scalable software framework that supports the above commercial capabilities.
• Balance near-term customer needs with investments required to maintain a scalable, extensible, and sustainable product.
• Translate customer and mission requirements into concrete technical roadmaps; serve as the primary liaison for internal teams, external partners, and Customers.
• Accelerate delivery by applying best of breed development practices while meeting Lockheed Martin’s security and compliance mandates.
• Integrate AI agents and advanced analytics into the platform, enabling autonomous decision-making across diverse environments.

A technical leader who has delivered large-scale, high-availability software in commercial settings (e.g., streaming services, data-intensive cloud platforms). You balance architecture, engineering, product management, and operations, keeping the commercial lifecycle front-and-center.

• Proven track record designing, licensing, and supporting commercial software that is sold, deployed, and maintained at scale.
• Expertise in modern cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and CI/CD/Dev Sec Ops .
• Experience building or integrating ticketing/enhancement workflows that turn support data into product evolution.
• Comfortable navigating the tension between rapid commercial deployment cycles and the stringent security/compliance requirements of defense programs.

You won’t just ship software—you’ll own a commercial product lifecycle that includes licensing, customer support, continuous enhancements, and rapid, reliable deployment.

• Experience in software architecture and commercial-grade development practices; able to educate all levels of an organization on modern CI/CD workflows.
• 10+years of experience delivering high-availability, network-centric applications (e.g., streaming, data-intensive services, cloud-native platforms) and integrating AI into existing products.
• Demonstrated ability to define and manage licensing models, usage-key generation, and…