Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Reston, VA, United States

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• Job Identification 347726
• Job Category Product and Research
• Posting Date 10/16/2026, 03:56 PM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? Yes
• Years 6 to 10+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals using technical know-how in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain. Establishes scope and milestones for each aspect of a technical program, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services. Shapes and leads technical programs and highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives impacting products and business.

Drives the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a point of escalation for all issues. Shapes program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and program goals.

Provides expert technical guidance to shape and direct the automation of comprehensive reporting,leading collaboration with development teams todrive innovation sin reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models forlong-term technical program execution. Shapes the strategic direction of collaboration efforts as a technical liaison across stakeholder teams for high-impact technical programs.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Management and Execution
- Technical Management:

Leverages technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate resources.

Design sand shapes the strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance requirements.

Integrates program demands and resourcing.

Leads rapid response to the most critical security escalations, coordinating across teams and departments and serving as the primary point of contact to executives to assess risk, determine comprehensive mitigation strategies, and ensure alignment and execution of the most effective path to resolution.

Leadsthe transformation and optimization of processes to ensure the highest reliability and resilience of products or services.

Technical Management and Execution
- Technical Strategy and Execution:

Utilizes technical knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.

Supports rapid response to escalations, coordinating within team and communicating tosenior team members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and execute the optimal proposed path to resolution.

Shapes overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.

Define sand enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability,and alignment with best practices.

Develops Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident response to enhance operational efficiency.

Program Oversight
- Strategy and Decision-Making:

Leadsthe alignment of priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.

Establishes scope and milestones, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams todeliver programs or services.

Leads efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement methods for LOB performance.

Develop sand communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly complex objectives to partners and customers.

Program Oversight
- Program and Operations Management:

Shapes andleads both technical and non-technical programs and highly complex,cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.

Guidesand mentors program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer success), providing expert technical support and strategic direction on removing barriers, including risks and issues in workflows.

Provides guidance on developing and maintaining…