Technical Program Management Leader
Leidos is seeking a proven technical program management leader with deep experience leading large-scale mission software development, full-lifecycle modernization, and distributed engineering organizations. The ideal candidate has directed complex software programs, overseen multi-discipline teams delivering secure, high-performance capabilities, and demonstrated authoritative leadership across architecture, integration, DevOps, cyber, and cloud environments. Candidates must bring hands-on credibility in software development and sustainment, not just program oversight, with a track record of delivering mission-critical systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. This role requires meaningful technical credibility, disciplined program leadership, and demonstrated success running large-scale, full-lifecycle software development and sustainment programs exceeding $20M/year. Consider that Mission System Modernization is a continually challenging requirement that demands modernization of legacy mission systems into secure cloud, hybrid, or containerized architectures, ensuring resilience, scalability, and future ready capability delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Program Leadership of Large-Scale Program: Direct full-lifecycle development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of mission software systems spanning analytics, cyber, geospatial, and enterprise data workflows.
- Mission-Critical Delivery: Oversee development and sustainment of classified systems of systems supporting warfighter intelligence, operational planning, and strategic decision-making using Agile Execution methodologies and strategies to implement and enforce enterprise Agile practices, Program Increment Planning, CI/CD pipelines, and rapid prototyping methodologies across distributed teams.
- Customer Engagement & Strategy: Serve as the autonomous senior interface to government sponsors, shaping technical direction, resolving issues, and driving mission-aligned growth.
- Program Leadership: Develop and execute program with disciplined accountability of technical, schedule, and financial matters to maintain performance baselines and embolden customer confidence.
- Innovation & Prototyping: Drive rapid prototyping, IR&D initiatives, and technical fellowship-level solutioning to accelerate mission capability insertion and expand program growth opportunities.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience in software-intensive program leadership; or Master's degree with 12+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a polygraph once hired.
- Demonstrated leadership of large, geographically distributed engineering organizations delivering mission software across classified and unclassified environments. Distribution must be at least two or more physically/geographically separated locations.
- Proven success managing $20M+/year software development and sustainment portfolios.
- Deep experience with full-stack software development, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud, cyber, and enterprise data systems.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills spanning technical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Experience supporting business development, technical solutioning, and major proposal efforts with hands on knowledge/development of BOEs, RFP/RFI response generation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
- Experience delivering mission-critical classified systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
- Background in software architecture, cyber innovation, AI/ML integration, modeling/simulation, or enterprise modernization.
- Experience leading multi-discipline teams of 100+ personnel across diverse technical domains.
- Demonstrated ability to recover troubled programs, re-establish technical execution, and deliver under high-visibility conditions.
- Experience driving IR&D, rapid prototyping, and technical innovation pipelines aligned to mission needs.
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