# Senior Program Manager **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Alexandria, VA **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Alexandria-VA/Senior-Program-Manager_R-00190558?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_353b081f-754 ## Description The Decision Advantage (DA) Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a TS/SCI cleared Senior Program Manager in Alexandria, VA. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of mission optimization capabilities for a classified customer, applying agile software development practices to extend and tailor a mature commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product to meet demanding operational mission needs. The role blends hands-on agile program leadership with product thinking: balancing COTS product baseline alignment, mission-specific customization, release planning, and sustainment in a secure, fast-moving environment. **Primary responsibilities** - Serve as the single point of accountability for program execution, including cost, schedule, technical baseline, risk, quality, and customer satisfaction. - Lead agile software delivery of an existing COTS product,owning release planning, backlog prioritization, sprint cadence, increment reviews, and definition of done in partnership with the product owner and technical lead. - Manage the program financial baseline, including EAC/ETC development, monthly financial reviews, variance analysis, funding and staffing plans, and achievement of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) commitments. - Engage directly with the customer's program office and mission users to build trusted relationships, translate mission optimization needs into prioritized requirements, and ensure delivery excellence and satisfaction. - Balance COTS product baseline integrity against mission-specific customization,working with the product organization to determine what is configured, extended, or contributed back to the core product. - Communicate clearly and proactively with leadership, employees, peers, and customers to ensure transparency and shared understanding of goals, risks, dependencies, and outcomes. - Own risk and opportunity management, including identification, mitigation planning, and escalation of issues that threaten cost, schedule, or mission outcomes. - Lead with a focus on team cohesion, collaboration, and a high-performance culture aligned to Leidos values and mission outcomes. - Coordinate cross-functional efforts across Leidos,engineering, security, contracts, subcontracts, finance, talent acquisition, and the COTS product organization,to integrate capabilities and maximize mission and business outcomes. - Ensure program compliance with all applicable security requirements, classification guidance, contractual obligations, and Leidos program management standards. - Support organic growth by identifying follow-on and adjacent opportunities, contributing to capture and proposal efforts, and demonstrating past performance that strengthens recompete position. - Travel as required to support customer engagements, program reviews, and execution activities. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 12+ years of relevant experience; Master's Degree and 10+ years of relevant experience. - Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance; must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI/Poly and program access. - Demonstrated success managing software development programs with full cost, schedule, and technical accountability. - Hands-on experience leading agile software development teams (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, or similar), including backlog management, release planning, and iterative delivery to an operational user base. - Experience executing programs within classified environments, including working within security constraints, classification guidance, and accredited development enclaves. - Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills,able to influence and align diverse stakeholders including customers, technical teams, and internal leadership. - Proven ability to analyze, solve, and execute complex technical and business challenges while instilling confidence among customers, staff, and senior leadership. - Demonstrated experience interviewing, hiring, staffing, and developing multi-disciplinary project teams. - Bias for action with a willingness to personally engage at the point of execution,removing friction, driving decisions, and delivering outcomes at speed. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience delivering, integrating, configuring, or extending a COTS or commercial software product in a government or mission environment. - Experience with mission planning, mission optimization, resource allocation, scheduling, or operations research–based decision support solutions. - PMP, PgMP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or equivalent certification. - Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, cloud or hybrid deployment, and software ATO/accreditation processes in classified environments. - Experience supporting Special Access Programs (SAPs) or other highly controlled environments. - Working knowledge of multiple contract types (FFP, CPFF, T&M) and their impact on agile delivery and program financial management. - Experience managing subcontractors, product vendors, and teaming partners across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). - Experience briefing senior internal and external stakeholders. - Demonstrated success growing scope on an existing program through delivery performance and customer trust. ## Skills ### Required - agile software development - program management - cost management - schedule management - technical leadership - communication - relationship-building - risk management ### Nice to have - DevSecOps - CI/CD pipelines - cloud deployment - software ATO/accreditation - Special Access Programs - contract management - subcontractor management - senior stakeholder briefing --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Alexandria-VA/Senior-Program-Manager_R-00190558?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)