Description
We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) to oversee the software release lifecycle within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S).
In this role, you'll serve as the operational backbone for our release cycles, partnering with engineering leadership to ensure on-time, high-quality software releases to support our customers. You'll bring both strategic systems thinking and execution excellence: blending your ability to proactively identify dependencies and technical risks with an unwavering bias for action and a deep commitment to product quality. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and loves building processes that scale.
As a TPM, you will be responsible for driving the software release process from planning to testing and deployment, ensuring on-time, stable releases that meet customer requirements. You will define and continuously evolve quality gates, test strategies, and critical release metrics. You will partner closely with engineering teams to ensure rigorous testing and embed quality at every stage of the development and release pipeline.
You will act as the connective tissue between engineering, test & evaluation, and program management, ensuring seamless execution across teams. You will establish clear frameworks for prioritization, communication, and decision-making that help teams cut through ambiguity and focus on what matters. You will rapidly assess technical risks and identify critical release blockers, developing actionable plans to drive issues to resolution.
You will architect and champion a release management process that balances speed with stability, seeking feedback and leveraging data to implement improvements that scale. You will utilise and champion industry-standard program management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to track progress, manage issues, visualise key metrics, and facilitate transparent, real-time communication across stakeholders.
Key qualifications for this role include 4+ years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software development environments. You should have a deep technical acumen, understanding software development lifecycles, system architectures, testing methodologies, and quality assurance principles. You should be able to identify, escalate, and drive critical path issues to resolution, ensuring release integrity and timeliness.
You should also have exceptional communication skills, being able to effectively engage in technical discussions and translate technical details to diverse internal audiences. You should be able to leverage metrics and analytics to drive decisions, measure release health, and continuously improve quality. You should be highly organised, able to manage concurrent priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Desired qualifications include direct experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced software build systems in a complex, multi-component environment. A background in defence, hardware, autonomy, or robotics deployments, with an understanding of associated mission-critical quality standards, would be beneficial. You should be able to thrive and provide strategic direction in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments with minimal oversight.
Salary range: $132,000 - $198,000 per year.