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# Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Burke, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $131,300.0 - $237,350.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Cadence Virtuoso, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Hardware Infrastructure, Cyber Warfare, Devsecops, Static Application Security Testing, Vulnerability Analysis, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usaada998dbeae2605485a11e22187bee2/eaa

## About the Role

* 10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.
 * Experience owning technical delivery from concept through production release, including scoping, sequencing, and driving execution across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority.
 * Technical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level. Hands-on engineering background preferred.
 * Experience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.
 * Experience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.
 * Experience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.
 * Demonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.

Relevant Skills:
Program Execution

 * Roadmap development, release planning, and cadence management, actual/planned program financials
 * Cross-team dependency mapping and critical path management
 * Risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation
 * Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban at team and program level
 * Program metrics and reporting, including Release Health, and Progress Briefs, * Software development lifecycle and DevSecOps pipelines
 * CI/CD, build integrity, and release engineering
 * Cloud and on-premises infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes
 * API and integration planning across systems and vendors
 * Vulnerability management workflows and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA)
 * AI/LLM system delivery, including evaluation frameworks, model orchestration, and benchmarking, * Prior experience supporting vulnerability research, offensive security, or cyber operations programs
 * Experience transitioning research or prototype capability into a sustained product
 * Active security clearance
 * Certifications such as PMP

## Description

Responsibilities could span roadmap and release planning, dependency management across model providers and third-party components, and coordination of accreditation and deployment timelines for a range of implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager will maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.