Lead Technical Project Manager

About the role

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Project Manager (TPM) in our Enterprise Science Business Area specifically supporting our NASA customer. Join us and make a difference in NASA’s Mission!

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning, architecture alignment, schedule management, and execution across one or multiple NASA projects.
• Ensure project activities integrate engineering constraints, system lifecycles, technical readiness, and solution architecture.
• Identify and diagnose technical blockers, working directly with engineering and technical SMEs to enable faster issue resolution and to reduce schedule delays.
• Understand and challenge technical decisions and workflows rather than simply relaying them administratively.
• Coordinate across Engineering, Service Management, Infrastructure Ops, Security, Logistics, and SACM to ensure project outcomes are technically feasible and aligned with NEST enterprise architecture.
• Work with SMEs to define requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, external interfaces, technical measures, and constraints.
• Identify risks early (integration, architecture, technical constraints, scheduling) and drive mitigation strategies.
• Serve as the technical interface to WCS, OCIO, COR, center IT stakeholders, and SMEs, communicating engineering tradeoffs, solution impacts, and technical readiness.
• Oversee Technical Documentation, Governance, and Compliance; Coordinate Testing, Validation, and Deployment Readiness.
• Lead project management implementation in accordance with NASA and Leidos governance