Mission Delivery Lead

About the role

The Mission Delivery Lead serves as the senior leader responsible for Product Ownership, Agile governance, and execution baseline integrity across mission-critical ground system capabilities. This position provides leadership and oversight for product owners, release train engineers, and Scrum Masters, ensuring alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, execution plans, delivery commitments, and program performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the product owner organization, ensuring effective translation of mission priorities, technical objectives, and systems engineering intent into prioritized backlogs, executable work, acceptance criteria, and delivery commitments.
• Mentor release train engineers and Scrum Masters, establishing execution governance, planning discipline, dependency management practices, delivery reporting standards, and consistent execution processes across Agile teams.
• Establish and maintain governance of the execution baseline within Jira, ensuring alignment between approved requirements, features, priorities, implementation activities, verification activities, delivery commitments, and program reporting.
• Ensure alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, backlog priorities, and program execution activities.
• Facilitate alignment across mission engineering, product owners, software development teams, VV&T, and operations to ensure priorities, dependencies, implementation activities, verification activities, and delivery commitments remain synchronized throughout execution.
• Develop and maintain program-level execution metrics, delivery health assessments, forecasting models, and performance reporting.
• Support customer engagements, program reviews, executive briefings, and delivery assessments through data-driven analysis and recommendations.
• Identify systemic execution challenges and implement process improvements to improve delivery predictability, transparency, accountability, and performance.
• Collaborate with program leadership to establish execution priorities, resource allocation strategies, and delivery objectives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for execution concerns impacting delivery commitments, mission objectives, program performance, cost, or schedule.

Requirements

• Experience leading product owners, release train engineers, Scrum Masters, or cross-functional technical delivery organizations.
• Experience leading delivery efforts across systems engineering, software development, testing, and operational organizations.
• Experience governing execution baselines, delivery metrics, backlog structures, reporting, and planning activities within tools such as Jira.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and software development lifecycles within complex technical environments.
• Ability to translate technical objectives and mission priorities into executable work, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to assess and communicate impacts associated with changing priorities, emerging work, execution performance, resource constraints, technical risks, and delivery commitments.
• TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience supporting software development, systems engineering, integration, testing, operations, or mission-focused programs, or 14+ years of experience supporting software development, systems engineering, integration, testing, operations, or mission-focused programs in lieu of degree.

Skills

• Excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Benefits

Nice if you have:

• Experience serving as a systems engineer, software developer, technical lead, product owner, technical program manager, or comparable technical leadership role.
• Experience supporting large-scale government, defense, intelligence, or space-related programs.
• Experience supporting development, operations, and sustainment environments.
• Experience supporting program controls, EVM, forecasting, or integrated program performance management activities.
• Experience operating within SAFe or other large-scale Agile delivery frameworks.

Pay

$112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Remote, Hybrid, or Onsite options available. Details provided in job listing.