Program Manager, Software Development

About the role

Vantor is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead the Kestrel and FALCON efforts. This role can be performed remotely within the continental United States.

Responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end execution of the Falcon program, including customer engagement, CPFF contract execution, financial performance, staffing, personnel management, technical delivery, deliverables, schedule, risk, and issue management.
• Leading, coordinating, and supporting a team of approximately 12-16 personnel across software engineering, data science, systems engineering, and technical support functions.
• Managing program financial management, including CPFF execution, cost tracking, burn rates, staffing plans, forecasts, EAC inputs, invoice support, and coordination with finance and contracts teams.
• Maintaining program deliverables, milestones, schedules, risks, dependencies, and action items with clear ownership and follow-through.
• Serving as the primary Program Manager responsible for overall Kestrel and FALCON execution, performance, delivery, and customer satisfaction.
• Partnering with technical leads to ensure software, data science, and analytics efforts are scoped, staffed, prioritized, and delivered in alignment with mission needs.
• Supporting agile planning and execution across sprint, release, roadmap, and backlog management activities.
• Translating customer priorities into actionable program plans, technical workstreams, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Providing hands-on technical management and informed decision-making across software development, data pipelines, analytics, system integration, and operational support activities.
• Supporting recruiting, onboarding, performance feedback, team development, and personnel issue resolution.
• Maintaining strong internal coordination with leadership, capture, contracts, finance, security, and talent acquisition stakeholders.
• Identifying growth opportunities, shaping future work, and helping position Falcon for continued mission impact and customer partnership.

  Requirements

  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, program management, or a related field.
  • Four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
  • A master's degree may count as an additional 2 years of experience.
  • 6+ years of demonstrated professional experience in program management, technical project management, software delivery management, systems engineering management, data science support, or related technical leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience managing software, data science, analytics, systems engineering, or mission technology programs or teams.
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams, including direct or matrixed leadership of engineers, data scientists, analysts, or technical support personnel.
  • Experience managing customer-facing program execution, including status reporting, planning, deliverable coordination, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Experience supporting contract, cost, schedule, staffing, and deliverable performance in a government contracting environment.
  • Working knowledge of agile software development practices and tools, such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based workflows.
  • Tech fluency and comfort engaging with engineering and data science teams on software delivery, data pipelines, analytics, APIs, cloud-like environments, integration challenges, and operational support considerations.
  • Willingness to work in a remote setting or nearby Vantor facility and communicate via video calls.

    Qualifications

    • Minimum qualifications: Must be a U.S. citizen. Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, program management, or a related field. Six years of relevant experience.
    • Preferred qualifications: Experience serving as the Program Manager or Deputy Program Manager for a CPFF, T&M, or mixed contract environment. Experience managing program execution, including cost performance, staffing plans, burn rates, EAC inputs, funding awareness, and coordination with finance and contracts stakeholders. Experience supporting Department of Homeland Security, specifically CBP and DHS S&T. Hands-on background in software engineering, systems engineering, data engineering, data science, analytics, or technical delivery prior to moving into program or technical management. Experience managing teams that build, deploy, and sustain software applications, analytical capabilities, data pipelines, or mission support tools in a cloud environment. Exposure to cloud or cloud-like environments, containerized deployments, CI/CD workflows, streaming data architectures, APIs, databases, and modern software delivery practices. Experience leading roadmap, backlog, sprint, release, and prioritization activities in partnership with technical leads and customer stakeholders. Strong ability to translate between customer mission needs, technical implementation details, contractual requirements, and business execution priorities. Ability to identify program risks early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and drive timely resolution across internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to build trust with customers while maintaining accountability for scope, cost, schedule, quality, and team performance. Strong verbal, written, documentation, briefing, facilitation, and organizational skills.

      Benefits

      Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

      Pay

      The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $156,000.00 - $208,000.00 - $228,800.00 annually. For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.