Sr. Program Manager – Flight Software Portfolio Management

Position Summary

This is a new role within the Flight Software Organization reporting to the Sr. Director of FSW and GNC. The Flight Software Program Manager will drive financial and operational excellence across the FSW portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive consistent cost-estimation tools, techniques, and practices across all existing FSW/GNC projects and proposal efforts.

• Monitor and analyze project cost performance, identifying variances and trends to drive actionable insights to the FSW leaders to maintain cost baselines.

• Cook up with Finance to drive proper cost allocation, tracking, and reporting across the FSW portfolio.

• Interface with proposal activities to estimate and justify FSW/GNC BOEs.

• Create dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide visibility into FSW organizations’ health.

• Collaborate with the FSW Leaders and FSW Chief Engineering team to align technical capability growth for current and future business needs, enabling proactive workforce planning and skills investment decisions.

• Facilitate regular and timely meetings with FSW leaders to review resource needs and project status, identify improvement opportunities, and implement process enhancements that drive efficiency.

• Collaborate with Business Development and Proposal Team to establish and maintain standardized WBS templates and frameworks for new business proposals.

• Create WBS dictionaries and guidelines to ensure uniform application across the organization.

• Ensure consistency in cost estimation approaches across all FSW bids and proposals.

• Serve as the central coordination point between FSW Leaders and other SW Teams (Ground Software, Integration and Test etc.), finance, and program stakeholders.

• Drive communication with the stakeholders to ensure that the dependencies to and from FSW are understood and met timely.

Technical Skills

• Financial & Cost Management:

  • Cost Accounting: Strong understanding of project cost accounting principles, indirect/direct cost allocation, and overhead structures.

  • Budgeting & Forecasting: Experience developing budgets, forecasts, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) analysis.

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Expert knowledge of WBS creation, standardization, and management.

• Financial Analysis: Ability to analyze financial data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights.

• Program & Project Management Scheduling & Planning: Proficiency with integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, risk management and milestone tracking.

• Resource Management: Experience with resource loading, capacity planning, and skills matrix development.

• Agile & Traditional PM: Understanding of both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

• Performance Metrics: Experience defining and tracking KPIs, dashboards, and program health indicators.

Technical Tools & Software

• MS Project

• SAP

• Jira

• Confluence

• SharePoint

• Advanced Excel

• Power BI

• Tableau

• or similar analytics tools

Estimation Tools

• Familiarity with parametric estimating tools and cost databases, particularly SEER-SEM.

Flight Software & Aerospace Domain

• FSW Development Lifecycle: Understanding of flight software development processes, phases, and deliverables.

• Aerospace Standards: Familiarity with industry standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150, CMMI) as applicable.

• Systems Engineering: Basic knowledge of systems engineering principles and V&V processes.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business/Finance.

• Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, engineering operations, program management, project controls, cost management, or related technical disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in FSW and Aerospace Project Management.

• PMP certification.

• Agile/Scrum certifications.