Vice President, Program Manager

Leidos’ Digital Sector is seeking a Vice President, Program Manager with executive presence located in Huntsville, Alabama.

About the Role

The successful leader will drive exceptional performance execution, delivering industry best practices and cutting-edge solutions that support complex service delivery for customer networks, telecommunications, cloud, compute and storage, cybersecurity, and enterprise services to achieve mission success. This role prioritizes strategic vision for consistent and reliable Information Technology (IT) service delivery and operations, leading to excellent customer experiences while proactively ensuring reliable, innovative, and secure services across the enterprise.

Clearance Requirement

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, with a preference of being cleared immediately upon start. (US Citizenship Required)

Responsibilities

• Thrive in thought leadership and transparent management of a multi-million dollar program, ensuring a scalable management and technical approach providing mission-focused, high-quality, and on-time delivery of service.
• Effectively collaborate to obtain and synthesize mission requirements from various stakeholders while driving team performance to leverage industry best practices.
• Seamlessly manage resources, budget, schedule, and customer engagement to ensure high end-user satisfaction with excellent communication skills.
• Strategically partner with government stakeholders and industry to provide seamless service delivery best practices and modernized infrastructure technology and systems in accordance with customer needs and priorities.
• Enable exceptional information sharing and visualization capabilities across the enterprise for transparent and timely decision support.
• Serve as the customer’s primary contact and maintain a high degree of collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Lead, manage, and integrate day-to-day execution of enterprise activities in accordance with contract requirements, ensuring optimal use of resources for superior technical, schedule, and financial performance, including estimating technical and operations costs within the enterprise.
• Ensure defined project baselines, execution, quality, and efficiency in accordance with requirements where applicable.
• Proactively manage issues and risks, developing mitigation strategies and facilitating resolution in collaboration with the government.
• Maintain and ensure compliance with organizational standards of exceptional customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 15+ years combined experience managing and/or executing the planning, provisioning, and delivery of technically complex enterprise-level projects and operations across multiple related IT disciplines throughout the project lifecycle for large organizations.
• At least five years of recent/relevant experience providing performance-based/cost contract management and program leadership for a broad range of technologies, including but not limited to: Network Infrastructure Operations, Defensive Cyber Operations, Data Center Compute and Storage, and Cloud Technologies. This includes regular communication with the supported organization’s senior executives and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Earned Value Management, ITIL, ISO-9001:2000 / CMMI, Agile/Dev-Ops, and related industry/government best practices.
• Proven experience defining and executing long- and short-term business objectives, including developing strategic roadmaps for IT services and providing management oversight to ensure developed solutions satisfy customer and business requirements.
• Proven experience identifying and assessing business impacts to proposed changes of technical solutions or enterprise operations.
• Proven ability delivering exceptional customer experience and achieving operational excellence in reliable and effective IT services and systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing in a geographically dispersed and diverse customer environment focused on outcome-based performance.
• Demonstrated ability building trusted, cross-organizational relationships with peers, employees, leadership, and stakeholder communities to improve transparency, communication, and alignment of customer priorities.
• Exceptional ability to extend a culture where employees are inspired and motivated to succeed through inclusion, collaboration, commitment, and clear/open communications.
• Possesses the highest ethical standards, demonstrated by day-to-day actions as well as setting the ethical tone for the organization.
• Ability to travel as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Relevant experience managing fixed price contracts.
• PMP Certification.
• Agile/Dev-Ops Certification.
• ITIL Certification.

Pay

Pay Range $199,300.00 - $320,625.00. The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.

Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave, and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.