Program Director

Description

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ mission success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. Our workforce enjoys career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development, while experiencing rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is ahead.

If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, then keep reading because Leidos is seeking a senior program manager to lead the full-lifecycle software development and delivery of a portfolio of analytical and geospatial mission systems. Our customer provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and force planners across the Department of War and the Intelligence Community.

This Key Program Manager position offers a career building, high-impact opportunity for the right leader. The position is responsible for planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of program goals and objectives. Duties will include ensuring that all capabilities are delivered within scope, time, and budget constraints.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Communication – technical, people, and business acumen in software development and delivery are essential as this role acts as the autonomous, primary interface to the government customer – managing communication and program deliverables
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) – leads and collaborates with multi-disciplined team with courage and conviction that Influences development of solutions that impact strategic and tactical results.
• Project Management Expertise – actively resource Program Increment Planning (PIPe), balance cost-schedule-feature/fix constraints with effective risk and opportunity management discipline.
• Inspirational – model ‘…. We could be even better if… ‘ with high sense of urgency.
• Inspirational Leadership – Inspires continuous improvement by challenging the status quo and driving higher performance with urgency. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 + years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 + years of prior relevant experience in program and project management and/or software development lifecycle; Or 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Must currently possess an active TS/SCI, with ability to obtain a Polygraph post hire
• Ability to manage complexity and priorities with many systems (dozens) aligned to customer/mission needs.
• Demonstrable written and verbal communications skills spanning all levels of an organization.
• Experience managing large, multi-disciplined team of professionals that are distributed across timezones, working on unclassified and classified domains/delivery systems of systems.
• Experience supporting business development and on-contract growth activities including responding to RFIs, RFPs, BOEs, and other customer acquisition requests.

Preferred Qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Experience with classified mission critical system development and delivery for department of war and/or intelligence community.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

July 2, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

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. For more information, visit .

Pay and Benefits

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.