Head of Programme Management

Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, and is responsible for translating an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.

Responsibilities could span roadmap and release planning, dependency management across model providers and third-party components, and coordination of accreditation and deployment timelines for a range of implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager will maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.

• Technical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level. Experience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.
• Experience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.
• Experience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.

Roadmap development, release planning, and cadence management, actual/planned program financials

Cross-team dependency mapping and critical path management

Risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation

Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban at team and program level

Software development lifecycle and DevSecOps pipelines

Cloud and on-premises infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes

API and integration planning across systems and vendors

Vulnerability management workflows and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA)

Prior experience supporting vulnerability research, offensive security, or cyber operations programs

Active security clearance

Certifications such as PMP,

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.

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