Senior Technical Program Manager, Release, Mission Autonomy

Job description

Job responsibilities

• End-to-End Release Ownership: drive the software release process from planning to testing and deployment, ensuring on-time, stable releases that meet customer requirements
• Architect & Elevate Release Quality: define and continuously evolve quality gates, test strategies, and critical release metrics.
• Bridge Teams and Drive Execution: act as the connective tissue between engineering, test & evaluation, and program management, ensuring seamless execution across teams
• Strategic Prioritization & Decisive Execution: establish clear frameworks for prioritization, communication, and decision-making that help teams cut through ambiguity and focus on what matters.
• Continuous Process Improvement: architect and champion a release management process that balances speed with stability, seeking feedback and leveraging data to implement improvements that scale
• Transparency & Data-Driven Management: utilize and champion industry-standard program management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to track progress, manage issues, visualize key metrics, and facilitate transparent,…

Job requirements

• 4+ years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software development environments
• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
• Deep technical acumen: understand software development lifecycles, system architectures, testing methodologies, and quality assurance principles, enabling effective navigation of technical challenges and trade-offs
• Relentless prioritization: proven ability to identify, escalate, and drive critical path issues to resolution, ensuring release integrity and timeliness
• Exceptional communication: ability to effectively engage in technical discussions and translate technical details to diverse internal audiences
• Data-driven & analytical mindset: comfort leveraging metrics and analytics to drive decisions, measure release health, and continuously improve quality
• Highly organized: Able to manage concurrent priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Direct experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced software build systems in a complex, multi-component environment.