Program Integration & Execution Lead

Clearance Required: Active Top Secret

Make Mission Execution Happen

Are you the person who can look across a complex program connect the dots identify what could derail execution and drive teams toward results

Leidos is seeking a Program Integration & Execution Lead to support the C5ISR Center Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP)a mission-critical defensive cyber operations organization protecting complex enterprise environments 24x7x365.

The CSSP delivers continuous monitoring threat detection incident response vulnerability management and other critical cybersecurity capabilities. Behind those operations is a highly interconnected program involving technical teams operations engineering business functions leadership and customer stakeholders.

That is where you come in.

As the Program Integration & Execution Lead you will create and manage the integrated execution framework that keeps the entire program aligned. You will connect priorities schedules resources dependencies risks decisions commitments and performance into one clear Program Operating Picture.

This is not simply a scheduling or status-reporting position.

You will have the visibility and responsibility to determine whether plans are executable commitments are realistic dependencies are understood resources are aligned and corrective actions are actually solving problems.

You will serve as a trusted execution partner to the Program Manager Operations Manager Chief Engineer Quality Engineer technical leads functional leaders and customer stakeholders.

What Youll Own

• Establish maintain and continuously improve the Program Operating Picture creating an authoritative enterprise view of program execution.
• Own and maintain the program-level Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Ensure schedules accurately reflect priorities dependencies capacity risks milestones and credible delivery dates.
• Integrate major workstreams customer commitments milestones risks issues decisions actions and deliverables across functional teams.
• Maintain an enterprise-level view showing what is being delivered who owns it when it is due and what could impact delivery.
• Establish program-level planning prioritization intake and deconfliction processes.

You wont just track workyoull help make sure it gets done.

• Evaluate new commitments against priorities resource capacity dependencies readiness and competing work before delivery dates are established.
• Identify schedule conflicts resource contention dependency risks decision delays and execution gaps before they become mission-impacting problems.
• Drive issues and actions to closure through clearly defined ownership deadlines escalation criteria and objective evidence.
• Maintain traceability between customer commitments program priorities execution plans responsible owners and final closure.

Readiness Quality & Process Improvement

• Establish practical program-level processes for planning handoffs escalation readiness quality assurance action management and closure.
• Conduct execution reviews to determine whether processes are working as intended and teams are delivering against expectations.
• Develop readiness and stage-gate criteria for major capabilities projects transitions releases and complex operational changes.
• Verify that capabilities are operationally readynot simply technically complete.
• Partner with Quality Engineering to identify recurring process failures missed handoffs aging issues and accountability gaps.
• Lead or support root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts that address underlying problems rather than simply closing administrative actions.

Metrics Analytics & Executive Visibility

Turn complex program data into information leaders can act on.

Develop and track meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) covering:

• Schedule performance
• Commitment performance
• Aging actions
• Dependency resolution
• BacklogWorkload and capacityRisks and decisions
• Operational readiness
• Closure effectiveness
• Build and maintain dashboards and executive reporting using tools such as Power BI Excel Jira Salesforce Microsoft Project Primavera ServiceNow or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Facilitate program execution reviews focused on decisions risks blockers priorities and actionsnot status reporting for the sake of status reporting.
• Provide leadership with data-driven recommendations regarding priorities resource tradeoffs schedule commitments escalation and corrective actions.

Connect Engineering Operations & Program Leadership

• Partner with the Chief Engineer to integrate engineering milestones technical dependencies architecture decisions technical risks and readiness criteria into the overall program plan.
• Work with Operations and functional leaders to evaluate workload resource capacity execution constraints and key-person dependencies.
• Coordinate execution across multiple technical and functional organizations.
• Reinforce a culture of proactive ownership disciplined execution measurable accountability and continuous improvement.

What Youll Bring

• Significant experience in program management program integration portfolio management operations management program controls or complex technical delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated schedules cross-functional dependencies risks issues actions commitments and program-level execution.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) or comparable enterprise planning construct.
• Ability to integrate technical operational business and customer activities into a single executable program plan.
• Experience developing dashboards executive reporting and management operating views for complex programs.
• Strong proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Project Primavera Excel Power BI Jira Salesforce ServiceNow or similar scheduling workflow reporting and analytical platforms.
• Experience developing SOPs governance processes workflows readiness criteria and accountability mechanisms.
• Experience with root-cause analysis corrective-action management process improvement and execution assurance.
• Ability to use objective data to challenge unrealistic schedules unsupported commitments incomplete plans and unclear ownership.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using schedule workload operational and performance data to support leadership decisions.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple technical and functional organizations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams senior leadership and government/customer stakeholders.
• Excellent organization follow-through critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to succeed with limited direction in a fast-paced high-visibility environment with competing priorities.
• Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Information Technology Program Management Operations and 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 13 years of prior relevant experience.. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements consistent with company policy.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• Professional certification such as PMP PMI-SP PgMP Lean Six Sigma SAFe or a related certification.

Preferred Qualifications

Were especially interested in candidates who bring experience with:

• Large Department of Defense Intelligence Community cybersecurity IT or mission operations programs.
• Advanced Power BI dashboard and executive reporting development.
• Complex Integrated Master Schedules including critical-path and schedule-risk analysis.
• Jira Salesforce ServiceNow Microsoft Project Primavera or similar enterprise work-management platforms.
• Establishing or operating an enterprise PMO or Program Integration Office.
• Operational assurance quality management readiness reviews audits or compliance-driven environments.
• Capacity planning workforce/workload analysis resource forecasting and portfolio prioritization.
• Agile DevSecOps cybersecurity operations cloud infrastructure or enterprise IT environments.
• Developing RACI models decision-right frameworks escalation models and cross-team operating processes.
• Translating large amounts of program data into simple executive-level insights and actionable decisions.

Why This Role Matters

This position sits at the intersection of strategy and execution.

Youll have visibility across the program and help leadership answer the questions that matter:

Are we working on the right priorities
Can we realistically deliver what weve committed to
Where are the dependencies and risks
What decisions need to be made now
Are we truly ready to execute
Did the corrective action actually solve the problem

If youre someone who can bring structure to complexity connect technical and operational teams challenge assumptions with data and turn plans into measurable execution we want to hear from you.

At Leidos the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our employees with meaningful assignments that support critical missions while providing opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

Ready to help drive execution for a mission that matters Apply today.

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

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