Defense Program Manager: Architecture & Delivery Lead

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 167,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing portfolio of government reference architecture programs. You’ll be the single point of ownership for the programs assigned to you, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep baselines aligned and commitments met.

You’ll bring architectural fluency and execution discipline, blending technical depth with rigor to drive milestones and risk burndown, and to represent

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive program management experience on government or defense programs.
• Active US Secret clearance.
• Experience with systems engineering and/or software engineering.
• Experience with government reference architectures.
• Contract deliverable ownership: hands-on experience planning, driving, and delivering CDRLs—managing submission schedules, internal authoring and review cycles, and compliance with data item descriptions.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, contracts, finance, and security in dynamic, high-pressure environments.
• Proven track record as the primary interface to a government program office, running program reviews and technical interchange meetings and representing program status directly to the customer.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, and resources to achieve program objectives, including tracking burn against funding and producing defensible EAC/ETC forecasts.
• Highly organized: able to manage concurrent programs and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Program Ownership.
• Program Financial Management.
• Architecture Fluency.
• CDRL & Contract Deliverable Management.
• Customer Relationship Ownership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration.
• Risk, Issue & Change Management.

Skills

Program management

Secret clearance

Systems engineering

Software engineering

Reference architectures

CDRL ownership

Stakeholder management

Budget & schedule

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing portfolio of government reference architecture programs. You’ll be the single point of ownership for the programs assigned to you, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep baselines aligned and commitments met.

You’ll bring architectural fluency and execution discipline, blending technical depth with rigor to drive milestones and risk burndown, and to represent