Defense Program Manager: End-to-End Ownership & Architecture

Mosaic.tech; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing government reference architecture portfolio. You will be the single point of ownership for the programs, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep technical, cost, and schedule baselines aligned and commitments met.

This role blends architectural fluency with execution discipline, enabling you to represent program status to the customer and drive milestone and risk

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in program management 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: planning, driving, and delivering CDRLs — compliance with data item descriptions.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, contracts, finance, and security.
• Proven track record as the primary interface to a government program office, running program reviews and technical interchange meetings.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, and resources to achieve program objectives, including EAC/ETC forecasts.
• Highly organized: able to manage concurrent programs and competing priorities.

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

Systems engineering

Software engineering

Secret clearance

Government programs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Systems Engineering

Advanced technical degree

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing government reference architecture portfolio. You will be the single point of ownership for the programs, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep technical, cost, and schedule baselines aligned and commitments met.

This role blends architectural fluency with execution discipline, enabling you to represent program status to the customer and drive milestone and risk