Program Delivery Lead - Deputy Manager, Tech & Mission

Battelle; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 128,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Battelle is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to plan, align, and deliver complex technology programs for government and mission-focused customers. You will work with the Senior Program Manager and lead cross-functional teams to drive integrated planning, stakeholder alignment, and successful delivery outcomes.

The role requires strong program management experience in technology environments, with responsibilities spanning requirements development, integration, testing, governance, and customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, computer science, physical science, business, program management, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience with complex technical programs, projects, or portfolios.
• 5+ years of project and/or program management experience in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage technology program delivery across scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, deliverables, and cross-functional teams.
• Background in requirements development, technical planning, systems integration, testing, mission support, or related execution activities.
• Ability to develop and maintain program management artifacts, including integrated schedules, trackers, status reports, briefing materials, and decision-support documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage technical teams, non-technical audiences, customer stakeholders, senior leaders, and external partners.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required for meetings, site assessments, technical reviews, and key program activities.
• Active security clearance, or ability to obtain and maintain one, as required by the program.
• Ability to satisfy contract-specific security, access, compliance, and export-related requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Senior Program Manager to manage day-to-day delivery of complex technology programs across multiple workstreams.
• Establish, maintain, and improve program management processes that align scope, schedule, resources, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain key program artifacts, including integrated schedules, milestone plans, action trackers, risk and issue logs, and status reports.
• Facilitate kickoff meetings, program reviews, technical exchange meetings, working groups, and leadership briefings.
• Identify, track, and escalation risks, issues, schedule variances, and dependencies that may affect delivery.
• Collect, analyze, and track operational and technical requirements to inform planning and delivery.
• Develop and maintain planning artifacts such as requirements trackers, assumption logs, architecture inputs, and decision-support materials.
• Work with technical leads on system architecture, interface planning, interoperability, and integration of hardware, software, communications, sensors, and data systems.
• Plan integration activities across complex operating environments, ensuring cybersecurity, safety, operational suitability, and mission objectives.
• Conduct and support capability assessments, infrastructure reviews, gap analyses, site visits, requirements collection, technical reviews, and capability planning activities.
• Evaluate emerging and existing technologies for mission relevance, maturity, interoperability, scalability, and risk.
• Organize prototype, pilot, experimentation, test, and evaluation activities that inform solution readiness and program decisions.
• Document lessons learned, results, recommendations, and performance information to support iterative improvement.
• Assist with transition, fielding, scaling, and handoff planning for validated solutions.
• Maintain governance processes that provide visibility, accountability, cross-functional alignment, and effective risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Engage customers, mission partners, industry, academia, domestic and international stakeholders, and internal teams.
• Prepare status updates, briefings, meeting materials, and decision-support packages for technical, non-technical, and leadership audiences.
• Ensure collaboration aligns with applicable security, compliance, and export requirements.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements development

Systems integration

Technical planning

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Battelle is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to plan, align, and deliver complex technology programs for government and mission-focused customers. You will work with the Senior Program Manager and lead cross-functional teams to drive integrated planning, stakeholder alignment, and successful delivery outcomes.

The role requires strong program management experience in technology environments, with responsibilities spanning requirements development, integration, testing, governance, and customer