Program Lead

Sabel Systems; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabel Systems in Colorado Springs seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary technical team delivering digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs. You will set technical direction, manage schedules, budgets, and risk, and ensure alignment with security and DoD compliance.

The role emphasizes strategic oversight rather than day-to-day hands-on work, coaching engineers and coordinating across infrastructure, data science, and modeling domains to accelerate military capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership and mentorship to a multi-disciplinary technical team.
• Manage performance reviews, career development planning, recognition, and corrective actions as needed.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans including technical approach, schedule, resource allocation, risk management, and budget planning.
• Manage program schedule and milestones; track progress against planned deliverables; identify and mitigate schedule risks across multiple technical workstreams.
• Provide strategic technical oversight without day-to-day hands-on involvement; review technical approaches, designs, and decisions for alignment with program objectives across all domains.
• Ensure technical strategies for DevSecOps infrastructure, testing approaches, MBSE models, data science analytics, data fabric architecture, and modeling/simulation align with customer requirements, security standards, and DoD compliance requirements.
• Represent Sabel Systems professionally to the customer and prime contractor; serve as primary point of contact for technical and program matters.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable DoD regulations, security requirements, and contractual obligations; maintain classified information appropriately.
• Manage contract performance within defined scope, schedule, and budget; track earned value against planned performance.
• Identify opportunities to enhance team capabilities, improve processes, and advance technical approaches across all specialties.
• Develop and maintain program documentation including technical approach, architecture, design decisions, and implementation guides.

Job description

Why Sabel Systems

Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements.

Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions.

Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition. If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.

Complexity Simplified. Mission Amplified.

What You’ll Do

• Provide direct leadership and mentorship to a multi-disciplinary technical team including the DevSecOps Engineer, Test Subject Matter Expert, MBSE Subject Matter Expert, Data Scientist, Data Fabric Subject Matter Expert, and Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Subject Matter Expert; establish clear performance expectations, conduct regular one-on-one meetings with each team member, and support professional development across all technical domains
• Manage team performance including performance reviews, career development planning, recognition, and corrective actions as needed; foster cross-functional collaboration and integration across infrastructure security, quality assurance, systems engineering, data science, data management, and analytics/simulation specialties
• Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans including technical approach, schedule, resource allocation, risk management, and budget planning for a multi-disciplinary team
• Manage program schedule and milestones; track progress against planned deliverables; identify and mitigate schedule risks across multiple technical workstreams
• Provide strategic technical oversight without day-to-day hands-on involvement; review technical approaches, designs, and decisions for alignment with program objectives across all domains (infrastructure security, quality assurance, systems engineering, data science, data management, and modeling/simulation)
• Ensure technical strategies for DevSecOps infrastructure, testing approaches, MBSE models, data science analytics, data fabric architecture, and modeling/simulation align with customer requirements, security standards, and DoD compliance requirements
• Represent Sabel Systems professionally to the customer and prime contractor; serve as primary point of contact for technical and program matters
• Ensure compliance with all applicable DoD regulations, security requirements, and contractual obligations; maintain classified information appropriately
• Manage contract performance within defined scope, schedule, and budget; track earned value against planned performance
• Identify opportunities to enhance team capabilities, improve processes, and advance technical approaches across all specialties
• Develop and maintain program documentation including technical approach, architecture, design decisions, and implementation guides