Program Manager

SAIC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a highly skilled Business Program and Project Manager to support analytic, operational, and strategic objectives by sustaining critical intelligence activities and enabling rapid adaptation to a changing environment. This contingent role is a KEY position with a proposed start date of 01/18/2027, located in Chantilly, VA and McLean, VA, requiring leadership and IC-aligned financial management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years of related experience; master's and 8+ years; PhD or JD and 5+ years.

Responsibilities

• Streamline complex operational workflows and improve mission execution by reducing handoffs and barriers.
• Integrate travel-management capabilities with authorization workflows, documentation management, compliance checks, and governance/audit controls.
• Provide leadership with real-time insight into workforce distribution, travel patterns, personnel availability, and staffing levels.

Skills

Resource management

Financial management

Cross-agency coordination

Budget formulation

Cost estimation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD/JD

Tools

Financial management software

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a highly skilled Business Program and Project Manager to provide business support that directly advances the customer's analytic, operational, and strategic objectives by sustaining critical intelligence activities and enabling continuous adaptation to a changing operational environment.

POSITION IS CONTINGENT PENDING CONTRACT AWARD

This is a KEY role ; this means that the sponsor will expect the candidate to be available and ready to start on the proposed start date. The estimated proposed start date is 01/18/2027.

This position will be in Chantilly, VA. and McLean, VA.

SAIC seeks talented, qualified applicants with the following skill sets:

• Streamline complex operational workflows by simplifying decision paths, reducing unnecessary handoffs, and removing barriers to timely mission execution, improving the organization’s ability to respond to emerging requirements.
• Integrate federally compliant travel-management capabilities into the platform including authorization workflows, documentation management, compliance checks, and governance/audit controls to support full lifecycle travel processing and accurate record-keeping.
• Provide leadership with real-time insight into workforce distribution, travel patterns, personnel availability, and mission-critical staffing levels, leveraging large-scale workforce tracking approaches proven in enterprise solutions.
• Develop and maintain standardized process documentation and continuous workflow improvements, including templates, guidance, reporting artifacts, and optimization of duplicative processes and decision cadences, to reduce administrative burden, enhance coordination, and address key challenges identified by leadership.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; master's and eight (8) years or more experience; PHD or JD and five (5) years or more experience
• Minimum ten (10) years of hands-on resource management experience within the Intelligence Community, including workforce allocation, mission readiness planning, and cross-agency coordination in high-tempo operational environments.
• At least five (5) years of demonstrated proficiency using financial management software within IC programs.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end project finances. From initial budget formulation and cost estimation through obligation tracking, execution monitoring, variance analysis, and final closeout-within a classified or federally regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead financial and resource management activities across multiple concurrent projects or accounts, ensuring accuracy, compliance with federal standards, and alignment with mission priorities while operating under IC-unique constraints and approval processes.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion.

For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC.

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