Remote Deputy Program Manager - Enterprise IT & AI/Cloud

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks an experienced Deputy Program Manager to lead the Summit ATLAS program for VA, coordinating delivery across multiple workstreams and ensuring performance within cost constraints.

The role requires senior-level program management with federal IT experience, strong stakeholder communication, and the ability to operate in a security-conscious, remote-enabled environment across the continental United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience, including 4+ years leading or supervising teams or complex projects.
• Experience managing delivery of complex enterprise IT, cloud, data, analytics, or software programs with multiple technical disciplines and interdependent workstreams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage schedules, staffing, budgets, risks, deliverables, and customer expectations, including coordination of subcontractor or partner teams.
• Experience with Agile or product-centric delivery, cross-team dependencies, and operational performance measures.
• Ability to lead technical and customer-facing teams, resolve competing priorities, communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, and deliver under demanding timelines.
• Working knowledge of federal IT security, personnel onboarding, and service-management concepts sufficient to coordinate specialist teams and Government dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting federal government IT contracts, including contract performance, schedule and financial management, subcontractor coordination, and compliance with contractual deliverables and reporting requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required VA Public Trust suitability determination.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily execution across assigned PWS workstreams; coordinate delivery teams, shared technical specialists, and subcontractor partners against one integrated backlog and schedule.
• Serve as the designated backup to the Program Manager, assuming program-level coordination, customer engagement, operational oversight, and decision-making responsibilities during the PM's absence, within delegated authority.
• Translate VA priorities into actionable work plans, milestones, staffing assignments, delivery forecasts, and measurable outcomes; coordinate Agile/product-centric planning and reviews.
• Manage staffing readiness, resource utilization, recruiting needs, performance, and succession/backup coverage within assigned workstreams; coordinate VA onboarding, access dependencies, and operational readiness.
• Monitor assigned workstream budgets, labor mix, subcontractor expenditures, and forecast performance; identify staffing or delivery decisions that could erode contract margins and recommend corrective action to the Program Manager.
• Maintain risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action logs; oversee deliverable quality, timeliness, reporting, service levels, and corrective actions within assigned workstreams; elevate significant issues to the Program Manager and appropriate VA stakeholders.
• Coordinate with VA stakeholders, product owners, technical leads, security personnel, and subcontractors to resolve priorities, approvals, handoffs, and operational problems.
• Support transition-in and steady-state operations, including incumbent knowledge transfer, service continuity, and operational handover; promote process improvement, automation, and measurable productivity gains.
• Provide management escalation support for urgent incidents when required.

Skills

Project leadership

Program management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Federal IT contracts

VA/DoD familiarity

Risk management

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree

PM/PgMP/CSM/SAFe certifications

Tools

Azure

ServiceNow

DevSecOps

Cybersecurity basics

AI/ML enablement

Job description

Leidos seeks an experienced Deputy Program Manager to lead the Summit ATLAS program for VA, coordinating delivery across multiple workstreams and ensuring performance within cost constraints.

The role requires senior-level program management with federal IT experience, strong stakeholder communication, and the ability to operate in a security-conscious, remote-enabled environment across the continental United States.