Vice President, Program Manager

Leidos; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 199,000 - 321,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Huntsville, Alabama seeks a Vice President, Program Manager to drive high‑impact IT and enterprise service delivery across networks, cloud, compute, and cybersecurity. The role emphasizes strategic vision, execution excellence, and customer satisfaction for mission‑critical programs.

The leader will manage a multi‑million dollar program, coordinate with government stakeholders, and ensure on‑time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and cost control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Specialized experience with performance-based/cost contract management and program leadership for IT infra.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management, ITIL, ISO-9001/CMMI, Agile/Dev-Ops, and related best practices.
• Proven ability to develop strategic roadmaps for IT services and oversee implementations.
• Experience communicating with senior executives and driving cross-organizational alignment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with government stakeholders and industry to deliver seamless service delivery and modernized infrastructure.
• Enable information sharing and visualization for timely decision support.
• Serve as customer’s primary contact and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Lead day-to-day execution of enterprise activities per contract requirements, optimizing resources and performance.
• Define project baselines, execution, quality and efficiency per requirements.
• Proactively manage issues and risks with mitigation strategies.
• Maintain compliance with organizational standards and drive exceptional customer satisfaction.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic planning

Program leadership

Earned Value Management

ITIL

CMMI

Agile/Dev-Ops

Contract management

Roadmapping IT services

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT/CS/IS or related

Master’s Degree in IT/CS/IS or related

Job description

Description

Leidos’ Digital Sector is seeking a Vice President, Program Manager with executive presence located in Huntsville, Alabama.

POSITION SUMMARY

The successful leader will drive exceptional performance execution, delivering industry best practice and cutting‑edge solutions that support complex service delivery for customer networks, telecommunications, cloud, compute and storage, cybersecurity and enterprise services to achieve mission success. This role prioritizes strategic vision for consistent and reliable Information Technology (IT) service delivery and operations leading to excellent customer experiences while proactively ensuring reliable, innovative, and secure services across the enterprise.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, with a preference of being cleared immediately upon start. (US Citizenship Required)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful leader will thrive in thought leadership and transparent management of a multi‑million dollar program, ensuring a scalable management and technical approach providing mission‑focused, high quality and on‑time delivery of service; effectively collaborating to obtain and synthesize mission requirements from various stakeholders, while simultaneously driving team performance to leverage industry best practices; seamlessly managing resources, budget, schedule, customer engagement; ensuring high end‑user satisfaction; and possessing excellent communication skills.

• Successfully and strategically partner with government stakeholders and industry to provide seamless service delivery best practices and modernized infrastructure technology and systems in accordance with customer needs and priorities.
• Enable exceptional information sharing and visualization capabilities across the enterprise for transparent and timely decision support.
• Serve as the customer’s primary contact and maintain a high degree of collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Lead, manage and integrate day‑to‑day execution of enterprise activities in accordance with contract requirements and ensure optimal use of resources for superior technical, schedule, and financial performance. This includes experience estimating technical and operations costs within the enterprise.
• Where applicable, ensure defined project baselines, execution, quality and efficiency in accordance with requirements.
• Proactively manage issues and risks, developing mitigation strategies and facilitating resolution in collaboration with the government.
• Maintain and ensure compliance with organizational standards of exceptional customer satisfaction.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 15+ years combined experience managing and/or executing the planning, provisioning, and delivery of technically complex enterprise‑level projects and operations across multiple related IT disciplines throughout the project lifecycle for large organizations.
• Specialized Experience: At least five years of recent/relevant experience providing performance‑based/cost contract management and program leadership for a broad range of technologies to include but not limited to: Network Infrastructure Operations, Defensive Cyber Operations, Data Center Compute and Storage, and Cloud Technologies. This includes regular communication with the supported organization’s senior executives and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Earned Value Management, ITIL, ISO-9001:2000 / CMMI, Agile/Dev-Ops, and related industry/government best practices.
• Proven experience defining and executing long- and short-term business objectives, to include developing strategic roadmaps for IT services and providing management oversight to ensure developed solutions, satisfy customer and business requirements.
• Proven experience identifying and assessing business impacts to proposed changes of technical solutions or enterprise operations.
• Proven ability delivering exceptional customer experience and achieving operational excellence in reliable and effective IT services and systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing in a geographically dispersed and diverse customer environment focused on outcome-based performance.
• Demonstrated ability building trusted, cross‑organizational relationships with peers, employees, leadership and stakeholder communities to improve transparency, communication and alignment of customer priorities.
• Exceptional ability extending a culture where employees are inspired and motivated to succeed through inclusion, collaboration, commitment, and clear / open communications.
• Possesses the highest ethical standards, demonstrated by day‑to‑day actions as well as setting the ethical tone for the organization.
• Ability to travel as required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Relevant experience managing fixed price contracts
• PMP Certification
• Agile/Dev-Ops Certification
• ITIL Certification

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

ORIGINAL POSTING

August 12, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

PAY RANGE

Pay Range $199,300.00 - $320,625.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

ABOUT LEIDOS

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.

PAY AND BENEFITS

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

SECURING YOUR DATA

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If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

COMMITMENT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.