Program Manager with Security Clearance

Wingbrace is looking for an experienced Program manager for our Digital Engineering (DE) team in Lincoln, Ma. As a Program Manager you will be responsible for a growing team implementing and maintaining Digital Infrastructure, developing and maintaining a Knowledge Management Ecosystem and curating Digital Threads for science and technology projects advancing next generation US Air Force capabilities.
As Program Manager you will have internal and external relationships to cultivate and expand. You will leverage your consensus building skills to keep stakeholders focused and aligned on next steps to achieve outcomes in a systematic and timely fashion. You will balance your team's contractual delivery obligations while supporting our Business Development team on potential growth opportunities. You are comfortable coaching Agile concepts to Government stakeholders and your Wingbrace team, conducting retrospectives (after action reviews), and conversant in architecture concepts, systems, and technologies that enable improvements to Airforce capabilities. You hold yourself and teammates accountable for client delivery quality, responsiveness, and transparency. You are aligned with and become a Wingbrace ambassador for living our Values of Kindness, Creativity and Outcomes, which have distinguished Wingbrace in the marketplace for both our clients and employees. If you are up for a challenging PM role, highly visible with a direct impact on US Air Force capabilities, critical to company growth strategy, applies advanced research, technologies, and tools with a team of subject-matter experts, Wingbrace needs you. This position reports to the Senior Vice President of Global Delivery. Duties And Responsibilities General
• You will be experienced in Digital Engineering and Systems Engineering
• You will have a technical understanding of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and languages such as Dassault (NoMagic) Cameo Enterprise Architect, Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), and SysML (Systems Modeling Language)
• You will be conversant in Science and Technology-related projects Agile Delivery
• You will be empowered to make decisions about Agile Software Capability Development, Systems/Digital Engineering, System Administration oversight and delivery dependencies (licenses, partner agreements, etc.) for Wingbrace commitments
• You will plan and coordinate project roadmaps, assist Agile teams with refining backlogs, and aligning on program, release, sprint and story definitions of done
• You will identify and manage functional or cross-functional requirements, risks, issues, opportunities, and resources through achieving program objectives
• You will work directly with government stakeholders to set clear expectations, understand the needs and priorities to define and deliver solutions to enable mission outcomes
• You will manage and work with several leaders who have competing priorities. Therefore, attaining alignment among customer and Wingbrace stakeholders will be critical to the success of the program and the team
• You will lead the combined team in effective decision-making across a range of complex issues, including scope, design, and architecture, to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• You will manage the needs of our geographically disbursed, agile teams and be accountable to delivery commitments
• You will proxy Product Ownership (PO) responsibilities as needed to maintain delivery commitments (e.g., assist PO with roadmaps, stakeholder management suggestions, and build consensus around delivery priorities/objectives)
• You will coach Agile concepts to Government stakeholders and your Wingbrace team (e.g., facilitate retrospectives / after action reviews)
• Program Management
• You will review technical/agile team proposals or plans to determine schedule, funding limitations, procedures and delivery methodologies for accomplishing desired outcomes, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of projects in context of the overall program
• You will proactively manage risks to projects, client relationships, and the Wingbrace brand, ensuring a clear and measurable impact on client missions and increasing Wingbrace reputation
• You will manage to the project budget as well as seek opportunities to promote star performers while maintaining profit margin expectations
• You will monitor and ensure all deliverables across the project are being met, including, but not limited to Monthly Status Reports (MSRs), monthly invoices, scope changes, project variances, solution contingencies, timecard management, staffing and financial forecasting, partnership and sub-contractor management, and deliverable satisfaction
• You will always have a current program plan and suggest risk mitigation plans
• You will anticipate client and leadership needs and proactively take action
• You will lead all phases of assigned projects from initiation through delivery You will partner with the business development team and subject matter experts to solution and write responses to RFI (Request for Information) and RFPs (Requests for Proposals)
• You will be an example for our client stakeholders and your team, living the Wingbrace Core Values
• You will conduct performance reviews and provide continuous, meaningful feedback for Wingbrace team members across personal goals, professional development, individual contributions and team performance Business Development
• You will advise Wingbrace leadership on status or action required in connection with existing and potential business development opportunities to grow existing projects and teams impact to our clients
• You will actively cultivate existing and new relationships (e.g., walk the halls) You will partner with the business development team and subject matter experts to solution (e.g., develop basis of estimates) and write responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs)
• You will help grow the Wingbrace business and brand by expanding our local presence, with a hands-on approach to building systems engineering and digital engineering teams Preferred requirements:
• Proven communicator with a high level of integrity and leadership courage
• Requires little to no guidance as a proven self-starter who can recognize needs and act
• Demonstratable Digital Engineering (DE) experience building models, Government Reference Architectures (GRA) and/or workflow automations
• Referenceable technical and agile program management experience, from inception to deployment of two or more moderate scale (10+ direct reports), complex, software development projects/programs
• Demonstrated ability to advise clients on the use of different technologies
• Known for servant leader-mindset placing the team and client's needs first
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance, direction and/or coach internal teams across multiple tasks and several functional areas
• Experienced facilitator and coach, adept at managing client relationships and organizing agile team activities for complex, mission-critical software projects
• Demonstrated ability solving complex problems for the Department of Defense, ideally the US Airforce
• USAF Acquisition/Contracting, Aircraft and R&D experience
• Asserts to having capture management experience
• Possess and active Scrum certification
• Demonstrated Government Contracting experience (e.g., Work breakdown structures, performance work statements, task orders, Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs), FAR and DFAR literacy Education Required:
• Position requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and 8 years of directly related technical and Program management experience with Business Development as part of your responsibilities or an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience
• Master/Bachelor's level degree in Systems or Software Engineering, IT Management, Cybersecurity or similar discipline
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in leadership and Program Management in Department of Defense (DoD
• acquisition and contract management
• (Airforce preferred) Clearance Requirements:
• Active Top-Secret clearance
• SCI eligible Work Location: Lincoln Ma Wingbrace LLC is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. We value each individual and empower our people to fearlessly drive lasting change.
About Wingbrace Wingbrace is a software and technical services company focused on the delivery of solutions for our clients. We produce software, develop architectures, code and operate modeling and simulation systems, and build decision support systems rapidly and effectively. We consider successful outcomes as our metric, and our client engagements benefit from a depth of understanding of organizational, cultural and mission issues, yielding speed and integration of critical capabilities. Service-disabled veteran owned, our culture is collaboration and performance with a commitment to diversity and the values it conveys. We actively support a variety of open and secure environments. We have prime and subcontractor relationships with the government and large corporate partners. We are developers. Our ethos arises from the discipline of the deliverable and our efficiency from an unburdened approach to using the best tools and products for our client. Our compass is innovation, leading us to exceptional results delivered to our clients. Wingbrace LLC is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or another protected characteristic . click apply for full job details