Program Integration & Execution Lead

Leidos•Adelphi, MD

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Program Integration & Execution Lead to support the C5ISR Center Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP), a mission-critical defensive cyber operations organization protecting complex enterprise environments 24x7x365. The CSSP provides continuous monitoring, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and other cybersecurity capabilities. The role creates and manages an integrated execution framework across technical teams, operations, engineering, business functions, leadership, and customer stakeholders. It connects program priorities, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, decisions, commitments, and performance into an authoritative Program Operating Picture. The lead assesses whether plans are executable, commitments realistic, dependencies understood, resources aligned, and corrective actions effective. The position serves as an execution partner to the Program Manager, Operations Manager, Chief Engineer, Quality Engineer, technical leads, functional leaders, and customer stakeholders. The role owns the program-level Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), establishes planning and prioritization processes, integrates workstreams and customer commitments, identifies execution risks and conflicts, and drives issues and actions to closure. It also establishes readiness, quality, and process-improvement practices; develops performance measures and dashboards; facilitates execution reviews; and provides data-driven recommendations to leadership. The position coordinates engineering, operational, and functional work across the program and reinforces proactive ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. The position requires an active Top Secret security clearance. Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and 15+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and 13+ years of relevant experience; additional relevant experience may substitute for degree requirements under company policy. A professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, SAFe, or a related certification is also listed.

Requirements

Significant experience in program management, program integration, portfolio management, operations management, program controls, or complex technical delivery.
Demonstrated experience leading teams.
Demonstrated experience managing integrated schedules, cross-functional dependencies, risks, issues, actions, commitments, and program-level execution.
Strong experience developing and maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) or comparable enterprise planning construct.
Ability to integrate technical, operational, business, and customer activities into a single executable program plan.
Experience developing dashboards, executive reporting, and management operating views for complex programs.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Project, Primavera, Excel, Power BI, Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or similar scheduling, workflow, reporting, and analytical platforms.
Experience developing SOPs, governance processes, workflows, readiness criteria, and accountability mechanisms.
Experience with root-cause analysis, corrective-action management, process improvement, and execution assurance.
Ability to use objective data to challenge unrealistic schedules, unsupported commitments, incomplete plans, and unclear ownership.
Strong analytical skills using schedule, workload, operational, and performance data to support leadership decisions.
Experience coordinating work across multiple technical and functional organizations.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with technical teams, senior leadership, and government/customer stakeholders.
Excellent organization, follow-through, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to succeed with limited direction in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment with competing priorities.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Program Management, Operations, and 15+ years of prior relevant experience, or a master's degree with 13+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional relevant experience may substitute for degree requirements consistent with company policy.
Active Top Secret security clearance.
Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, SAFe, or a related certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience with large Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, cybersecurity, IT, or mission operations programs.
Advanced Power BI dashboard and executive reporting development.
Experience with complex Integrated Master Schedules, including critical-path and schedule-risk analysis.
Experience with Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, Primavera, or similar enterprise work-management platforms.
Experience establishing or operating an enterprise PMO or Program Integration Office.
Experience with operational assurance, quality management, readiness reviews, audits, or compliance-driven environments.
Experience with capacity planning, workforce/workload analysis, resource forecasting, and portfolio prioritization.
Experience in Agile, DevSecOps, cybersecurity operations, cloud, infrastructure, or enterprise IT environments.
Experience developing RACI models, decision-right frameworks, escalation models, and cross-team operating processes.
Ability to translate large amounts of program data into simple executive-level insights and actionable decisions.

Responsibilities

Establish, maintain, and continuously improve an authoritative Program Operating Picture for enterprise program execution.
Own and maintain the program-level Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring it reflects priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, milestones, and credible delivery dates.
Integrate workstreams, customer commitments, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and deliverables across functional teams.
Maintain an enterprise-level view of deliverables, owners, due dates, and factors that could affect delivery.
Establish program-level planning, prioritization, intake, and deconfliction processes.
Evaluate new commitments against priorities, resource capacity, dependencies, readiness, and competing work before establishing delivery dates.
Identify schedule conflicts, resource contention, dependency risks, decision delays, and execution gaps before they become mission-impacting problems.
Drive issues and actions to closure with defined ownership, deadlines, escalation criteria, and objective evidence.
Maintain traceability between customer commitments, program priorities, execution plans, responsible owners, and closure.
Establish practical processes for planning, handoffs, escalation, readiness, quality assurance, action management, and closure.
Conduct execution reviews to assess whether processes are working and teams are delivering against expectations.
Develop readiness and stage-gate criteria for major capabilities, projects, transitions, releases, and complex operational changes.
Verify that capabilities are operationally ready, not merely technically complete.
Partner with Quality Engineering to identify recurring process failures, missed handoffs, aging issues, and accountability gaps.
Lead or support root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts that address underlying problems.
Develop and track KPIs covering schedule and commitment performance, aging actions, dependency resolution, backlog, workload and capacity, risks and decisions, operational readiness, and closure effectiveness.
Build and maintain dashboards and executive reporting using enterprise platforms such as Power BI, Excel, Jira, Salesforce, Microsoft Project, Primavera, ServiceNow, or comparable tools.
Facilitate program execution reviews focused on decisions, risks, blockers, priorities, and actions.
Provide leadership with data-driven recommendations on priorities, resource tradeoffs, schedule commitments, escalation, and corrective actions.
Partner with the Chief Engineer to integrate engineering milestones, technical dependencies, architecture decisions, technical risks, and readiness criteria into the program plan.
Work with Operations and functional leaders to evaluate workload, resource capacity, execution constraints, and key-person dependencies.
Coordinate execution across multiple technical and functional organizations.
Reinforce a culture of proactive ownership, disciplined execution, measurable accountability, and continuous improvement.