Program Integration Lead
About The Position
SAIC is seeking an experienced Program Integration Lead to support its SSBT PAE Program supporting the USSF in Chantilly, Virginia. The Space-Based Sensing and Targeting (SBST) Portfolio Acquisition Executive serves as the United States Space Force’s lead organization for developing and delivering advanced space-based sensing, targeting, and environmental monitoring capabilities. SBST provides persistent global battlespace awareness across land, sea, air, and space domains, enabling joint all-domain operations and accelerating the detection, tracking, and engagement of strategic threats in support of national defense objectives. The Program Integration Lead will help shape the Advanced Moving Target Indicator (AMTI) office and mature the broader SBST organization. The role drives the development and refinement of organizational processes and support models across administrative and technical/engineering functions, ensuring AMTI is integrated into the SBST PAE construct and able to execute its mission. The Lead also serves as an integrator and liaison among the AMTI office, the SBST PAE front office, and functional areas including engineering, security, financial management, cost estimating, contracting, human resources, and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Systems Management, Public Administration, or a related field and 18 or more years of experience; or a master’s degree and 16 or more years of experience; or a PhD or JD and 15 or more years of experience.
- Active Top Secret clearance with current eligibility to obtain or upgrade to SCI.
- 18 or more years of experience in defense acquisition, portfolio/program management, organizational design, or enterprise integration.
- Strong background in DoD/DoW/USSF program management and acquisition, including familiarity with portfolio management and integration across multiple programs or mission areas.
- Familiarity with USSF, space systems acquisition, or space-based sensing and targeting programs.
- Direct awareness of AMTI missions or related ISR/battlespace awareness capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience leading or supporting organizational stand-up, transformation, or re-architecture efforts within the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community.
- Experience designing and implementing organizational processes and support models, including concepts of operations, workflows, and governance structures.
- Experience conducting gap analyses of organizational capabilities, staffing, and processes, and developing actionable recommendations and implementation plans.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and lead integration across engineering, security, finance, contracting, HR, and operations stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing and delivering briefings to senior government leaders.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to manage complex efforts and drive results in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, stand-up, and integration of the AMTI office within the SBST PAE, aligning it with the SECWAR-directed portfolio acquisition construct and SBST mission objectives.
- Develop and refine organizational process models and support frameworks for AMTI and the broader SBST organization across administrative and technical/engineering functions.
- Generate organizational and functional concepts demonstrating the competencies and capacity AMTI and SBST need to execute portfolio-level acquisition, engineering, and operations.
- Conduct gap analyses of organizational capabilities, staffing, and processes; identify expertise shortfalls and develop support models and frameworks to address them.
- Develop scalable support models for AMTI and other SBST mission areas, including staffing plans, process flows, governance constructs, and integration points with the PAE front office and enterprise functions.
- Create onboarding and scaling frameworks to integrate government, FFRDC, and contractor personnel into AMTI and related SBST offices.
- Coordinate portfolio-level integration of schedules, dependencies, and processes between AMTI and other SBST mission areas, including GMTI, SDN, EM, and Futures.
- Support the SBST PAE front office in establishing and executing battle rhythms, decision forums, and governance boards.
- Develop repeatable process documentation, playbooks, and artifacts such as concepts of operations, RACI charts, workflow diagrams, and checklists.
- Coordinate with acquisition, engineering, security, financial management, cost estimating, contracting, HR, and operations stakeholders to ensure process models are operationally realistic, policy-compliant, and tailored to the SBST mission.
- Provide data-driven recommendations to senior SBST leadership on AMTI organizational design, capability stand-up sequencing, and risk and issue mitigation.
- Prepare and deliver senior-level briefings and decision materials communicating organizational concepts, options, tradeoffs, and implementation plans.
- Monitor implementation of approved process models and support frameworks, collect feedback and performance metrics, and drive continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
