Technical Program Manager (Systems Software)

Analogic • Salem, NH

149d

About The Position

The Technical Program Manager is a hands-on technical leader who translates complex customer and product needs into executable engineering plans and leads teams through delivery. Designed for an accomplished senior or principal software engineer, systems engineer, or technical lead, the role offers broader program ownership while maintaining close involvement in architecture, code, integration, and technical decisions. The role combines software development experience in Python and C with practical leadership, systems thinking, and foundational project management to deliver solutions for Analogic’s medical and aviation security products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive software or systems engineering experience, including senior-, lead-, staff-, or principal-level work on complex products.
• Strong professional software development experience in Python and C, including the ability to understand unfamiliar codebases, assess design quality, review code, troubleshoot integration issues, and engage credibly with software architects and developers.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary technical teams through architecture, implementation, integration, test, release, or deployment.
• Working knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices, including version control, code review, automated testing, defect management, build and release processes, and Agile or iterative development.
• Practical project-management fundamentals, including breaking work into deliverables, estimating effort, sequencing dependencies, maintaining schedules, tracking risks and issues, managing change, and communicating status.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make sound technical judgments, and create clarity and accountability across multiple concurrent priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics and trade-offs to engineering, business, executive, and customer audiences.
• Basic proficiency with scheduling and work-management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Must be a U.S. Person as required by applicable law, regulation, or government contract.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with embedded, real-time, distributed, safety-critical, or mission-critical systems integrating software, hardware, networking, and external interfaces.
• Experience with systems engineering practices such as requirements decomposition, interface definition, architecture modeling, verification and validation, and technical baseline management.
• Experience delivering regulated products in aviation security, medical devices, aerospace, defense, or another high-assurance environment.
• Experience with Linux, C/C++, cybersecurity, networking, DevOps/CI/CD, automated testing, and software/hardware integration.
• Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical reviews, or coordinating work across organizational boundaries.
• Familiarity with Agile planning, earned value concepts, risk management, or schedule development.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or SAFe certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution of complex, cross-functional software and systems programs from concept and architecture through integration, verification, release, deployment, and sustainment.
• Partner with software, systems, electrical, mechanical, test, cybersecurity, product, manufacturing, and field teams to translate customer and regulatory needs into requirements, technical plans, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
• Review architectures and designs, participate in code and design reviews, guide implementation trade-offs, and apply Python and C expertise to diagnose issues, evaluate prototypes, or develop supporting tools when needed.
• Build integrated roadmaps and schedules, defining milestones, dependencies, critical paths, staffing needs, and measurable completion criteria using tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
• Lead engineers through influence and technical credibility by setting priorities, clarifying ownership, facilitating decisions, removing blockers, and mentoring team members.
• Drive software execution, including estimation, backlog and release planning, configuration management, code reviews, automated testing, defect resolution, CI/CD, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Manage program scope, requirements baselines, technical dependencies, risks, issues, opportunities, and change control; assess and communicate impacts to performance, cost, schedule, quality, and cybersecurity.
• Draft, manage, and drive Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) through cross-functional review and approval, ensuring technical scope, affected configurations, implementation plans, cost and schedule impacts, risks, and documentation are complete and aligned.
• Use data and engineering evidence to monitor program health, anticipate bottlenecks, make trade-offs, and escalate decisions with clear options and recommendations.
• Communicate technical strategy, architecture, status, risks, and recovery plans to engineers, senior leaders, customers, suppliers, and domestic and international stakeholders.
• Support proposals and new business by developing technical approaches, work breakdowns, estimates, preliminary schedules, assumptions, and risk assessments.
• Improve engineering delivery practices and create repeatable mechanisms that increase predictability, quality, and team effectiveness.

Benefits

• 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off.
• Flexible Vacation; employees can take time off as reasonably needed.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans.
• HRA contribution for PPO plan participants or HSA contribution for high-deductible plan participants.
• 401K with company match and immediate vesting.
• Continuous Education Assistance.
• Supportive culture that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior