Senior Development Program Manager

<p><strong>Job Overview </strong></p> <p>The Senior Program Manager leads the planning, execution, and delivery of IRAD, CRAD, and advanced development programs across the company's product portfolio. This role serves as the single point of accountability for Cost, Schedule, and Performance (CSP), driving cross-functional execution through the Design-Build-Test-Evaluate (DBTE) lifecycle while balancing technical risk, resource constraints, customer requirements, and strategic business objectives. The Senior Program Manager integrates efforts across engineering, business development, operations, supply chain, finance, manufacturing, and flight test to deliver executable development roadmaps, mature technologies, achieve program milestones, and transition capabilities into production and customer-funded programs.</p> <p><strong>Essential Functions </strong></p> <ul> <li>Own full Cost, Schedule, and Performance (CSP) responsibility for assigned IRAD and CRAD programs, ensuring successful execution against technical objectives, funding profiles, and strategic business goals.</li> <li>Lead cross-functional execution of RDT&E programs through the DBTE lifecycle, integrating engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and operational activities into a cohesive program plan.</li> <li>Develop and maintain program execution strategies, Integrated Master Plans (IMP), Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), risk management plans, resource forecasts, and funding strategies that support successful capability delivery.</li> <li>Establish program baselines and monitor performance against cost, schedule, technical, and operational objectives, implementing corrective actions when deviations occur.</li> <li>Lead program reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews, design reviews, and executive status briefings, communicating program health, risks, opportunities, and recovery strategies.</li> <li>Partner with engineering leadership to define development priorities, manage technical trade studies, and balance performance, schedule, cost, manufacturability, and operational considerations throughout development.</li> <li>Drive risk and opportunity management activities, identifying potential impacts to cost, schedule, technical performance, manufacturing readiness, and customer commitments while developing executable mitigation plans.</li> <li>Coordinate development, integration, test, and evaluation activities to ensure program objectives, readiness criteria, and technical exit criteria are achieved.</li> <li>Partner with finance to develop and manage program budgets, burn plans, Estimates at Completion (EAC), staffing forecasts, and investment strategies supporting IRAD and CRAD execution.</li> <li>Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, and operations teams to e