Senior Technical Program Manager

Date Posted:

2025-03-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA111: 1300 N 17th Street, Arlington 1300 North 17th Street Suite 400, Arlington, VA, 22209 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

For over 70 years, Raytheon BBN Technologies has solved real-world problems through research, exploration, development, and prototyping. We collaborate with top technical talent to pioneer transformative solutions. The Network & Cyber Technologies (NCT) team leverages math, engineering, and physics to tackle customer challenges in communications, RF, and cyber domains. We specialize in information exchange, protection, and exploitation.

This is a position for candidates with research and development (R&D) program management experience. In this role, you will provide key program management support enabling NCT technical staff to deliver innovative solutions to customers in the Cyber, Electronic Warfare, Radio Frequency, and Networking domains. You will help coordinate resources, track progress, facilitate collaboration, and ensure on-time delivery within budget. Your leadership and organizational skills will empower our engineers and scientists to push boundaries and meet critical customer needs.

What you will do:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinate extensively across technical and support staff to enable on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Translate customer needs and advise technical experts on optimal solutions.
• Monitor spending, staffing, schedules, contracts, purchases, and deliverables.
• Manage schedules, resources, and budgets to ensure execution within cost targets.
• Identify, track, and escalate program risks and issues for mitigation.
• Facilitate collaboration through clear communication and information sharing.
• Employ PM best practices and tools to maintain alignment across complex projects.
• Deliver regular project updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead review meetings, inform decision making, and coordinate across project interdependencies.
• Drive achievement of milestones through resource planning and progress tracking.
• Manage a team of technical staff members to include work or project assignments, mentoring, and overall performance.

What you will gain:

• Gain exposure to cutting-edge technical work and innovative research.
• Collaborate with a motivated, engaged team of experts pushing boundaries.
• Develop hands-on experience managing complex defense projects.
• Build program management skills through resource coordination, scheduling, budget oversight.
• Gain visibility into the end-to-end program lifecycle from concept to delivery.
• Interact closely with customers to understand emerging capability needs.
• Contribute to developing solutions that give warfighters a decisive technology edge.
• Strengthen communication, organization, and leadership abilities.
• Advance your career as a program management professional working with pioneering technologies.

Qualifications You Must Have

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related major and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years’ experience.
• Experience in writing competitive proposals for Government funding through BAA opportunities, and executing on Government-funded contracts
• Experience working for a Government R&D Contractor
• Experience planning, staffing, and tracking multi-person projects
• Experience managing subcontractors and consultants
• Expertise in creating technical documents and presentations using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in research and development of Cyber, EW, RF or Networking capabilities.
• Prior experience managing subcontractors.
• Collaborative team player passionate about technology.
• Skilled at project scheduling, reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Analytical thinker able to synthesize data across multiple programs and conflicting priorities.
• People management experience, to include performance, work assignments, career guidance / mentoring.
• Position may require some amount of overnight travel
• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government security clearance is required prior to start date.

Qualifications We Prefer - Familiar with all, Expert in some

• Ability to obtain a TS security clearance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational ski