Senior Technical Program Manager

Title: Senior Technical Program Manager

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Position Summary:

KBR, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and experienced technically minded Program Manager to coordinate support for the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Division. You will be responsible for ensuring subject matter experts in the areas of Logistics, Configuration management, Test, Software Engineering, and Model-Based Systems Engineering meet customer intent. As part of your duties, you will ensure ABMS product lines are interoperable across the DAF BATTLE NETWORK as well as ensuring their interfaces to other service, DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) efforts in support of Joint All Domian Command and Control (JADC2) are engineered to ensure interoperability across joint and coalition forces.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage data-driven process to rationalize government-owned reference standards in an iterative manner that incorporates feedback from internal and external stakeholders (e.g., adopting platforms, international partners, etc.)

Leads steering group to identify opportunities and deficiencies for rationalization including, but not limited to: redundancies, gaps/seams, conflicts, efficiencies, irrelevancies, and unused standards

Process owner of a Change Request workflow to modify, combines, deprecate, create, or adopt reference standards

Perform technical leadership of an industry consortium as a CLIN lead

Conduct and develop products in Working Groups that address the design/development, production, and integration of ABMS systems.

Build an understand of the adversarial threats-based kill chains facing US assets.

Facilitate/develop/present resolution of issues related to system-of-systems integration.

Develop and maintain mission architecture interface requirements for ABMS programs.

Perform cross-mission area architecture development through the identification of potential synergies and efficiencies across multiple mission areas based off existing roadmaps and Program Directorate-developed architectures.

Evaluate and characterize the known trade-space and ensure requirements mapping of newly developed enterprise-level cross-mission area architectures.

Develop candidate architectures that resolve common functions into common/enterprise solutions and reduce the cost associated with acquiring and maintaining multiple systems to achieve the same function.

Collect, analyze, and report on data collected during system-of-systems integration events.

The ideal candidate will:

Be able to think creatively and offer grounded, out-of-the-box solutions when appropriate.

Advise leadership on investment strategies and novel technology opportunities.

Promote and develop partnerships with industry, academia, and multinational partners.

Collaborate with military subject matter experts and program managers

Work Environment:

On-site (Beavercreek, OH)

Travel Requirements: 10-20%

Working Hours: Standard – Core hours 0900 – 1500

Qualifications:

Required:

An active TS/SCI clearance is required to be considered for this position.

Bachelor of Science in a technical field (Prefer computer science or electrical engineering)

3+ years in technical execution

5+ years of project management

Strong program management background with the willingness/ability to learn about mission system software architectures.

Work with a team of Government and industry SMEs to ensure that programmatic and technical objectives are being met.

Ability to own responsibility for deliverables, cost, and schedule

Ability to manage workload of simultaneous tasking in a fast paced, high-demand environment.

Personality for consensus building among multiple stakeholders with competing equities

Experience with classified programs.

Independent problem solving.

Ability to work effectively with customers and program stakeholders and have robust written and verbal communication skills.

Desired:

5+ years of relevant technical experience in aerospace.

Mission Engineering experience is a plus.

Experience in Command Control Communication system design, development, production and acquisition.

Experience with technical mentorship.

Government acquisition program experience

Familiarity with modern software development tools, languages, and practices

Familiarity with existing DoD open architectures, such as OMS

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.