Senior IT Program Manager

Job Description
What's it like working for a company where you are treated as more than a number? Empowering. Joining our Information Technology team means you are the backbone behind managing all the technology aspects for multiple contracts and programs that help keep nations safe. With the diversity of our offerings and work, you'll get to take on new challenges while your career reaches new heights.
BAE Systems is seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior IT Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, enterprise-impacting IT programs and projects. This role is responsible for managing strategic initiatives from planning through execution and stabilization while ensuring alignment to business priorities, measurable value delivery, and organizational outcomes.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience leading large, cross-functional efforts in a matrixed environment and excels in navigating ambiguity, managing complex stakeholder landscapes, and driving execution across business and technology teams. This leader must be equally comfortable influencing senior leaders, synthesizing data into actionable insights, and presenting clear recommendations to executive audiences.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead complex enterprise IT programs and projects, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities, business objectives, and measurable value outcomes.
• Manage initiatives across the full delivery lifecycle, including planning, execution, stabilization, dependency management, risk mitigation, and benefit realization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across business leaders, technology teams, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, vendors, and other key stakeholders.
• Translate strategic intent into executable delivery plans, balancing scope, timelines, resources, risks, and changing business needs.
• Provide strong stakeholder leadership across a complex matrixed environment, building trust, aligning priorities, resolving conflicts, and maintaining momentum across competing interests.
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready communications and presentations, including program updates, key decisions, risk escalations, roadmap views, and value-oriented recommendations.
• Use data and structured analysis to support decision-making, communicate program health, identify patterns, and tell a clear story around progress, risk, and business impact.
• Identify and manage cross-program dependencies, organizational risks, and delivery constraints to improve predictability and enterprise coordination.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to ensure solutions are delivered successfully, adopted effectively, and positioned to achieve intended outcomes.
• Promote modern project and program management practices, including customer focus, responsiveness, adaptability, continuous improvement, and strong organizational awareness.
• Coach and influence team members and partners to strengthen execution discipline, collaboration, and delivery excellence across the program environment.
• Support financial and operational rigor through effective planning, estimation, resource coordination, and tracking of delivery performance.

Key Job Requirements
Problem Solving: Requires advanced conceptual thinking in complex and/or complex new situations. Nature of Impact: Impacts quality, timeliness of results, planning and revenues or budget. Area of Impact: Enterprise wide. Interpersonal Skills: Skilled communicator who influences and shapes the image of a complex Program, Business Area, Sector or Enterprise wide. Negotiation Skills: Negotiates mainly internally, at higher levels, and occasionally with external relationships. Project Management: Project/Program Manager responsible for oversight of diverse project team or small program ($7.5 to $25M in revenue). The project typically has well-defined goals and follows a well-established process. Typically completed within 12 months.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
10+ years of relevant work experience.
Bachelor's Degree.
Project Management Professional (PMP). Proven track record of leading complex enterprise projects and programs in a matrixed environment.
Strong stakeholder management capability, including work with senior leaders, business partners, and technical teams.
Demonstrated executive presentation and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations.
Strong analytical and decision-support skills, including the ability to use data to communicate status, risks, trends, and business implications.
Experience managing cross-functional dependencies, enterprise risks, and competing priorities across large initiatives.
Strong business acumen and understanding of how technology delivery supports operational and strategic outcomes.
Ability to lead through ambiguity, adapt quickly, and maintain momentum in evolving environments.
Excellent collaboration, influence, and conflict-navigation skills.
Commitment to customer focus, continuous improvement, and high-quality delivery.
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
12+ years relevant management experience preferred.
Master's Degree preferred.
Organizational change management, hybrid project management methodologies, SDLC, Agile and ITIL certification, ServiceNow SPM.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $122400 - $208080
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems, Inc.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.