{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"29edc96805a5bdef6ea2bdf4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29edc96805a5bdef6ea2bdf4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29edc96805a5bdef6ea2bdf4","title":"Senior Manager, Technology Program Management","description":"About Peraton\n\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\n\nProgram Overview\nThe program's Information Technology Division develop and maintain a large number of web applications that support all divisions within the office.\nAbout The Role\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing management of multiple IT programs supporting state government customers in the New England region.\n\nThis is a senior, customer-facing leadership role responsible for successful program delivery, customer relationships, financial performance, team leadership, and identification of account growth opportunities.\n\nThe successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to customers and work closely with technical teams, account leadership, and business development/capture organizations to deliver high-quality solutions, manage contractual commitments, maintain strong financial performance, and identify opportunities for continued growth.\n\nThis is not a traditional business development role. The primary responsibility is program and account delivery. However, the successful candidate must have the business acumen and customer relationships to recognize on-contract growth opportunities, expansion opportunities, and new business opportunities within existing accounts and the broader New England region.\n\nThe ideal candidate is someone who can run the business, not simply manage the projects, someone who takes ownership of delivery, customer relationships, financial performance, team leadership, and the future growth of the account.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nProgram & Delivery Management\n\nLead multiple software development, application maintenance, and IT support programs.\nEnsure programs are delivered on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contractual commitments.\nEstablish strong program governance, including schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and performance reporting.\nProvide leadership and direction to program managers, technical leads, developers, business analysts, testers, and other delivery resources.\nProactively identify delivery risks and develop effective mitigation plans.\nEnsure appropriate processes are in place for requirements management, testing, release management, production support, and overall SDLC execution.\nMaintain strong delivery discipline while adapting processes and methodologies to the customer's environment.\nEnsure customer commitments are clearly understood by delivery teams and consistently met.\n\nCustomer Relationship Management\n\nEstablish and maintain strong relationships with customer executives, IT leadership, program managers, and business stakeholders.\nServe as a trusted advisor and senior point of contact for assigned programs.\nUnderstand customer priorities, challenges, business needs, and future technology requirements.\nCommunicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nProactively address customer concerns and resolve issues before they become escalations.\nLead customer meetings, program reviews, status discussions, and executive briefings as required.\nBuild relationships that support long-term customer satisfaction and account growth.\nRepresent Peraton professionally and strengthen the company's position within customer organizations.\n\nAccount & Financial Management\n\nMaintain accountability for program and account financial performance.\nMonitor revenue, cost, staffing, utilization, forecast, backlog, and EBIT performance.\nIdentify and implement actions to improve program and account profitability.\nEnsure staffing levels and resource assignments are aligned with contractual commitments and financial objectives.\nWork with account leadership and finance organizations to maintain accurate financial forecasts.\nIdentify financial risks and take corrective action when required.\nUnderstand the relationship between scope, staffing, delivery performance, customer satisfaction, revenue, and EBIT.\nMaintain appropriate financial discipline across assigned programs and accounts.\n\nContract & SOW Management\n\nManage large IT contracts involving application maintenance and support, software development, and staff augmentation.\nDevelop and manage Statements of Work (SOWs), including scope, assumptions, staffing, schedules, deliverables, and pricing.\nWork with technical teams to develop realistic estimates and delivery approaches.\nIdentify scope changes and potential contract modifications.\nSupport customer discussions and negotiations regarding scope, schedule, staffing, and funding.\nEnsure contractual requirements and assumptions are clearly understood by delivery teams.\nMonitor contract performance and proactively identify potential scope, funding, or delivery issues.\n\nAccount Growth & Opportunity Identification\n\nProactively identify on-contract growth opportunities, contract expansion opportunities, and new business opportunities within assigned customer accounts and the broader New England region.\nDevelop strong relationships with customer stakeholders to understand emerging business and technology needs.\nIdentify opportunities to expand existing programs, add capabilities, increase scope, or pursue follow-on work.\nMaintain awareness of customer budgets, priorities, upcoming initiatives, and procurement activities.\nBring potential opportunities to account leadership and work collaboratively to qualify and develop them.\nPartner with account leadership, capture, business development, and technical teams to develop opportunities.\nSupport development of SOWs, estimates, proposals, presentations, and customer briefings.\nHelp convert identified opportunities into funded work while maintaining primary accountability for program delivery.\nQualifications\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n12+ years of IT experience, with significant experience managing software development, application maintenance, and/or IT support programs.\nDemonstrated track record of successfully delivering complex IT programs.\nStrong experience managing software development projects and application maintenance/support operations.\nStrong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).\nExperience managing technical teams and working with software architects, developers, business analysts, testers, and other technical resources.\nStrong customer relationship management skills, including experience working directly with senior customer stakeholders.\nExperience developing Statements of Work, estimates, staffing plans, schedules, and delivery assumptions.\nExperience managing large IT contracts involving maintenance and support, software development, and/or staff augmentation.\nStrong understanding of program and account financial management, including revenue, cost, staffing, forecasting, and EBIT/margin.\nExperience with Agile methodologies and the ability to adapt delivery practices to different customer environments.\nDemonstrated ability to identify account growth opportunities and contribute to development of new work.\nExcellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a complex customer environment.\nMust a US Citizen or Green card holder.\nMust reside within reasonable commuting distance of the Boston, Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets and be available for occasional onsite customer meetings and program activities.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience working with state and local government customers.\nPrevious experience supporting Massachusetts or Rhode Island state agencies.\nExperience with application modernization and legacy technology environments.\nExperience managing large, multi-year government IT contracts.\nExperience managing a combination of fixed-price, time-and-materials, and labor-hour contracts.\nExperience with government procurement and contracting processes.\nExperience managing distributed technical teams.\nPMP certification strongly preferred.\nExperience identifying and developing expansion opportunities within existing government accounts.\nExperience working with application maintenance and support organizations.\nExperience managing staff augmentation programs.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.\n\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","company":"Peraton","rawCompany":"peraton","city":"Ware","state":"MA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-22T11:14:49.949Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Manager, Technology Program Management","description":"About Peraton\n\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\n\nProgram Overview\nThe program's Information Technology Division develop and maintain a large number of web applications that support all divisions within the office.\nAbout The Role\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing management of multiple IT programs supporting state government customers in the New England region.\n\nThis is a senior, customer-facing leadership role responsible for successful program delivery, customer relationships, financial performance, team leadership, and identification of account growth opportunities.\n\nThe successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to customers and work closely with technical teams, account leadership, and business development/capture organizations to deliver high-quality solutions, manage contractual commitments, maintain strong financial performance, and identify opportunities for continued growth.\n\nThis is not a traditional business development role. The primary responsibility is program and account delivery. However, the successful candidate must have the business acumen and customer relationships to recognize on-contract growth opportunities, expansion opportunities, and new business opportunities within existing accounts and the broader New England region.\n\nThe ideal candidate is someone who can run the business, not simply manage the projects, someone who takes ownership of delivery, customer relationships, financial performance, team leadership, and the future growth of the account.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nProgram & Delivery Management\n\nLead multiple software development, application maintenance, and IT support programs.\nEnsure programs are delivered on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contractual commitments.\nEstablish strong program governance, including schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and performance reporting.\nProvide leadership and direction to program managers, technical leads, developers, business analysts, testers, and other delivery resources.\nProactively identify delivery risks and develop effective mitigation plans.\nEnsure appropriate processes are in place for requirements management, testing, release management, production support, and overall SDLC execution.\nMaintain strong delivery discipline while adapting processes and methodologies to the customer's environment.\nEnsure customer commitments are clearly understood by delivery teams and consistently met.\n\nCustomer Relationship Management\n\nEstablish and maintain strong relationships with customer executives, IT leadership, program managers, and business stakeholders.\nServe as a trusted advisor and senior point of contact for assigned programs.\nUnderstand customer priorities, challenges, business needs, and future technology requirements.\nCommunicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nProactively address customer concerns and resolve issues before they become escalations.\nLead customer meetings, program reviews, status discussions, and executive briefings as required.\nBuild relationships that support long-term customer satisfaction and account growth.\nRepresent Peraton professionally and strengthen the company's position within customer organizations.\n\nAccount & Financial Management\n\nMaintain accountability for program and account financial performance.\nMonitor revenue, cost, staffing, utilization, forecast, backlog, and EBIT performance.\nIdentify and implement actions to improve program and account profitability.\nEnsure staffing levels and resource assignments are aligned with contractual commitments and financial objectives.\nWork with account leadership and finance organizations to maintain accurate financial forecasts.\nIdentify financial risks and take corrective action when required.\nUnderstand the relationship between scope, staffing, delivery performance, customer satisfaction, revenue, and EBIT.\nMaintain appropriate financial discipline across assigned programs and accounts.\n\nContract & SOW Management\n\nManage large IT contracts involving application maintenance and support, software development, and staff augmentation.\nDevelop and manage Statements of Work (SOWs), including scope, assumptions, staffing, schedules, deliverables, and pricing.\nWork with technical teams to develop realistic estimates and delivery approaches.\nIdentify scope changes and potential contract modifications.\nSupport customer discussions and negotiations regarding scope, schedule, staffing, and funding.\nEnsure contractual requirements and assumptions are clearly understood by delivery teams.\nMonitor contract performance and proactively identify potential scope, funding, or delivery issues.\n\nAccount Growth & Opportunity Identification\n\nProactively identify on-contract growth opportunities, contract expansion opportunities, and new business opportunities within assigned customer accounts and the broader New England region.\nDevelop strong relationships with customer stakeholders to understand emerging business and technology needs.\nIdentify opportunities to expand existing programs, add capabilities, increase scope, or pursue follow-on work.\nMaintain awareness of customer budgets, priorities, upcoming initiatives, and procurement activities.\nBring potential opportunities to account leadership and work collaboratively to qualify and develop them.\nPartner with account leadership, capture, business development, and technical teams to develop opportunities.\nSupport development of SOWs, estimates, proposals, presentations, and customer briefings.\nHelp convert identified opportunities into funded work while maintaining primary accountability for program delivery.\nQualifications\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n12+ years of IT experience, with significant experience managing software development, application maintenance, and/or IT support programs.\nDemonstrated track record of successfully delivering complex IT programs.\nStrong experience managing software development projects and application maintenance/support operations.\nStrong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).\nExperience managing technical teams and working with software architects, developers, business analysts, testers, and other technical resources.\nStrong customer relationship management skills, including experience working directly with senior customer stakeholders.\nExperience developing Statements of Work, estimates, staffing plans, schedules, and delivery assumptions.\nExperience managing large IT contracts involving maintenance and support, software development, and/or staff augmentation.\nStrong understanding of program and account financial management, including revenue, cost, staffing, forecasting, and EBIT/margin.\nExperience with Agile methodologies and the ability to adapt delivery practices to different customer environments.\nDemonstrated ability to identify account growth opportunities and contribute to development of new work.\nExcellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a complex customer environment.\nMust a US Citizen or Green card holder.\nMust reside within reasonable commuting distance of the Boston, Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets and be available for occasional onsite customer meetings and program activities.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience working with state and local government customers.\nPrevious experience supporting Massachusetts or Rhode Island state agencies.\nExperience with application modernization and legacy technology environments.\nExperience managing large, multi-year government IT contracts.\nExperience managing a combination of fixed-price, time-and-materials, and labor-hour contracts.\nExperience with government procurement and contracting processes.\nExperience managing distributed technical teams.\nPMP certification strongly preferred.\nExperience identifying and developing expansion opportunities within existing government accounts.\nExperience working with application maintenance and support organizations.\nExperience managing staff augmentation programs.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.\n\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","datePosted":"2026-10-22T11:14:49.949Z","dateModified":"2026-10-22T11:14:49.949Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Peraton","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Ware","addressRegion":"MA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"29edc96805a5bdef6ea2bdf4"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/29edc96805a5bdef6ea2bdf4"}}