Technical Program Manager, Digital Test & Evaluation

Job Description:

• Lead and manage Digital T&E prototype efforts from problem definition and market research through technical diligence, pilot execution, user evaluation, and transition.
• Translate military T&E workflows, capability claims, operational needs, and program decisions into software requirements, user stories, integration requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable pilot outcomes.
• Design and evaluate end-to-end T&E workflows spanning requirements, mission and systems engineering, modeling and simulation, test planning, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting, and decision support.
• Define Measures of Performance, Measures of Effectiveness, test objectives, data requirements, evidence thresholds, and appropriate modeling, simulation, laboratory, cyber, and physical-range testing.
• Serve as a technical integrator across Digital T&E tool categories, including MBSE, DevSecOps/CI/CD, modeling and simulation, test planning, risk management, test execution, monitoring, analysis, visualization, reporting, and data governance.
• Develop and validate digital-thread concepts connecting authoritative data and artifacts across engineering, test, and assessment tools.
• Coordinate commercial software integration into defense RDT&E infrastructure, including cloud, edge environments, networks, classified/unclassified enclaves, cybersecurity, identity and access management, data protection, interoperability, and accreditation.
• Identify and resolve technical barriers involving APIs, data schemas, metadata, containerization, software deployment, network connectivity, data federation, tool interoperability, and legacy systems.
• Work with Government test organizations, program offices, users, data owners, security teams, software vendors, and infrastructure providers to establish pilot architectures and execution plans.
• Conduct technical due diligence of commercial software and emerging T&E technologies.
• Create and lead Government-commercial teams to prototype, integrate, test, and evaluate Digital T&E solutions.
• Develop executive-level briefs, test concepts, pilot plans, integration roadmaps, decision memos, and technical documentation.
• Engage stakeholders to curate problems and maintain awareness of developments in digital engineering, test automation, AI-enabled T&E, data engineering, simulation, digital twins, software assurance, and test-management technologies.
• Support demonstrations and limited-user tests; define success criteria and collect quantitative and qualitative evidence.
• Define reusable T&E templates, reference workflows, data standards, and interoperability patterns.
• Identify dependencies and approval gates, including cybersecurity/RMF, cloud and network hosting, data classification, software deployment, spectrum, and range constraints.
• Bridge test practitioners and software teams while preserving rigor, traceability, configuration control, and evidentiary standards.
• Operate under Test & Evaluation / Strategic Integration leadership with independent judgment and close coordination with Government and commercial stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Five or more years of directly relevant experience in defense Test & Evaluation, systems engineering, digital engineering, software-intensive acquisition, or a closely related national-security technical field.
• Working knowledge of the defense T&E lifecycle, including test strategy, developmental and operational testing, test planning and execution, MOPs/MOEs, risk management, data collection, analysis, reporting, and the role of modeling and simulation versus physical test.
• Demonstrated familiarity with one or more Digital T&E / digital engineering disciplines such as MBSE, mission engineering, modeling and simulation, digital twins, test management, DevSecOps/CI/CD, automated test, data orchestration, data analytics/visualization, AI/ML, or digital-thread architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and manage software integration in defense environments, including APIs and data exchange, cloud and edge deployment, containerized applications, government networks, cybersecurity/RMF and ATO processes, identity/access controls, CUI and classified-data handling, and interoperability with legacy systems.
• Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to translate operational and test-user problems into technically actionable software requirements and pilot architectures.
• Experience working across Government program offices, test organizations, engineering organizations, operational users, and commercial technology companies.
• Strong engineering literacy in a relevant discipline such as Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, cross-functional project teams and manage multiple technical workstreams with limited supervision.
• Outstanding executive writing, briefing, stakeholder-management, and technical communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Secret security clearance required; ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility preferred.
• Travel required (up to 30%).

Benefits:

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan - 401k with matching contributions
• Employer Paid Life Insurance (Basic)
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account)
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Sick Leave
• AFLAC (Supplementary Insurance)
• Tuition Reimbursement Program