Mission Delivery Lead

The Opportunity:

The Mission Delivery Lead serves as the senior leader responsible for Product Ownership, Agile governance, and execution baseline integrity across mission-critical ground system capabilities. This position provides leadership and oversight for product owners, release train engineers, and Scrum Masters, ensuring alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, execution plans, delivery commitments, and program performance.

The Mission Delivery Lead serves as the primary bridge between mission engineering, software development, Verification, Validation, and Testing (VV&T), operations, and program leadership. This role is responsible for maintaining alignment between approved technical objectives and execution activities, governing the execution baseline within Jira, and providing visibility into delivery performance, execution risks, dependencies, and forecasted outcomes.

What You’ll Work On:

• Lead and mentor the product owner organization, ensuring effective translation of mission priorities, technical objectives, and systems engineering intent into prioritized backlogs, executable work, acceptance criteria, and delivery commitments.
• Lead and mentor release train engineers and Scrum Masters, establishing execution governance, planning discipline, dependency management practices, delivery reporting standards, and consistent execution processes across Agile teams.
• Establish and maintain governance of the execution baseline within Jira, ensuring alignment between approved requirements, features, priorities, implementation activities, verification activities, delivery commitments, and program reporting.
• Ensure alignment between mission priorities, technical objectives, backlog priorities, and program execution activities.
• Facilitate alignment across mission engineering, product owners, software development teams, VV&T, and operations to ensure priorities, dependencies, implementation activities, verification activities, and delivery commitments remain synchronized throughout execution.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance processes supporting planning, prioritization, execution, change management, and delivery reporting across the program.
• Lead program-level prioritization discussions and assess impacts associated with changing requirements, emerging mission needs, execution-driven growth, and resource constraints.
• Oversee dependency management, execution risk management, and delivery forecasting across multiple Agile release trains and teams.
• Develop and maintain program-level execution metrics, delivery health assessments, forecasting models, and performance reporting.
• Ensure execution data, planning artifacts, and delivery metrics accurately reflect current program status, commitments, and forecasted outcomes.
• Partner with program controls, finance, and Earned Value Management (EVM) organizations to ensure Agile execution data accurately supports program cost, schedule, and performance reporting, including forecast development, variance analysis, impact assessments, and communication of execution trends, delivery performance, emerging work, and execution-driven growth affecting program commitments, staffing, schedule, cost, and forecasted outcomes.
• Ensure work execution, planning activities, and Agile delivery processes are aligned with approved charge codes, control accounts, and reporting structures, providing clear guidance to teams and supporting accurate financial tracking and forecasting.
• Support customer engagements, program reviews, executive briefings, and delivery assessments through data-driven analysis and recommendations.
• Identify systemic execution challenges and implement process improvements to improve delivery predictability, transparency, accountability, and performance.
• Collaborate with program leadership to establish execution priorities, resource allocation strategies, and delivery objectives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for execution concerns impacting delivery commitments, mission objectives, program performance, cost, or schedule.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience supporting software development, systems engineering, integration, testing, operations, or mission-focused programs
• Experience leading product owners, release train engineers, Scrum Masters, or cross-functional technical delivery organizations
• Experience leading delivery efforts across systems engineering, software development, testing, and operational organizations
• Experience governing execution baselines, delivery metrics, backlog structures, reporting, and planning activities within tools such as Jira
• Experience developing execution metrics, forecasting models, delivery reporting, and program performance assessments
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and software development lifecycles within complex technical environments
• Ability to translate technical objectives and mission priorities into executable work, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes
• Ability to assess and communicate impacts associated with changing priorities, emerging work, execution performance, resource constraints, technical risks, and delivery commitments
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

Nice If You Have:

• Experience serving as a systems engineer, software developer, technical lead, product owner, technical program manager, or comparable technical leadership role
• Experience supporting large-scale government, defense, intelligence, or space-related programs
• Experience supporting development, operations, and sustainment environments
• Experience supporting program controls, EVM, forecasting, or integrated program performance management activities
• Experience operating within SAFe or other large-scale Agile delivery frameworks
• Possession of excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.