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Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager supporting the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development.

As a Project Manager, you will support a team to develop and deliver capabilities while managing risks, escalating impediments, and helping to drive continuous process improvement. You will interact directly with customers (e.g., end-users, system owners, stakeholders) and will support a variety of management activities and practices with a team of highly motivated, technical individuals who work in a collegial, collaborative work environment. This team includes software developers, systems engineers, product owners, data analysts, outreach specialists, and program support (e.g., quality assurance, project control and finance). Work is primarily conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD. We offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

Your key role is to provide management oversight of the Task Order, ensuring deliverables are provided on schedule and within budget. You will utilize your project management background to accomplish the following:

+ Take the lead on program initiatives and task order lead activities such as:

+ Create a plan with the program staff for milestones and deliverables

+ Constantly check in with the team on task progress

+ Facilitate meetings to help move the team forward on tasking and help remove blockers

+ Create status reports for customer

+ Schedule TEMs with customer and partners, if needed and moderate the sessions

+ Attend customer meetings to provide status and communicate risks/roadblocks

+ Provide support to Program Management Office (PMO) to create customer and internal Leidos presentations including program roadmap, program review, staffing plan, etc.

+ Update and maintain program risk register

+ Identify staffing and skills needs on the program and work with line managers to address them

+ Help facilitate and participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning

+ Provide support to task order lead and IDIQ PMO with any PM related activities

+ Help coordinate and facilitate customer meetings

+ Manage project costs and provide support to project financial planning

To be successful in this role you need these skills (required):

+ BS in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience

+ At least 8 years of relevant professional experience

+ Minimum 3 years of experience leading technical teams

+ Experience with SAFe agile practices

+ TS/SCI and ability to pass a polygraph

+ Experience with people management

+ Experience with project schedule and cost management

+ Experience with customer interaction and gathering requirements and customer priorities

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail

+ Self-motivated, creative, organized, and able to accomplish tasks under limited supervision

+ Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment

+ High proficiency in Microsoft Office products and SharePoint

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

+ Experience with Intelligence Community mission and projects is strongly recommended

+ PMP certification

+ Experience with MS Project

+ Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) process

+ Experience with tools like Gitlab, JIRA, and Confluence

+ Scaled Agile Framework certification (SAFe Agilist or other)

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At Leidos, we don’t want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Original Posting:

September 10, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $89,700.00 - $162,150.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00166473

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.