Deputy Technical Program Manager
Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maritime Digital Infrastructure
Washington, DC$113k - $149kfull-timePosted 6d ago
About the role
Deputy Technical Program Manager responsible for execution integrity across Anduril's MDI portfolio, coordinating across multiple domains, geographies, and accreditation regimes to prevent program stalls and ensure cross-domain visibility, scheduling, funding, reporting, and unblocking.
Responsibilities
- Own the portfolio operating system
- Own the MDI status dashboard and risk register: a live blocker-level register spanning COMSEC and encryption, policy and authorization, technical infrastructure, customer and stakeholder commitments, and program execution.
- Enforce status hygiene across the portfolio.
- Run the operating cadence: core team stand-ups, weekly cross-functional sync, and program reviews.
- Produce weekly and monthly reporting in the established format: Slack-native updates with named owners and explicit red, yellow, green calls.
- Own the program management toolkit and planning artifacts
- Own MDI's work breakdown structure (machine-generated from Jira) and ensure hygiene for trustworthy outputs
- Own submissions into the division program manager toolkit: repository entries, point-of-contact tracking, and submission deadlines
- Drive charge code and financial hygiene with Finance
- Support annual planning and internal research funding submissions
- Track cloud and infrastructure spend against budget
- Build cross-program technical fluency across classified network architecture, sovereign/classified cloud, edge-to-cloud, expeditionary networking, and C2 integration
- Hold the dependency map across pillars and own the artifact map (architecture diagrams, accreditation packages, milestone trackers, executive reviews, program plans)
- Carry accreditation and compliance program management across US, Australian, and UK frameworks
- Track accreditation campaigns and manage evidence and milestones for assessments
- Coordinate with government and coalition stakeholders, represent MDI in internal/external forums when Lead is unavailable
- Own hiring pipeline coordination, onboarding structure, and access/clearance tracking
- Build and maintain playbooks, trackers, and durable documentation
- Support org design, headcount planning, and budget tracking across pillars
Qualifications
- 6+ years in technical program management, systems engineering, engineering operations, or comparable role in defense or similarly regulated environment
- Demonstrated ability to hold broad technical context across multiple domains (networking, cloud, systems integration) without being deepest expert
- Track record owning schedule, risk, and dependency management for complex programs with external dependencies
- Experience managing execution across distributed teams in multiple countries/time zones
- Strong written communication to convert messy program reality into clear executive-ready status
- Direct experience coordinating with government, military, or regulatory stakeholders
- Comfort operating in classified environments; Active US clearance required, TS/SCI preferred
- Self-starter who builds structure where none exists
- Willingness to travel ~20% for milestones/exercises/customer engagements
- Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret clearance
Skills
Required:Portfolio managementCross-domain coordinationStakeholder management
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available to employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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