Sr. Director, Strategy & Program Engineering Management

Job Description
Job Description

Whats it like working for a company where you are treated as more than a number? Empowering. Joining our Information Technology team means you are the backbone behind managing all the technology aspects for multiple contracts and programs that help keep nations safe. With the diversity of our offerings and work, youll get to take on new challenges while your career reaches new heights.

BAE Systems is seeking a Strategy & Program Engineering Management Leader to join our team, and define the strategic direction for digital engineering, digital manufacturing and software development across the enterprise. This includes establishing the longrange vision for modelbased engineering, advanced manufacturing technologies, automation, and modern software engineering practices that enable scalable, secure, and highquality digital solutions. The leader will drive integration of these strategies into enterprise transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and modernization efforts.

This position will lead a team of Program Engineering Managers who ensure technical execution excellence across complex enterprise programs. The role provides strategic engineering leadership, standardizes program engineering practices, oversees program technical performance, and partners with executive stakeholders to drive successful delivery of enterprise technology solutions.

The Strategy & Program Engineering Leader is responsible for:

Specific responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Lead and develop the Program Engineering Management team, including Program Engineering Managers, ensuring strong engineering performance across enterprise projects.
• Set and oversee the enterprise IT wide product lifecycle execution strategy, driving consistent standards, methods, and performance measures across all programs.
• Define and lead the digital engineering and manufacturing strategies for IT, ensuring interoperability, scalable enterprise integration and the application of AI for data driven decision making and workforce productivity
• Drive crossprogram alignment and resource planning to enable consistent engineering execution and optimized technical capacity.
• Partner across business areas, functions, disciplines, and major suppliers to ensure unified execution and effective enterprise solution delivery.
• Ensure rigorous engineering practices, including requirements traceability, design quality, test planning, data migration preparation, and technical baselines.
• Develop engineering talent, skills, and organizational capability through coaching, performance oversight, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee program technical performanceincluding cost, schedule, quality, and riskensuring proposals, plans, and deliveries meet enterprise technical and business requirements.
• As a leader of Program Engineering team, the candidate must work across organizational boundaries to solve problems and ensure successful delivery.
  

Competencies

• Strong leadership skills, along with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Cloud based architectures, model based systems engineering, devsecops, artificial intelligence, data analytics, software development practices, software development lifecycle
• Strong consulting skills, such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Ability to balance the long-term (big picture) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
• Innovative, consultative approach to driving digital business strategies and transformation.
• Business acumen, with the ability to understand and communicate in the language of the business.
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Collaborative and supportive, fostering alignment with business strategies and values.
• Innovative, with strong foresight, systems thinking and design thinking capabilities.
• Vendor- and technology-neutral, focused on achieving targeted business outcomes over personal preferences or those of other business and IT leaders.
• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Required Education, Experience, & Skills

Education:
Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline, with a strong preference for an advanced degree.
Minimum 12+ years of progressive technical leadership experience spanning engineering, manufacturing, software development, or enterprise technology delivery.

Prioritized must haves:
Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, modelbased engineering, automation, and digital manufacturing technologies.
Demonstrated experience developing and executing engineering strategies across digital engineering, model based systems engineering, digital manufacturing, and modern software development environments.
Demonstrated ability to standardize program engineering practices, establish governance mechanisms, define performance metrics, and lead enterprise-wide program engineering management transformation.

Required:
Demonstrated ability to manage technical performance across cost, schedule, quality, and risk, ensuring program objectives are achieved within constraints.
Proven success in leading, developing, and coaching engineering managers and technical leaders within complex program environments.
Skilled in strategic planning, technical road mapping, and investment prioritization, particularly in environments undergoing digital and business transformation.
Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, and stakeholdermanagement skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to executive audiences.
Ability to operate effectively in a highcomplexity, multiprogram environment, driving clarity, alignment, and execution across diverse engineering teams.

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $173023 - $294137

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

About BAE Systems, Inc.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but its what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a teammaking a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, youll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.