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The Wingbrace Development organization is charged with identifying, developing and applying new technologies that can address the Government's most challenging Software, Systems, Cloud and Data Engineering problems.  This is an opportunity for an experienced Program Manager for our Digital Engineering (DE) team in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a Program Manager you will be responsible for a growing team implementing and maintaining Digital Infrastructure, developing and maintaining a Knowledge Management Ecosystem and curating Digital Threads for science and technology projects advancing next generation US Air Force capabilities. You will have internal and external relationships to cultivate and expand.  You will leverage your consensus building skills to keep stakeholders focused and aligned on next steps to achieve outcomes in a systematic and timely fashion. You will balance your team’s contractual delivery obligations while supporting the growth of new opportunities.   You are comfortable with Agile concepts to support your government stakeholders and your Wingbrace team, conducting retrospectives (after action reviews), and conversant in architecture concepts, systems, and technologies that enable improvements to Airforce capabilities. You hold yourself and teammates accountable for client delivery quality, responsiveness, and transparency. You are aligned with and become a Wingbrace ambassador for living our Values of Kindness, Creativity and Outcomes, which have distinguished Wingbrace in the marketplace for both our clients and employees.   This position is in-office in Albuquerque, New Mexico  and requires working on Kirtland AF base with limited remote work.  Day to day responsibilities  * You will work with the engineering team to make decisions about Agile Software Capability Development, Systems/Digital Engineering, System Administration oversight and delivery dependencies (licenses, partner agreements, etc.) for Wingbrace commitments. You will work with the Chief of Global Delivery to identify new threads of work and development of Agile plans and structures.   * You will work directly with government stakeholders to set clear expectations, understand the needs and priorities to define and deliver solutions to enable mission outcomes    * Program Management    * Managing clients and Wingbrace team members, you will balance the evolving teams that you lead into client facing effective delivery organizations. You will implement and nurture a vibrant and fun culture embracing the mission of the client – imparting to Wingbrace teams the need to partner with and lead their clients in the delivery of greater outcomes.   * You will monitor and ensure all deliverables across the project are being met, including, but not limited to Monthly Status Reports (MSRs), monthly invoices, scope changes, project variances, solution contingencies, timecard management, staffing and financial forecasting, partnership, and sub-contractor management, and deliverable satisfaction.    * You will lead all phases of assigned projects from initiation through delivery You will partner with the business development team and subject matter experts to solution and write responses to RFI (Request for Information) and RFPs (Requests for Proposals)    * Business Development    * Your natural ability to identify issues and concerns is on display daily as you seek to assist the government in managing challenging circumstances that you may be able to help solve.   * You will engage in discussions where identification of future growth will inevitably appear. You will communicate with the BD team at the executive level to engage in brainstorming and government solution resolution. 
  Skills/Education/Certification  Required:  * A US Citizen with a Security Clearance    * Active Top-Secret clearance   * SCI eligible    * You will have experience working in, with and across the one or more of the following:  Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC), or other government organization   * You will have a technical understanding of Digital Engineering and or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and languages such as Dassault (NoMagic) Cameo Enterprise Architect, Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), and SysML (Systems Modeling Language)    * You will be conversant in Science and Technology-related projects    * Minimum of 3 years' experience in leadership and Program Management in Department of Defense (DoD)   * Acquisition and contract management     * Education Required:   * Position requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and 8 years of directly related technical and Program management experience with Business Development as part of your responsibilities   Benefits   * We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.    * Premium Insurance: We cover up to 80% of the employee premium and combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 80% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.   * Retirement: 401k match at 4% gross pay.   * Paid time off (PTO): vacation, sick leave, Federal holidays, and floating Holidays.   * Education & Training: We invest in our team’s growth offering training opportunities that work for you, such as in-house, online, mentoring, conferences and classroom training.  About Wingbrace    Wingbrace (www.wingbrace.com) is a mission driven, customer-focused Service-Disabled Veteran Owned small business. We transform digital engineering and authoritative data into decision intelligence. We push the boundaries of engineering and emerging technologies. We develop transformative data solutions, advanced systems modeling, and decision‑intelligence platforms essential to national defense programs. We code, we architect, we engineer, and we have fun doing it. Whether we’re simulating in a synthetic battlespace, innovating inside our AFFINITY Labs™, or claiming first place at the annual hot‑wings competition, we bring curiosity, creativity, and energy to every challenge. Join us at Wingbrace and lean into the future.  Wingbrace LLC is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic.  We value each individual and empower our people to fearlessly drive lasting change.