Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lanteris Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Program Manager for Flight Software Portfolio Management to join their leadership team. This role focuses on driving financial and operational excellence across the Flight Software portfolio by establishing standards for cost tracking and resource planning, while providing actionable insights to optimize the portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Drive consistent cost-estimation tools, techniques, and practices across all existing FSW/GNC projects and proposal efforts
- Monitor and analyze project cost performance, identifying variances and trends to drive actionable insights to the FSW leaders to maintain cost baselines
- Coordinate with Finance to drive proper cost allocation, tracking, and reporting across the FSW portfolio
- Interface with proposal activities to estimate and justify FSW/GNC BOEs
- Create dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide visibility into FSW organizations’ health
- Collaborate with the FSW Leaders and FSW Chief Engineering team to align technical capability growth for current and future business needs, enabling proactive workforce planning and skills investment decisions
- Facilitate regular and timely meetings with FSW leaders to review resource needs and project status, identify improvement opportunities, and implement process enhancements that drive efficiency
- Collaborate with Business Development and Proposal Team to establish and maintain standardized WBS templates and frameworks for new business proposals
- Create WBS dictionaries and guidelines to ensure uniform application across the organization
- Ensure consistency in cost estimation approaches across all FSW bids and proposals
- Serve as the central coordination POC between FSW Leaders and other SW Teams (Ground Software, Integration and Test etc.), finance, and program stakeholders
- Drive communication with the stakeholders to ensure that the dependencies to and from FSW are understood and met timely
Skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business/Finance
- Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, engineering operations, program management, project controls, cost management, or related technical disciplines
- Drive consistent cost-estimation tools, techniques, and practices across all existing FSW/GNC projects and proposal efforts
- Monitor and analyze project cost performance, identifying variances and trends to drive actionable insights to the FSW leaders to maintain cost baselines
- Coordinate with Finance to drive proper cost allocation, tracking, and reporting across the FSW portfolio
- Interface with proposal activities to estimate and justify FSW/GNC BOEs
- Create dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide visibility into FSW organizations' health
- Collaborate with the FSW Leaders and FSW Chief Engineering team to align technical capability growth for current and future business needs, enabling proactive workforce planning and skills investment decisions
- Facilitate regular and timely meetings with FSW leaders to review resource needs and project status, identify improvement opportunities, and implement process enhancements that drive efficiency
- Collaborate with Business Development and Proposal Team to establish and maintain standardized WBS templates and frameworks for new business proposals
- Create WBS dictionaries and guidelines to ensure uniform application across the organization
- Ensure consistency in cost estimation approaches across all FSW bids and proposals
- Serve as the central coordination POC between FSW Leaders and other SW Teams (Ground Software, Integration and Test etc.), finance, and program stakeholders
- Drive communication with the stakeholders to ensure that the dependencies to and from FSW are understood and met timely
- Strong understanding of project cost accounting principles, indirect/direct cost allocation, and overhead structures
- Experience developing budgets, forecasts, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) analysis
- Expert knowledge of WBS creation, standardization, and management
- Ability to analyze financial data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights
- Proficiency with integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, risk management and milestone tracking
- Experience with resource loading, capacity planning, and skills matrix development
- Understanding of both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience defining and tracking KPIs, dashboards, and program health indicators
- MS Project, SAP, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools
- Familiarity with parametric estimating tools and cost databases, particularly SEER-SEM
- Understanding of flight software development processes, phases, and deliverables
- Familiarity with industry standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150, CMMI) as applicable
- Basic knowledge of systems engineering principles and V&V processes
- Ability to present complex financial and performance information to senior leadership
- Proven ability to work effectively across engineering, finance, and business teams
- 3 years of experience in FSW and Aerospace
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Agile/Scrum Certifications
- Experience with CMMI-3
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health and welfare insurance
- 401(k) to eligible employees
- Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions
Company Overview
Lanteris Space Systems is a prominent manufacturer of satellites and space systems for government and commercial customers. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.lanterisspace.com.