Software Engineering Manager - Clearance Required
Colorado Springs, COFull-time$129–240K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Software Engineering Manager will lead the C2BMC-Regional Application Agile Release Train team in designing, developing, and testing applications. The role manages technical, cost, and schedule performance across product teams, coordinates dependencies and stakeholders, and supports engineering forecasts, metrics, proposals, and staffing plans. The position requires an active DoD Final Secret Clearance; Top Secret clearance is preferred.
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Full job description
Standard Job Description
Who We Are
- At Lockheed Martin, we believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and forward-thinking, everything is within our reach – and yours as a Lockheed Martin employee. We value your unique skills and expertise, and we aim to give back continuously by offering a wide variety of benefits and amenities to help our employees live flexible, balanced, and fulfilling lives at, and outside of, work.
What We’re Doing
- Our Team, the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Regional team, is constantly engineering, developing and integrating new capabilities for the U.S. Missile Defense System. protecting both the United States and its allies. This large, fast paced team, is composed of many small agile teams working together dynamic environment with a common mission to develop and deploy leading-edge missile defense technologies.
The Work
The C2BMC-Regional Application Agile Release Train is seeking an Engineering Manager that will thrive in a fast paced team environment in the design, development, and testing of the C2BMC applications.
Common responsibilities of an Engineering Manager on the RA ART team include:
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Ensure engineering technical, cost, and schedule performance for assigned product teams are properly managed.
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Interface with Control Account Manager (CAMs) and EVM staff to derive cost and schedule performance.
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Manage dependencies between other product teams and support external dependencies.
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Manage and report technical issues and support proposal development.
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Ensure product team technical commitments are clearly understood and carried out.
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Maintain backlog of assigned features to meet technical commitments.
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Supports the EPM in managing and forecasting technical maturity, including when milestone maturity can be claimed and what OE is required to support such a claim.
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Ensure teams are following organization processes.
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Produce Estimated Time to Complete/Earned Value Management (ETC/EVM) and other engineering metrics to identify and address all technical or staffing issues while managing cost/schedule.
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Performing both internal and external program stakeholder management.
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Executing the ART future vision, standards, and proposals.
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Acting as primary RA manager in COS.
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Ensure team technical commitments are clearly understood and met or exceeded.
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Work with EPM to provide timely and accurate projections of engineering resource requirements and identify staffing needs.
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Ensure teams follow organizational processes.
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Nominally attends all milestone events (in-person when possible).
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Manage other Regional Apps program projects as directed.
Why Join Us
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Excellent benefits and amenities
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Ongoing career development and support
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Rewards and recognition for your hard work
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Medical and dental coverage
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401k retirement savings plan
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Paid time off for work/life balance
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Mentorship opportunities
Standard Job Description: Manages more than one technical engineering and science organization. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
Basic Qualifications
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8+ years of related experience and may have a post-secondary degree or training in a related discipline.
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Experience managing and delivering complex DoD systems. Software systems preferred.
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Experience supporting Earned Value Management.
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Experience with customer relationship management.
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Experience with Agile Development Processes and tools (e.g., Jira, Agility, Confluence).
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Active DoD Final Secret Clearance is required. Top Secret preferred.
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Experience managing / leading multiple teams.
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Demonstrated strong communications skills.
Desired Skills
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Significant progressive experience in complex, defense-grade C2, sensor, or weapon systems (missile defense preferred).
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
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Experience with C2BMC and/or the Missile Defense System.
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Program management and/or agile process certification.
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Prior experience as a functional manager.
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CAM certification and/or EVM experience.
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Prior functional manager experience.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $129000.00 - $239600.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
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Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
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For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,012 open Software Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$129–240K/yr
- Colorado median$150–252K/yr23 salary ranges
- US median$143–262K/yr855 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $184K, is 6% below the Colorado median midpoint ($195K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering Manager salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Software Engineering Manager jobs in Colorado and 1,012 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)7 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (927 postings).
- Education
- 433 of the 1,012 open Software Engineering Manager jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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