Army Program Manager-Texas

Company Description

Dcode is a team of doers dedicated to bridging the gap between the speed of technology and the federal government. We align people, culture, policies, and processes to get tech in the hands of those who need it most. Operating at the nexus of government leaders, emerging tech companies, and venture capital, we turn roadblocks into results.

Job Description

Dcode is seeking three high-performing Program Managers to support a defense client at Fort Hood in a dynamic, fast-paced Army innovation environment supporting military vehicle acquisition, modernization, and enabling digital capabilities. This single posting will be used to hire one Program Manager in each of the following specialties:

1. Software Acquisition
2. Automation & Operations
3. Acquisition & Contracting Vehicle Execution

Each selected Program Manager will own one primary specialty. Candidates are not expected to demonstrate deep expertise in all three areas and should identify the specialty that best matches their experience.

Across the team, the Program Managers will translate mission needs into executable plans, manage efforts from problem definition through award, pilot, fielding, transition, or sustained operations, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include operators, systems developers, software vendors, cybersecurity stakeholders, data owners, contracting professionals, legal and fiscal advisors, industry, academia, and senior Army acquisition leaders.

The work blends program management, agile delivery, stakeholder facilitation, technical fluency, and operational ownership. One day you might be aligning a software licensing and fielding strategy; the next, stabilizing an automation workflow, developing an acquisition package, or facilitating a decision with operators, developers, and contracting professionals. Success is measured by reliable operations, executable awards, fielded outcomes, and capabilities that transition to sustained Army use.

Duty Station: Fort Hood, TX

Salary range: $98,000-$130,000 plus bi-annual bonuses.

Top Secret clearance or higher is strongly preferred. Eligibility for clearance is required.

Job ResponsibilitiesCore Responsibilities Across All Specialties

Client & Mission Success

• Serve as a trusted partner to Army and DoW stakeholders operating across operational, program, and acquisition ecosystems.
• Translate operational problems into clear user outcomes, requirements, scope, acquisition constraints, deliverables, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate collaboration across operators, product and technical teams, Systems Developers, software vendors, cybersecurity, data owners, contracting, legal, fiscal, and senior acquisition stakeholders.
• Help structure pilots, prototypes, experiments, and operational assessments so they generate evidence for adoption, scaling, transition, and sustainment decisions.
• Lead workshops, process reviews, assessments, and decision packages that make options, tradeoffs, timelines, risks, and required government actions clear to technical and nontechnical leaders.
• Continuously collect user feedback and refine execution, adoption, fielding, and transition approaches based on mission outcomes.

Program and Project Delivery

• Own day-to-day delivery for assigned workstreams from need identification through the appropriate end state, including acquisition, pilot, deployment, award, transition, or sustained operations.
• Build integrated plans, schedules, and backlogs with clear owners, dependencies, milestones, decision points, acceptance criteria, and fallback routes.
• Apply agile and Scrum methods to plan, execute, and adapt work in small increments while protecting ongoing mission operations.
• Define and track performance measures such as milestone achievement, cycle time, reliability, adoption, data quality, user outcomes, and time saved.
• Coordinate closely with Dcode leadership and Field Experts to bring the right expertise into projects at the right time.
• Identify risks and blockers early, drive coordinated mitigation, and communicate status, tradeoffs, decisions, and support requests clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain high-quality requirements, plans, trackers, decision logs, user guidance, transition materials, and lessons-learned documentation.

Technical & Systems Support (Program-Level)

Partner with Systems Developers, platform and tool teams, vendors, and technical and operational subject matter experts while remaining accountable for program-level outcomes.

Understand software, automation, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment considerations well enough to translate between operational users, acquisition stakeholders, and technical contributors.

Pull cybersecurity, RMF/ATO, identity and access, data handling, IP/data rights, interoperability, hosting, integration, and security constraints forward so they do not become late-stage blockers.

Support configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and sustainment planning appropriate to the assigned specialty and workstream.

Operational & Contract Management

Understand and manage Dcode contract requirements while driving measurable delivery and mission outcomes for the client.

Maintain operating cadence, issue tracking, backlog or package hygiene, funding and milestone visibility, and follow-through across multiple simultaneous efforts.

Identify recurring manual work, unnecessary approvals, administrative delays, policy barriers, and coordination bottlenecks and drive practical fixes.

Build repeatable playbooks, templates, checklists, workflows, and transition practices that increase speed, transparency, compliance, and resilience to personnel turnover.