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Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager

United StatesUnited States·Bethesda-Chevy Chaselead
Project & Program ManagementPortfolio Manager
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Key Responsibilities

Translate users' needs and capabilities into

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Project & Program ManagementPortfolio Manager
Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

What We Offer

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✓Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
✓Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
✓Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Responsibilities

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  • →Translate users' needs and capabilities into requirements and detailed technical options for government consideration.
  • →Develop program assessment processes and methodologies.
  • →Track, reporting key progress on, and analyzing cost, schedule, risk, and performance.
  • →Monitor investment compliance.
  • →Provide recommendations to improve integration and interoperability.
  • →Develop program assessment processes ant methodologies to measure and report on portfolios' effectiveness.
  • →Develop business cases, concepts of operations, and memoranda agreements.
  • →Monitor, forecast, evaluate, and assess programmatic trends and relationships.
  • →Develop and maintaining project plans and schedule, as well as integration and transition plans.
  • →Conduct quality reviews of products and deliverables prior to release.
  • →Develop data collection needs and collecting data to facilitate the Customer's decision on investments.
  • →Develop performance goals and key milestones.
  • →Develop schedules, monthly progress updates, changes to the schedule, resources applied, and work breakdown structures.
  • →Provide input to integrated master schedules.
  • →Monitor alignment with IC goals and objectives and key performance indicators.
  • →Account for technology asset lifecycle costs and risks.
  • →Predict and analyze time and cost outcomes.
  • →Facilitate program management reviews and other interagency reviews, which may include organizing and managing logistical requirements for large meetings and forums.
  • →Make recommendations to the Customer on improving business and enterprise oversight processes.
  • →Assess and provide recommendations for aligning requirements to broader investment initiatives and ODNI and IC processes and timelines, to include the Intelligence Planning, Programing, Budget, and Evaluation (IPPBE) cycle.
  • →Collect, monitor, and report on key performance indicators.
  • →Conduct trend analysis.
  • →Develop dashboards and reports to support government oversight and measures of performance of IC investments.
  • →Develop maturity models, as well as plans of action and milestones.
  • →Assist with the developing analysis of alternatives.
  • →Identify and assess IC LE IT capability gaps.
  • →Analyze costs, schedules, outputs, outcomes, performance, and risk.

  • Location: On-site
  • Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20%
  • Working Hours: Standard

Requirements

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$148,900 - $223,400

This range is for the Maryland area only

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Bethesda-Chevy Chase, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US

Listing Details

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October 5, 2026
Last seen
October 5, 2026

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Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager