Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager

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Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR

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.

Why Join Us?

• 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.

KBR is looking for an experienced, results-oriented System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager to join the team in Bethesda, Maryland. Position supports the customers' mission to manage and oversee prioritized IT investments established by the government. Work requires ensuring that portfolio activities are integrated with other activities across the IC IT and IE enterprises. It also will require contributing information to OMB and congressional inquiries and other reports and briefs.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.