Portfolio Operations Leader: Delivery Intelligence

Booz Allen

McLean (VA)

On-site

USD 143,000 - 266,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Booz Allen seeks a Senior Manager to lead Portfolio Operations within the CIO. You will establish an integrated delivery intelligence system, connect priorities, plans, capacity, and outcomes, and drive actionable insights across programs.

This role blends enterprise leadership with hands-on technology depth to improve planning predictability and reduce delays. You will mentor portfolio operations practitioners, shape governance cadences, and advance automation and AI-enabled agents while

Qualifications

8+ years of experience leading business operations, portfolio operations, program delivery, or enterprise execution systems across multiple concurrent initiatives.
5+ years leading or operating a PMO, including portfolio governance, integrated planning, prioritization, performance reporting, delivery oversight, dependency management, delivery forecasting, capacity transparency, and executive operating cadences.
5+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching a team of portfolio management operations staff.
5+ years of experience in enterprise IT, technology transformation, or a complex CIO environment.
3+ years of experience building or evolving enterprise portfolio and delivery intelligence systems, including data governance and reporting automation.
3+ years of experience with data and systems engineering for operational workflows, including integrations, APIs, orchestration, data quality, testing, evaluation, monitoring, or secure access practices.
Ability to interpret delivery and flow measures, identify systemic blockers, and translate evidence into practical improvement actions.
Ability to design, build, and operationalize AI-enabled workflow automation or agentic systems, including leading engineering and deployment work rather than only selecting vendors or configuring dashboards.

Responsibilities

Establish and continuously improve the CIO's enterprise operating rhythm for planning and execution, including quarterly and planning-increment cycles, decision forums, readiness criteria, and consistent planning outputs.
Translate approved priorities into executable plans with clear milestones, assumptions, dependencies, measures, and accountable owners.
Strengthen commitment quality and reduce avoidable reactive work.
Build and operate an integrated delivery intelligence system across multiple programs, connecting priorities, plans, capacity, delivery performance, risks, decisions, and outcomes through common data definitions and practical reporting standards.
Create a forward-looking view of capacity with delivery leaders.
Model what can be delivered with available capacity and the impact of priority changes without taking staffing authority.
Define delivery and flow guardrails and use system-level measures such as predictability, lead and cycle time, flow efficiency, throughput stability, and quality trends to identify blockers and drive continuous improvement.
Lead execution health reviews for CIO leadership.
Distinguish facts, forecasts, assumptions, and risks, and turn dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery concerns into decision-ready options.
Rethink portfolio operations end-to-end and lead a staged roadmap to automate and agentify repeatable work, including data validation, schedule variance detection, dependency and risk signals, scenario analysis, status synthesis, and action tracking.
Lead the design and implementation of the delivery intelligence architecture, data integrations, automations, and AI-enabled agents.