Senior Acquisition Portfolio Lead

Pantheon-Data; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

SmartBenefits transit

Tuition assistance

Flexible work location

Job summary

Pantheon Data seeks an experienced leader to design and implement a portfolio management framework for DHS acquisition paths. You will own the governance, criteria, and artifacts, and defend the approach with senior executives.

You will lead a two-person team, collaborate with an information designer, and present to government stakeholders. Onsite in Washington, DC is expected, with remote work options as appropriate.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in federal acquisition program management, acquisition oversight, or acquisition governance.
• Experience designing or shaping acquisition governance processes, assessment criteria, or portfolio constructs.
• Direct experience supporting or operating within a Component Acquisition Executive office or equivalent oversight body.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical scope end to end: acquisition pathway identification, portfolio management construct, implementation roadmap, and portfolio performance management.
• Develop criteria evaluating investments across strategic alignment, business value, technical health, and acquisition readiness.
• Design the governance process and build consensus across program offices.
• Facilitate working sessions with senior government stakeholders and translate outputs into structured artifacts.
• Sequence an implementation roadmap based on actual maturity, not ideal-state models.
• Author the Project Management Plan and lead the post-award kickoff.
• Serve as primary government Program Manager and COR contact.
• Direct the information designer and integrate workstreams into coherent deliverables.

Skills

Facilitation

Executive communication

Policy drafting

Authoring capabilities

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

DHS Directive 102-01

Job description

Company Overview

Pantheon Data ( a Kenific Holding company ) is a private, small business based in the Washington, DC, area. Pantheon Data was founded in 2011, initially providing acquisition and supply chain management services to the US Coast Guard. Our service offerings have grown in the past ten years, including infrastructure resiliency, contact center operations, information technology, software engineering, program management, strategic communications, engineering, and cybersecurity. We have also grown our customer base to include commercial clients. The company has used this experience to expand our service offerings to other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other Federal Civilian Agencies.

About This Position

A federal acquisition oversight office needs to build a portfolio management framework where none exists today. Recent DHS policy consolidated acquisition and requirements management into a single directive, established a five-pathway acquisition framework, and made Component Acquisition Executives responsible for validating which pathway each program follows.

This role will design how this organization identifies the right acquisition pathway for a candidate investment, how it inventories and groups what it already owns, how it assesses and prioritizes, how governance decisions get made and by whom, how the framework gets implemented given what the organization can realistically absorb, and how portfolio performance gets measured afterward.

You’ll lead a two-person team, working with an information designer who turns your constructs into artifacts people will actually use. You own the substance, the client relationship, and the defensibility of what gets delivered. This is not a support role attached to a government program office. You’ll be building something, presenting it to senior executives, and defending the reasoning.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical scope end to end: acquisition pathway identification criteria, the portfolio management construct, the implementation roadmap, and the portfolio performance management process.
• Develop criteria for evaluating investments across strategic alignment, business value, technical health, program health, and acquisition readiness.
• Design the governance process - participants, roles, responsibilities, and decision authority - and build consensus around it across program offices that don’t currently share one.
• Facilitate working sessions with senior government stakeholders, including executives, and translate what surfaces into structure.
• Sequence an implementation roadmap against the organization’s actual maturity rather than an ideal-state model.
• Author the Project Management Plan and lead the post-award kickoff.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the government Program Manager and COR.
• Direct the work of the information designer and integrate both workstreams into coherent deliverables.

What We’re Looking For:

• Someone who has been on the governing side of acquisition oversight, not only inside a program office. You should have opinions about what makes a portfolio construct work, formed by watching some of them fail.
• The hardest part of this engagement isn’t analytical. It’s getting a set of program offices with different incentives to accept a common taxonomy, a common set of assessment criteria, and a governance process that constrains them. That requires credibility with senior executives, genuine facilitation skill, and a tolerance for being told no and coming back with a better answer.
• You’ll also write. On a two-person team there’s no one to hand a draft to - you author the constructs yourself and the information designer renders them.

Required Skills and Experience

• 12+ years in federal acquisition program management, acquisition oversight, or acquisition governance.
• Working fluency in DHS Directive 102-01 as recently reissued, including the pathway framework and the Component Acquisition Executive’s role in pathway validation.
• Demonstrated experience designing or substantially shaping acquisition governance processes, assessment criteria, portfolio constructs, or equivalent frameworks.
• Direct experience supporting or operating within a Component Acquisition Executive office, a Chief Acquisition Officer organization, or equivalent oversight body.
• Proven facilitation with senior executives, including sessions where stakeholders disagree.
• Strong authoring ability: policy, process documentation, and executive-level analysis.
• Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC.
• Experience spanning both IT and non-IT investment governance.

Education

High School Diploma

Clearance Requirements

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements. Ability to obtain Public Trust prior to hire and maintain during employment is required.

Work Location:

United States - Remote (East Coast Preferred)

• Our company prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.
• If the position is remote or hybrid, you may periodically work from a Pantheon Data office location or client site.
• If this position is assigned to a Pantheon Data office location or client site, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for specific client requirements.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $150,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Benefits Overview

We are always looking for good people! Pantheon Data is committed to providing its employees with competitive salaries and benefits in order to increase employee satisfaction and productivity. In addition to our benefits, we also offer SmartBenefits through the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority, where you specify an amount of your pre-tax wages be paid directly to your SmarTrip account. In some cases, tuition assistance may be available for continuing education expenses and certifications related to their position. Additional details may be found at https://pantheon-data.com/careers/

Pantheon Data Important Information

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