Senior Principal Portfolio Manager

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.; Tucson (AZ); In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

PTO 20 days + 10 holidays

6% 401k match

ESOP

Educational reimbursement up to $10, 0

Bonus eligibility (semi-annual)

Health insurance

Descrizione del lavoro

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) seeks a Portfolio Manager to support the ARCWERX Innovation Center by overseeing a diverse portfolio of innovation projects sourced from ARCWERX engagements with Air Reserve Component units, industry partners, academia, and other DoD innovation cells.

The role ensures alignment with ARCWERX objectives and tracks outcomes with standardized evaluation and analytics tools.

Competenze

• Experience supporting technology or innovation portfolios within DoD, government, or commercial environments.
• Proficiency in portfolio management, project tracking, metrics design, and results-based evaluation.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams including industry, academia, military operators, and government stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, including briefing leadership and translating technical insights into decision-ready information.
• Familiarity with ARCWERX, AFWERX, AFRL, or other DoD innovation organizations (preferred).
• Comprehensive understanding of FAR

Mansioni

• Manage, organize, and evaluate a multi-project innovation portfolio across technology development, education programs, experimentation, and industry engagement.
• Establish and apply a framework for measuring project effectiveness, mission impact, deterrent value, and ROI.
• Maintain situational awareness of active projects, dependencies, risks, timelines, and resources.
• Facilitate communication across ARCWERX leadership, end users, industry partners, DoD hubs, and academic collaborators.
• Track portfolio data using standardized reporting tools; ensure data is accurate and actionable.
• Provide analyses, trend identification, and prioritization recommendations across the ecosystem.
• Coordinate with Tech Scouts to align discovered technologies with portfolio needs and objectives.
• Support education program metrics and integration into portfolio evaluation.
• Assist in designing and optimizing dashboards and analytics tools to visualize status and outcomes.

Conoscenze

Portfolio management

Project tracking

Metrics design

Results-based evaluation

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Communication skills

Briefing leadership

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree with 18+ years experience

Master’s degree with 10 years experience

Descrizione del lavoro

Role Overview

The Portfolio Manager supports the ARCWERX Innovation Center by overseeing a diverse portfolio of innovation projects sourced from ARCWERX engagements with Air Reserve Component units, industry partners, academia, and other military innovation cells. This role ensures that each project is strategically aligned with ARCWERX objectives, contributes measurable outcomes to Air Force Reserve Command priorities, and is tracked using standardized evaluation, reporting, and analytics tools. The Portfolio Manager drives transparency, prioritization, and return-on-investment (ROI) insights across the entire innovation ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, organize, and evaluate a multi-project innovation portfolio spanning technology development, education programs, experimentation activities, and industry engagement efforts.
• Establish and apply a standardized framework for measuring project effectiveness, mission impact, strategic deterrent value, and return on investment.
• Maintain continuous situational awareness of all active projects, dependencies, risks, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Facilitate communication across ARCWERX leadership, end users, industry partners, DoD innovation hubs, and academic collaborators.
• Track project performance using standardized reporting tools and ensure all portfolio data is accurate, timely, and actionable.
• Support decision-making by providing analyses, trend identification, and prioritization recommendations across the ARCWERX innovation ecosystem.
• Coordinate with Tech Scouts to align discovered technologies with portfolio needs and strategic objectives.
• Support development and validation of education program effectiveness metrics and integration of these metrics into the broader portfolio evaluation model.
• Assist in designing and optimizing digital systems, dashboards, and analytics tools used to visualize project status and outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting technology or innovation portfolios within DoD, government, or commercial environments.
• Proficiency in portfolio management, project tracking, metrics design, and results-based evaluation.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams including industry, academia, military operators, and government stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to brief leadership and translate technical insights into decision-ready information.
• Familiarity with innovation ecosystems such as ARCWERX, AFWERX, AFRL, or other DoD innovation organizations (preferred).
• Comprehensive understanding of federal acquisition regulations (FAR)

Desired Skills

• Experience with ROI modeling, impact assessment frameworks, and technology transition processes.
• Understanding of Air Force Reserve mission sets and operational constraints.
• Data analysis or dashboarding experience (Excel, Power BI, Tableau, similar).
• Background in rapid acquisition, prototyping, or technology scouting.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) and at least 18 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree (MA/MS) and 10 years of relevant experience

Clearance Requirements

• Secret clearance required

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Interesting Work

Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.

Values

Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.

100% Employee Owned

We have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.

Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for

• Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
• Flexible schedules
• 6% 401k match with immediate vesting up to $9k annually
• Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
• Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
• Up to $10,000 in annual educational reimbursement
• Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
• Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan

Track Record of Success

We have grown every year since our founding in 1993.

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com

MTSI embraces nine core values including our first core value of Employees come first. Consistent with our Core Values, we are committed to Equal Opportunity, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, military/veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. MTSI is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with physical and/or mental disabilities.