Senior System Engineer & Portfolio Manager for National Security

KBR Careers; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

AD&D

Flexible spending account

Disability

Paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

KBR seeks a Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager for the National Security Solutions team in Bethesda, MD. You will translate user needs into government-ready requirements, develop assessment methods, and monitor cost, schedule, risk, and performance to support IC investment decisions.

Requires TS/SCI with polygraph, a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years (or a master’s with 6+ years), and strong data analysis and coordination skills to collaborate across agencies and deliver

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree + 8 years of applicable experience, or Master’s degree + 6 years. Additional experience can substitute for degree.
• Experience manipulating data to pull out pertinent information for intelligence products.
• Experience coordinating with multiple community partners.
• Experience with managing multiple time sensitive deliverables.
• Strong communication skills are required to work with multiple organizations.

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.
• Account for technology asset lifecycle costs and risks.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Data analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Time-sensitive deliverables

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8 years experience or Master’s + 6 years

Job description

KBR seeks a Principal System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager for the National Security Solutions team in Bethesda, MD. You will translate user needs into government-ready requirements, develop assessment methods, and monitor cost, schedule, risk, and performance to support IC investment decisions.

Requires TS/SCI with polygraph, a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years (or a master’s with 6+ years), and strong data analysis and coordination skills to collaborate across agencies and deliver