Portfolio Manager

Leidos•Ashburn, VA

About The Position

The Airports, Borders & Security Business Area within Leidos is seeking a Portfolio Manager to provide technical and personnel leadership for contractor staff supporting Custom and Border Protection’s Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD). The selected individual will be accountable and responsible for: The modernization, enhancement, operation, and maintenance of ~20 applications and systems that are critical to the execution of CBP’s mission. Collaboration with their government counterparts (Division Manager & Branch Chiefs) and architecture to establish a technical and mission based roadmap of capabilities that deliver new features to CBP while modernizing and ensuring the resiliency of the applications within their portfolio. Successful on-time delivery of capabilities detailed in the roadmap. Coordinating with stakeholders and portfolio staff to identify and implement innovations and opportunities that leverage cloud services, AI/ML, and agile best practices to deliver capabilities at the speed of mission while ensuring no impact to on-going operations. Ensuring personnel comply with program and Leidos processes, policies and procedures.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology with 15 years of experience.
10 years of experience leading a project/program of 100+ software and systems engineers across multiple agile software development teams providing operations & maintenance and enhancement of ~20 mission critical systems.
10 years of personnel leadership including hiring and managing personnel actions in collaboration with Human Resources.
7 years of experience working in a DevSecOps environment, incorporating CI/CD to improve SW quality, reduce security vulnerabilities, and ensure regular build cadence.
At least 5 years of experience leading software teams performing O&M of applications & associated databases in a cloud-based environment.
Experience leading application teams to implement cloud-based services (e.g., AWS, Google) to improve application resiliency and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Must be able to maintain and obtain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start.
Must be a US citizen.
Proven experience working with SW development teams to integrate Generative AI into the software development lifecycle.
Proven experience working with software engineers and systems engineers integrating agile best practices with AI.
Proven experience working with stakeholders to establish and maintain a long-term roadmap of capabilities and deliver on schedule.
Ability to work with stakeholders and application teams to convert roadmap content into quarterly Program Increments.

Nice To Haves

Recent experience within the past 10 years performing Java SW development in a cloud-hosted environment.
Experience delivering SW projects that support the CBP or DHS mission.
Demonstrated experience with NIST SP 800 series or ISO 27000 series documents for information security management and risk assessment.
Demonstrated experience standing up Data Warehouses and various ETL/data integration technologies.
Demonstrated experience applying AI and/or data analytic tools (e.g., PowerBI, Python, Excel, etc.) to analyze and improve business performance/outcomes.
PMP certification & Certified Scrum Master.
Active Full CBP BI.

Responsibilities

Modernization, enhancement, operation, and maintenance of ~20 applications and systems.
Collaboration with government counterparts to establish a technical and mission-based roadmap of capabilities.
Successful on-time delivery of capabilities detailed in the roadmap.
Coordinating with stakeholders and portfolio staff to identify and implement innovations and opportunities leveraging cloud services, AI/ML, and agile best practices.
Ensuring personnel comply with program and Leidos processes, policies and procedures.