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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Portfolio Manager

Leidos senior full-time

Salary

$154,050 - $278,475 per year

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Description

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 approximately 20 applications and systems that are critical to the execution of CBP’s mission.
  • Collaboration with government counterparts 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.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 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 spread across multiple agile software development teams that provide operations & maintenance and enhancement of approximately 20 mission-critical systems.
  • 10 years of personnel leadership to include activities such as hiring and managing personnel actions in collaboration with Human Resources.
  • 7 years of experience working in a DevSecOps environment to include working with SW teams to incorporate 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 residing in a cloud-based environment in addition to leading application teams to implement cloud-based services provided by cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google) to improve application resiliency and reduce operations and maintenance cost.
  • 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 cutting-edge Generative AI into the software development lifecycle to increase productivity while ensuring the quality of delivered capabilities.
  • Proven experience working side-by-side with software engineers and systems engineers integrating agile best practices with AI to quickly develop software solutions for stakeholders.
  • Proven experience working with stakeholders to establish and maintain long-term roadmap of capabilities with the ability to deliver on the capabilities detailed on the roadmap on schedule.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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.

The pay range for this job is $154,050.00 - $278,475.00.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • CBP or DHS Mission
  • NIST SP 800 series
  • ISO 27000 series
  • PMP certification
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Active Full CBP BI

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Ashburn-VA/Portfolio-Manager_R-00193204-1

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