IT Project & Portfolio Manager
BAE Systems USAJob Description What’s it like working for a company where your project decisions directly support national security missions? At BAE Systems, meaningful work, collaboration, and continuous growth come together to help our customers deliver critical capabilities with confidence. As an IT Project & Portfolio Manager, you will lead technology projects and manage a portfolio of IT capabilities from requirements and acquisition through delivery, sustainment, and continual improvement. This role integrates project management, IT investment planning, cybersecurity, supply-chain risk management, service management, and lifecycle cost oversight to ensure investments remain aligned with mission and enterprise priorities. This position is designated as a DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) cyber workforce role aligned to Work Role 802 (IT Project Manager) and Work Role 804 (IT Investment/Portfolio Manager). The successful candidate will apply cybersecurity and risk-management considerations throughout project, acquisition, contracting, cloud, supplier, and service-management activities while supporting classified and mission-critical environments. In this job, you will: Plan, organize, schedule, and execute concurrent IT projects and portfolio initiatives, maintaining scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, dependencies, and performance measures aligned with enterprise mission objectives. Translate mission needs and requirements into prioritized IT investments, acquisition strategies, lifecycle plans, and measurable outcomes; recommend improvements, upgrades, and business-process solutions. Lead project and portfolio governance activities, including resource planning, budgeting, contracting, lifecycle cost estimates, corrective actions, and executive-level reporting. Integrate cybersecurity, network, system, cloud, performance, and supply-chain security requirements into project plans, acquisition packages, statements of work, service agreements, and acceptance criteria. Evaluate procurement and supplier activities for information-security and supply-chain risk; assess supplier/product trustworthiness and support acquisition decisions throughout the procurement lifecycle. Develop and monitor risk, compliance, and assurance measures, including RMF-informed risk analysis, threat assessment, mitigation planning, audit support, and documentation of supply-chain risks for critical system elements. Coordinate and service end-to-end IT service delivery with internal process owners, service managers, product owners, customers, vendors, and cybersecurity stakeholders; help define operating-level agreements, SLAs, and underpinning contracts. Review service and project performance data, customer feedback, issues, variances, and corrective actions to drive continual improvement and ensure required outcomes are achieved. Apply enterprise architecture, system lifecycle, networking, cloud-service, and cloud-deployment concepts when evaluating solution options across on-premises, private, public, and hybrid environments. Support continuity, resilience, and operational planning by incorporating enterprise cybersecurity and supply-chain risk-management considerations into project and portfolio decisions. Navigate applicable laws, regulations, policies, standards, ethics, and import/export considerations affecting cybersecurity technologies, cryptography, acquisition, and supply-chain risk. Communicate effectively with technical teams, business leaders, customers, contracting personnel, security professionals, and senior stakeholders to resolve conflicts, establish priorities, and sustain mission alignment. Required Education, Experience, & Skills Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field, plus relevant professional experience managing complex IT projects, programs, or investment portfolios; equivalent military or additional directly relevant exper…