Job DescriptionJob DescriptionAdvancing Mission-Critical Solutions
DKC Group is building a National Security Solutions team to provide high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
Innovative Projects: Work at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.Collaborative Environment: Lead a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing air defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of NAVAIR defense.DKC Group is looking for an experienced, results-oriented System Engineer/Program Portfolio Manager to join the team in Patuxent River, Maryland. Position supports the customers’ mission to manage and oversee prioritized IT investments established by the government. Work requires ensuring that portfolio activities are integrated with other activities across the IC IT and IE enterprises. It also will require contributing information to OMB and congressional inquiries and other reports and briefs.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide comprehensive program and investment management support by translating user needs into technical requirements, developing assessment methodologies, and evaluating program effectiveness across cost, schedule, performance, and risk. Responsibilities include monitoring investment compliance, ensuring alignment with IC and ODNI objectives, and offering recommendations to improve integration, interoperability, and enterprise oversight processes.
Support includes creating business cases, concepts of operations, agreements, and detailed project plans, as well as forecasting and analyzing programmatic trends, lifecycle costs, and technology capability gaps. Assist in developing data collection strategies, performance goals, key milestones, dashboards, and maturity models to enhance government oversight and decision‑making.
Facilitate program management and interagency reviews, contributing to integrated schedules, reporting key performance indicators, conducting quality reviews, and supporting analysis of alternatives. Overall, deliver strategic insights and actionable guidance to strengthen planning,
Work Environment:
Location: On-site Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20% Working Hours: Standard
Minimum qualifications:
Active TS/SCI with polygraphBachelor's degree + 8 years of applicable experience is required, or a master’s degree + 6 years of applicable experience. Additional experience can be substituted for degree requirement. 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 in order to work with multiple organizations.Compensation:
This range is for the Maryland area only The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.
DKC Group may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.
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