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United States
Remote only
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a CWS Portfolio Product Architect based in the United States.
This senior-level, remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced product and systems professional with expertise in federal acquisition, contract writing, procurement, and enterprise application delivery. You will lead portfolio-level product strategy and roadmap development for Contract Writing Systems (CWS) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) capabilities, aligning mission priorities with delivery execution. Working closely with Government stakeholders, functional users, enterprise architects, and technical delivery teams, you will translate complex operational needs into actionable product plans and delivery-ready requirements. You will help coordinate modernization, cybersecurity, integration, and technical-debt reduction initiatives while ensuring alignment with approved priorities, funding, and contractual scope. Through strategic stakeholder engagement and data-driven performance insights, you will support informed decision-making and continuous improvement. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise technology direction and deliver meaningful outcomes across complex federal acquisition systems.
Lead the development and ongoing maintenance of the integrated product vision and roadmap for assigned CWS and P2P capabilities, currently including CON-IT, ACWS, and ECWM.
Support product strategy and roadmap planning for additional CWS/P2P capabilities when awarded and within the authorized contractual scope.
Align sustainment, modernization, technical-debt reduction, user adoption, cybersecurity, data, integration, and emerging-technology initiatives with Government-approved priorities, mission objectives, available funding, and delivery capacity.
Identify strategic capability gaps, modernization opportunities, operational challenges, and opportunities for portfolio-level coordination to improve mission outcomes.
Develop clear product artifacts, including roadmaps, capability maps, release themes, planning assumptions, decision briefings, and product strategy materials.
Translate approved mission and stakeholder needs into actionable requirements by collaborating with Government stakeholders, functional users, technical leads, and delivery teams.
Refine epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, and non-functional requirements to support effective planning, development, testing, and releases.
Maintain traceability between delivery activities and authorized requirements, priorities, funding decisions, acceptance authorities, and applicable policies.
Ensure proposed capabilities account for end-user workflows, business-process impacts, policy and regulatory drivers, cybersecurity requirements, data needs, and downstream system effects.
Facilitate timely clarification of functional and mission requirements to reduce ambiguity and support sound technical design decisions.
Coordinate across the CWS and P2P portfolio to assess shared data and interface dependencies, business-process impacts, downstream user effects, sequencing needs, and external decision points.
Partner with enterprise architecture, pod leadership, program management, and designated Government product and technical leaders to balance immediate mission needs with long-term modernization goals.
Ensure product planning considers enterprise architecture standards, integration patterns, cybersecurity remediation, technical debt, funding constraints, and delivery capacity.
Assess the effects of planned changes on connected systems, interfaces, user communities, operational processes, data exchanges, and release schedules.
Lead product-level stakeholder engagement through backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, release-readiness discussions, and user-feedback sessions.
Ensure delivery teams receive timely clarification of requirements, priorities, acceptance expectations, and stakeholder needs.
Provide Government stakeholders with transparent visibility into planned outcomes, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, assumptions, and decisions requiring attention.
Build and maintain productive relationships across acquisition, contracting, procurement, financial management, technical, operational, and program stakeholder groups.
Prepare and facilitate product governance forums, decision briefings, working sessions, and stakeholder communications.
Monitor portfolio performance using product-oriented measures such as backlog health, feature throughput, aging demand, stakeholder acceptance, adoption trends, release outcomes, recurring user issues, technical-debt trends, dependency risks, and delivery predictability.
Develop data-supported recommendations for corrective actions, investment decisions, process improvements, and delivery-risk mitigation.
Communicate product and portfolio status, risks, opportunities, and decisions clearly to Government stakeholders and organizational leadership.
Identify root causes of recurring delivery, requirements, adoption, and dependency challenges and recommend practical improvements.
At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in product management, business architecture, business analysis, systems analysis, program management, acquisition systems, procurement systems, or enterprise application delivery.
At least five years of experience supporting federal acquisition, contract writing, procurement, financial management, procure-to-pay, or related business systems.
Demonstrated experience leading requirements elicitation, backlog refinement, prioritization, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement for complex enterprise systems.
Experience translating business, mission, policy, and user needs into clearly defined epics, features, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
Understanding of Agile or hybrid Agile delivery methods, including backlog management, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning, and iterative delivery.
Experience analyzing cross-system business processes, data flows, integrations, dependencies, and operational impacts.
Ability to develop and present decision briefs, product roadmaps, stakeholder communications, performance measures, and actionable recommendations.
Strong facilitation, written communication, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively with Government stakeholders, functional users, technical teams, program leadership, and external partners in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
Ability to satisfy applicable Government background investigation, suitability, and security requirements.
Preferred: Direct experience with federal Contract Writing Systems, procurement platforms, Procure-to-Pay environments, acquisition lifecycle management tools, or financial-management integrations.
Preferred: Familiarity with CON-IT, ACWS, ECWM, PIEE, or comparable federal acquisition and procurement platforms.
Preferred: Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Product Architect, Business Architect, Lead Business Analyst, or Functional Lead for an enterprise application portfolio.
Preferred: Knowledge of federal acquisition regulations, contracting workflows, purchase-request processes, procurement policy, contract administration, invoice processing, financial-system interfaces, or related acquisition business processes.
Preferred: Experience supporting modernization, cloud migration, enterprise integration, data exchange, cybersecurity, or technical-debt reduction initiatives.
Preferred: Experience developing portfolio performance measures, dashboards, delivery metrics, and data-driven improvement recommendations.
Preferred: Familiarity with product and Agile management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, ServiceNow, or comparable platforms.
Preferred: Experience supporting change management, user training, communications planning, and adoption initiatives for enterprise system deployments.
Education: A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Public Administration, Acquisition Management, or a related discipline is required. Additional relevant professional experience may be substituted for a degree.
Citizenship and clearance: U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Secret clearance; an active clearance is highly preferred.
Salary: Estimated annual salary range of $180,000–$210,000. Compensation depends on experience, education, certifications, skills, market conditions, geographic pay differentials, and applicable business and contract considerations. The disclosed range does not include geographic adjustments, and offers are not typically made at the top of the range.
Work arrangement: Remote, work-from-home position in the United States.
Healthcare: Group medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Insurance and financial protection: Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
Savings and retirement: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a 401(k) plan with company matching.
Time off: Paid time off, bonus leave, and 11 paid federal holidays.
Family support: Parental leave.
Professional development: Tuition and training reimbursement, company-funded certification opportunities, and access to career mentors.
Additional perks: Employee referral bonus program and well-being programs.
Career growth: Opportunities to develop professionally through ongoing learning, mentoring, and a supportive, open-door work environment.
