CWS Portfolio Product Architect

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. Accountabilities - 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.