Senior Vice President, Mission and Technology

Location: Northern Virginia (Reston and Rosslyn offices)
Security Clearance: Top Secret required
Portfolio Size: Approximately $150 million

Position Summary:

Aleut Federal is seeking an accomplished and growth-oriented Senior Vice President to lead its approximately $150 million Mission and Technology portfolio. This executive will have full responsibility for the portfolio’s strategic direction, operational performance, organic growth, and new-business expansion.

The Senior Vice President will lead a diverse organization delivering information technology, digital transformation, cybersecurity, engineering, and mission-support solutions to federal customers. The successful candidate will bring deep knowledge of the federal technology market, a strong record of leading complex organizations, and demonstrated success growing profitable government-contracting businesses.

This position is based in Northern Virginia, with offices in Reston and Rosslyn, and requires regular engagement with customers, industry partners, employees, and other Aleut Federal leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Leadership and Strategy

• Establish and execute the strategic vision for Aleut Federal’s Mission and Technology portfolio.
• Serve as a member of Aleut Federal’s senior leadership team and contribute to enterprise-wide strategy, investment decisions, and organizational priorities.
• Translate corporate objectives into actionable portfolio plans, performance targets, and growth initiatives.
• Maintain a strong understanding of federal technology priorities, acquisition trends, mission requirements, and competitive dynamics.
• Identify emerging technologies, capabilities, and market opportunities that strengthen Aleut Federal’s value to its customers.

Financial and Operational Performance

• Maintain full profit-and-loss responsibility for an approximately $150 million portfolio.
• Deliver revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and growth commitments while ensuring sound financial and operational controls.
• Oversee program execution, customer satisfaction, contract performance, workforce planning, and risk management.
• Establish clear performance expectations and hold business and program leaders accountable for results.
• Ensure programs are appropriately staffed, effectively managed, and executed in accordance with contractual, regulatory, security, and quality requirements.
• Work closely with corporate functional leaders in finance, contracts, human resources, legal, compliance, security, information technology, and business development.

Growth and Business Development

• Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy encompassing organic expansion, recompetes, new contract awards, strategic partnerships, and adjacent-market opportunities.
• Build and maintain a qualified, achievable pipeline aligned with the portfolio’s capabilities and Aleut Federal’s long-term objectives.
• Provide executive leadership for capture efforts, solution development, pricing strategies, teaming arrangements, and major proposals.
• Cultivate enduring relationships with federal customers, industry partners, and key stakeholders.
• Expand the portfolio’s presence across the Department of Defense and, where appropriate, federal civilian agencies.
• Leverage the competitive advantages available to Alaska Native Corporation businesses while building sustainable, full-and-open market capabilities.
• Evaluate potential capability investments, strategic hires, contract vehicles, partnerships, and acquisitions that support portfolio growth.

Customer and Market Engagement

• Serve as a senior executive representative of Aleut Federal with federal customers, industry partners, and other external stakeholders.
• Develop a detailed understanding of customer missions, challenges, priorities, and acquisition strategies.
• Strengthen Aleut Federal’s reputation as a trusted, agile, and mission-focused technology partner.
• Anticipate changes in customer requirements and position the portfolio to respond with differentiated, practical solutions.
• Maintain an active presence in the federal contracting and technology communities.

Organizational and Talent Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing executive and management team.
• Attract and retain exceptional leaders, technical professionals, program managers, and growth personnel.
• Establish a culture of accountability, collaboration, ethical conduct, innovation, and customer service.
• Develop succession plans and strengthen the organization’s leadership pipeline.
• Communicate priorities clearly and create alignment across geographically dispersed teams and business units.
• Foster an inclusive workplace that reflects Aleut Federal’s values and commitment to its people, customers, and Alaska Native shareholders.

Required Qualifications

• At least 15 years (required) to 20 years (preferred) of progressively responsible experience leading and growing information technology, engineering, mission-support, or related technology portfolios serving the federal government.
• Significant executive-level experience with profit-and-loss responsibility for a federal government contracting business or major business unit.
• Demonstrated success managing a portfolio of comparable scale and complexity.
• Proven record of achieving profitable organic growth and winning significant federal contracts.
• Substantial experience supporting Department of Defense customers.
• Strong understanding of federal acquisition practices, contract vehicles, competitive procurements, capture management, proposal development, and contract execution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex, and geographically dispersed organizations.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including experience with forecasting, budgeting, indirect-cost management, investment planning, and risk management.
• Established relationships and credibility within the federal technology and government-contracting communities.
• Exceptional executive communication, negotiation, decision-making, and relationship-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering, national security, or a related field.
• Current Top Secret security clearance, with the ability to possess and maintain the clearance throughout employment.
• Ability to work regularly from Aleut Federal’s Reston and Rosslyn offices and travel as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a portfolio serving both Department of Defense and federal civilian customers.
• Experience growing a business within the Alaska Native Corporation federal marketplace.
• Understanding of the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program and the federal contracting authorities and market strategies applicable to Alaska Native Corporations.
• Experience transitioning an organization from reliance on direct-award opportunities toward sustained competition in the full-and-open federal market.
• Executive experience in one or more areas such as digital modernization, cloud services, cybersecurity, data analytics, artificial intelligence, enterprise IT, software development, systems engineering, or mission operations.
• Experience evaluating or integrating acquisitions, joint ventures, mentor-protégé relationships, or other strategic partnerships.
• Master’s degree in business, technology, engineering, national security, or a related discipline.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will be:

• A strategic thinker who can convert market insight into disciplined action.
• A growth executive who personally engages in customer development, capture, and major pursuits.
• An accountable operator who understands that growth and execution are inseparable.
• A collaborative enterprise leader who works effectively across business and corporate functions.
• A credible, mission-focused representative with senior federal customers.
• A decisive and transparent leader who develops people, addresses challenges directly, and consistently delivers results.

Aleut Federal offers the opportunity to lead a substantial and strategically important portfolio while advancing missions of national significance and creating long-term value for Aleut shareholders.

Salary: $325K

Aleut offers the following benefits to eligible employees:

• Health insurance
• Dental/Vision insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Life insurance
• 401k and match

At Aleut, our culture thrives on diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. By integrating diverse perspectives, we open up new possibilities, foster innovation, and fully harness our team's potential. We are committed to creating an environment where every employee feels valued, included, and inspired to grow and find purpose. Join us and be part of a culture that celebrates differences and belonging for everyone, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or past or present military service. We welcome everyone as they are!

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