Senior Cost Engineer​/Financial Data Integration Lead

Capstone Analytic is seeking a Senior Cost Engineer / Financial Data Integration Lead to support complex federal health IT portfolio management, financial planning, cost analysis, acquisition support, and executive decision-making. This role is designed for a senior financial and analytical professional who can connect budget data, cost estimates, financial controls, execution data, contract data, reporting structures, and portfolio performance information into a seamless decision-support environment.

This is not a traditional cost estimator role. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, improving, and maintaining the financial data architecture needed to support portfolio management, investment analysis, performance monitoring, and leadership decision-making. The role will ensure that financial data is accurate, traceable, well-structured, easy to use, and aligned across multiple sources so that portfolio strategy does not fail because of poor data quality, inconsistent reporting, disconnected tools, or lack of financial visibility.

The ideal candidate will bring experience in cost engineering, financial systems, budget analysis, cost analysis, financial reporting, data integration, and federal program execution. This person should be able to operate across finance, acquisition, program management, data analytics, and portfolio strategy. Over time, as the organization’s tools, processes, and reporting environment mature, this role may also support or lead cost estimation activities, cost model development, and lifecycle cost analysis.

Lead financial data integration efforts across budget, cost estimates, financial controls, execution data, contract data, spend plans, reporting tools, and portfolio performance measures.

Design and maintain financial data structures that support portfolio management, investment analysis, executive reporting, and performance monitoring.

Develop integrated financial reporting processes that connect cost, budget, acquisition, contract, schedule, performance, and execution information.

Identify and resolve financial data integrity issues, including inconsistent data definitions, missing data, duplicate reporting, misaligned funding structures, inaccurate mappings, and reconciliation gaps.

Create repeatable processes for collecting, validating, reconciling, and reporting financial data across multiple systems and stakeholder groups.

Support portfolio leaders by ensuring financial data is structured in a way that enables analysis of trends, risks, cost drivers, funding gaps, execution issues, and cross-capability insights.

Develop and maintain financial dashboards, reporting templates, data dictionaries, mapping tables, reconciliation tools, and executive reporting products.

Partner with FP&A managers, cost estimators, data analysts, operations research analysts, acquisition professionals, financial managers, and program stakeholders to align financial data and reporting requirements.

Support the integration of cost estimate outputs into broader portfolio management, affordability analysis, investment planning, roadmap development, and performance monitoring processes.

Analyze budget, cost, execution, contract, and financial control data to identify patterns, anomalies, risks, and opportunities for improved decision-making.

Develop financial controls and reporting approaches that improve transparency, traceability, and confidence in portfolio-level analysis.

Ensure that financial data products are usable by senior leaders, portfolio managers, analysts, and program stakeholders.

Support the development of common financial reporting standards, naming conventions, data definitions, coding structures, and governance practices.

Help leadership understand the relationship between planned costs, estimated costs, obligated funding, actual execution, contract structures, and future resource needs.

Configure tools and analytical products that reduce manual reporting burden, improve consistency, and make recurring portfolio reviews more efficient.

Support financial scenario analysis, affordability assessment, investment tradeoff analysis, and long-range planning.

Help identify where current financial reporting processes are insufficient to support strategic portfolio management and recommend practical improvements.

Support cost estimation activities as needed, including cost model development, lifecycle cost analysis, cost data…