Tracking Architecture Performance Department Director

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a diverse and dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.  

The Director of the Tracking Architecture Performance Department (TAPD) within the Integrated Performance Subdivision (IPS) leads an organization to conduct, direct and integrate model-based analyses, empowering teams and staff to deliver differentiated and context-informed insights. The department supports our customers in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) of missile defense and space domain awareness architectures, and serves as a center of excellence for the development and assessment of tracking methods that fuse data from diverse sources.   

Work Model: 

This full-time position requires 100% onsite work in El Segundo CA, Colorado Springs, CO, or Huntsville, AL. 

What You’ll Be Doing   

• Guiding the development of MS&A capabilities and products to support decision making for missile defense and space domain awareness architectures.  

• Fostering the creation of a center of excellence for the development and assessment of tracking methods that fuse data from diverse sources. 

• Building and maintaining a strong base of customers and collaborators for the department through effective working relationships with colleagues, government customers, and contractor teammates. 

• Creating an organizational culture that promotes innovation, diversity, and inclusion, developing and maintaining relationships with peer organizations, creating and leading diverse teams of multi-discipline analysts 

• Coordinating complex technical tasks among customers, managing resources to efficiently staff and execute projects, and ensuring quality and accuracy of work products 

• Recruiting, on-boarding, and developing staff through formal and informal performance management, evaluation, mentoring, and coaching across a national organization 

• Monitoring, directing, and improving the organization’s processes, functions, compliance, and safety awareness 

• Working closely with the broader subdivision leadership team to cultivate an effective, efficient, and cohesive national organization  

What You Need to be a Successful Director, Tracking Architecture Performance Department   

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related discipline 

• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience leading studies and analysis teams, coordinating complex technical tasks among team members, and translating customer needs into viable instructions for analysts 

• Demonstrated strength in modeling, simulation, and analysis of space systems and their dependencies 

• Experience in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving technical and/or personnel issues. 

• Experience with staff development and mentoring 

• Ability to flex communication styles for productive interactions with staff, collaborators, and customers 

• Willing to travel to meet the needs of the organization and customers, approximately 10-25% of the time 

• This position requires a current and active TS/SCI clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.   

How You Can Stand Out   

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:  

• Current, active SAP clearance 

• Leadership experience in a customer-facing organization 

• Knowledge of government space mission architectures and mission-effects chains involving multi-target tracking architectures 

• Demonstrated strength in architecture and sensor-level simulations and evaluation, mission performance assessments with emphasis in multi-target tracking, detection, and estimation 

• Experience collaborating in major MS&A initiatives across other FFRDCs, government entities, UARCs, SETAs and/or industry 

• Financial and business acumen through program / business unit leadership 

• Master’s or PhD degree in related STEM discipline