Ground Systems Architecture Manager – Section Manager

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-enabled mission effects. 

Architecture Concepts (ArCon) Department provides expertise in architecture methods, processes, and tools to an extremely broad range of customers, including National Space Security (NSS) and other defense programs, NASA, NOAA, NNSA, DHS, and others.  ArCon staff participate in and lead architecture trade studies, architecture conceptualization studies, architecture modeling tasks, and program assessment analyses at multiple levels of complexity, ranging from prototype systems to full scale acquisition systems in the space, ground, communications, and network domains.  ArCon applies disciplined system architecting principles and leads cross-functional teams to provide impactful guidance to assist our customers in making key acquisition and operations decisions. 

Work Model 

This position will follow an in-person work model with a minimum of 4 days per week of onsite work required at one of Aerospace’s campuses in Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, or El Segundo, CA. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Conduct staff performance reviews and other personnel management functions such as managing team resources and needs, providing career development and mentoring, and recommending personnel staffing requests 

• Mentor section staff both in technical and career growth 

• Manage ArCon ground system architecture staff located in Chantilly, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; and El Segundo, CA working diverse and disparate problems 

• Be the department’s focal point for program office inquiries for current and future tasking involving ground system architecture 

• Pursue opportunities for additional, expanded, and new tasking for staff and identify appropriate personnel to perform the work 

• Lead and participate in system architecture studies of ground system concepts, to include multi-disciplinary engineering teams 

• Apply and develop disciplined system architecting methods, processes, and tools in a broad range of architecture-level assessment, modeling, analysis, and conceptual design activities 

• Use, develop, and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate architectural concepts and system conceptual designs for cost, schedule, performance, risk, resilience to disruptive events or threats, and other characteristics 

• Work with Aerospace program office, customer, and contractor personnel as a technical subject matter expert and project leader to elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies; build cross-disciplinary teams; scope, plan, and execute the study; and effectively communicate task status, methods, results, and recommendations in briefings and formal technical reports 

• Collaborate with other Aerospace personnel to marshal technical expertise in multiple technical disciplines and domains to enable concurrent engineering approaches to address complex problems 

What You Need To Be Successful 

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering discipline, science, or a related field 

• Minimum 8 years relevant experience, including experience in ground systems with a strong knowledge of systems engineering principles 

• Experience in system or enterprise architecting, systems engineering, concurrent engineering, concept design, or model-based systems engineering, through relevant work and/or graduate school experience 

• Experience organizing and leading cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute projects or studies 

• Strong people management, interpersonal, and networking skills 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present methods and results effectively in briefings, formal reports, and informal communications 

• Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects 

• Available to travel domestically 

• A current and active Top Secret/SCI security clearance issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.  

How You Can Stand Out 

• Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) from an accredited program in a relevant engineering discipline 

• Experience with ground system architecture conceptual design, analysis, and concurrent engineering techniques 

• Experience with communications and networking 

• Experience with data center operations 

• Hands-on experience with system modeling in the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) or Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) 

• Experience in hiring, managing, and mentoring staff 

• Experience with the Intelligence Community