SIGINT Enterprise Integration Lead

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The National Systems Group serves as the technical advisor to the Intelligence Community and its mission partners involved in the collection and distribution of national and tactical intelligence, including electronics programs, advanced technologies, ground and communications, imagery programs, and systems engineering and launch.

Within the National Systems Group, the Systems Engineering & Launch Division (SELD) is seeking a motivated Senior Project Leader to lead Aerospace contributions to the Enterprise Portfolio Manager charged with the SIGINT Capability Area within the customer's Systems Engineering Directorate.  The SIGINT Enterprise Integration Lead (Senior Project Leader – Enterprise Systems Engineering) contributes to customer and Aerospace activities for end-to-end architecture, engineering, analysis and cross-enterprise integration for the customer SIGINT architecture.

Work Model

This is a full-time position based in Chantilly, Virginia, which requires 100% onsite work.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Providing senior leadership to the SIGINT Enterprise Portfolio Manager in key functional areas, including enterprise integration of mission systems, identification and mitigation of system/enterprise/joint risks, development and execution of system verification, validation, and test concepts, and assessment of system performance.
• Providing day-to-day situational awareness of issues and efforts across the SIGINT customer portfolio and offering advice and counsel as a trusted direct-support advisor to the designated customer lead.
• Assisting the customer to shape and enable the comprehensive SIGINT portfolio of effort underway in prioritization, planning, oversight and execution of advancement and capability development activities.
• Developing and delivering enterprise-level assessments against SIGINT activities and offering specific plans of action or mitigation against emerging issues directly to the SIGINT customer with a focus on end-to-end capability delivery:
  • Providing problem framing and execution oversight to analytic studies aligned to SIGINT activities;
  • Enabling the development and maturation of architectural options and recommendations to resolve the complex set of SIGINT challenges;
  • Supporting and managing enterprise engineering tasks necessary for aligned lifecycle oversight and readiness activities, capability adoption, and operational integration efforts.
• Collaborating across other SED customer portfolios with their respective Aerospace integration leads, as well as across the full Aerospace customer and technical matrix backplane, to provide broader awareness and synchronization of enterprise engineering, architecting, and analysis efforts.

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements - Senior Project Leader- Enterprise Systems Engineering:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, mathematics, or an appropriate technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience.
• Relevant technical, programmatic, and operational domain experience.
• Experience within multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments, including the ability to lead efforts and work across architectural, engineering, and analytic domains and across all phases of development, design, and system acquisition.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with senior customer leadership and successfully function within mixed teams comprised of senior government, FFRDC, and SETA personnel.
• Willing to travel occasionally to remote work locations or customer sites.
• This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph, 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:

• An advanced degree in an appropriate technical discipline.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering concepts, methods, and practices.
• Knowledge of Aerospace engineering reach-back capabilities and experience with identifying tasks and managing engineering reach-back support.

Leadership Competencies

Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee, regardless of level and role, can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace, our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders, we want individuals who:

• Operate Strategically
• Lead Change   
• Engage with Impact   
• Foster Innovation   
• Deliver Results  

Ways We Reward Our Employees

During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.

Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type.  A few highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
• Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
• Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
• 401(k) Plan — Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
• Flexible spending accounts
• Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
• Relocation assistance
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
• Education assistance programs
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

We are all unique, from various backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other—the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

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