System End-to-End Architecture Capability Lead Sr Project Lead

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospaces strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs customers and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of spaceenabled mission effects.

The Architecture Concepts Department ArCon 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 crossfunctional teams to provide impactful guidance to assist our customers in making key acquisition and operations decisions.

Work Model:

This position will follow an inperson work model at one of Aerospaces campuses in Chantilly VA Colorado Springs CO or El Segundo CA.

What Youll Be Doing

• Direct complex technical activities organize multidisciplinary project teams and execute a variety of system endtoend architecture conceptualization assessment and modeling activities and provide decision support expertise to Aerospace program offices as a technical subject matter expert and project leader

• Steer and implement strategy in system endtoend architectures for the department and seek identify and pursue opportunities for additional expanded and new business and assist higher management in the evaluation and pursuit of new opportunities

• Lead efforts to identify and incorporate emerging technologies commercial capabilities interoperable solutions and industry best practices into system architectures for space ground and network capabilities

• Campaign to establish new partnerships with a wide range of departments across the Engineering and Technology Group and program offices serving as the subdivision focal point for leading highimpact system endtoend architecture design and evaluation trade studies analysis of alternatives programmatic assessments and investigating urgent technical problems.

• Expand scope of ArCon relationship with program offices and customer bases such as SSIO SWAC SSDP and the IC and leverage department staff and expertise from across ETG to solve complex customer problems.

• Facilitate outreach and education of ETG program offices customers and industry on Aerospace system endtoend architecture capabilities

• Initiate new program office relationships to collaboratively define new tasking utilizing system architecting problem framing principles to enable program offices to define the problem space create implementation plans and identify appropriate personnel to perform the work based on your knowledge of resources and expertise across the company

• Mentor early career and experienced staff serving as a role model and technical advisor to an exceptionally talented and highly motivated cadre of architects analysts and modelers to develop department capabilities and meet emerging demand for department expertise.

What you Need To Be Successful (Minimum Requirements for Sr. Project Lead Enterprise Systems Engineering)

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering science or a related technical field

• At least 10 years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience including multidisciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments with a strong command of systems engineering principles

• Leadership experience in system or enterprise architecting systems engineering concept design and/or modelbased systems engineering

• Demonstrated ability to identify problem space assess trade options and independently formulate courses of action

• Experience initiating and leading crossfunctional crossorganizational teams to plan and execute projects or studies

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

• Exceptional timemanagement skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projectsand schedule commitments

• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with employees customers acquisition program offices and contractors

• Exhibit exceptionally high level of innovation creativeness and initiative

• Available and willing to travel domestically and/or internationally approx. 510

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

How You Can Stand Out

• Advanced degree Masters or Ph.D. from an accredited program in a relevant engineering discipline

• Demonstrated initiative to innovate shape drive and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tasks projects or organizations

• Experience in training mentoring and inspiring staff

• Experience working in partnership with multiple Aerospace program offices and customers

• Strong interpersonal networks with Aerospace and customer organizations that can be leveraged to establish collaborations and obtain sponsorship for projects

• Experience in methods and processes for early life cycle systems engineering system architecting and US government system acquisition

• Experience with Intelligence Community systems engineering and programmatic processes methods tools and personnel

• Experience with endtoend space architectures at the system level inclusive of satellites constellations ground systems networks user terminals and external interfaces

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

• Experience with architecture modeling and/or descriptive system modeling for MBSE

• Experience with architecture frameworks such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework DoDAF or the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)