Space Systems Architecture Section Manager

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 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 spaceenabled mission effects.

Architecture Concepts ArCon Department Description

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 with a minimum of 4 days per week of onsite work at one of Aerospaces campuses in Chantilly VA or El Segundo CA.

What Youll Be Doing

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

• Mentor section staff both in technical and career growth

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

• Be the departments focal point for program office inquiries for current and future tasking involving space system architectures

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

• Lead and participate in architecture studies of space system concepts to include multidisciplinary engineering teams

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

• Use develop and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate space 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 crossdisciplinary 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

• Bachelors degree in relevant engineering discipline science or a related field

• Minimum 6 years relevant experience with a strong knowledge of systems engineering principles

• Experience in space system or enterprise architecting systems engineering concurrent engineering concept design or modelbased systems engineering through relevant work and/or graduate school experience

• Ability to organize and lead crossfunctional crossorganizational 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 timemanagement skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

• Available to traveldomestically

• 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 or projects

• Demonstrated experience organizing and leading crossfunctional crossorganizational teams to execute projects or studies

• Handson 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 Defense and Intelligence Community