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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 Mission Integration/Warfighter Support (MIWS) Capability Area within the customer’s Systems Engineering Directorate. The MIWS 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 of advancement and oversight activities aligned to improved multi-int capabilities and capacities for both Intelligence Community and Department of Defense needs and expectations.
Work Model
This is a full-time position based in Chantilly, Virginia, which requires 100% onsite work.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Providing day-to-day situational awareness of issues and efforts across the MIWS customer portfolio and offering advice and counsel as a trusted direct-support advisor to that designated customer lead.
- Assisting the customer to shape and enable this comprehensive portfolio of effort underway in prioritization, planning, oversight and execution of advancement and capability development activities.
- Developing and delivering enterprise-level assessments against MIWS activities and offering specific plans of action or mitigation against emerging issues directly to the MIWS customer
- Lead Aerospace’s end-to-end capability delivery:
- Provide problem framing and execution oversight to analytic studies aligned to MIWS emerging questions or efforts;
- Enable the development and maturation of architectural options and recommendations to resolve MIWS complex set of challenges;
- Develop and manage the enterprise engineering tasks necessary to for aligned lifecycle oversight and readiness activities, capability adoption and operational integration efforts.
- Lead the MIWS collaboration across other SED customer portfolios, EPM, other EILs and office managers with their respective Aerospace integration leads to provide broader awareness and synchronization of policy, system engineering, architecting and analysis efforts within the Aerospace’s Systems Engineering Directorate.
- Identify and manage resource identification and execution of Aerospace personnel in support of MIWS; identify and lead the technical contributors focused on delivery impact.
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 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience.
- Relevant technical, programmatic, policy, strategy development and operational domain experience.
- Experience within multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments, including the ability to 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 work location or customer site/domestically/internationally] approx. 5% of the time.
- This position requires a current and active TS/SSBI/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.
- Experience across multiple customer offices and agencies spanning both the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.
- Knowledge of and experience with Aerospace engineering reach-back capabilities and experience with identifying tasks and managing engineering reach-back support.
- Understanding of and experience with military operations particularly in the command and control, intelligence and fires mission areas.
- Experience with Service or Agency acquisition and capability development processes, approaches, roles and responsibilities.
- Prior management and leadership experience.
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
- An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
We are all unique, from diverse 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
The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If you’re an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process, please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by email at ieo.mailbox@aero.org. You can also review Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
