Director, Space Systems Architecture & Solutions

CesiumAstro, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 218,000 - 266,000; Full time

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Job summary

CesiumAstro, Inc. in Denver, CO seeks a Director of Solutions/Conceptual Design to lead the team delivering end-to-end technical solutions for new opportunities.

You will coordinate with Product, BD, customers, and Engineering to translate mission needs into complete system architectures and ensure seamless handoff to execution. The role requires senior leadership, advanced expertise across communications domains, and a track record in pursuing opportunities with credible, technically

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems/Aerospace/Telecommunications engineering with 11–15 years in related fields.
• Master's degree with 9–12 years of related experience.
• PhD with 7–10 years of related experience in communication systems or mission systems.
• 5+ years of progressive technical leadership or management in system architecture or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and end-to-end system architectures.
• Advanced technical expertise in at least one domain: RF/microwave, antennas, DSP, FPGA, or related.
• Experience leading technical solutions for customer pursuits, proposals, or new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Communication Systems Architects responsible for defining complete technical solutions for customer opportunities and strategic pursuits.
• Ensure each pursuit has a clearly identified technical architect accountable for the end‑to‑end solution from customer need and CONOPS through architecture, requirements, proposal, and transition to execution.
• Partner with customers and Business Development to understand mission objectives, operational needs, CONOPS, performance requirements, and constraints and translate them into differentiated system solutions.
• Lead and review architecture-level trades across antennas, RF, digital processing, communications algorithms, firmware, software, networking, and system interfaces to optimize overall mission performance.
• Partner with Business Development and Product leadership to assess opportunities, support pursue/no-pursue decisions, identify technical discriminators, and establish the technical strategy required to win.
• Ensure proposed architectures, requirements, technical approaches, performance analyses, risks, assumptions, and development strategies form a credible and compelling technical solution.
• Drive development of system requirements, interfaces, performance allocations, CONOPS, architecture definitions, verification approaches, and key analyses necessary to establish a technically sound baseline.
• Identify recurring customer needs and architectural capabilities that should influence product roadmaps, technology investments, and future product development. Drive reuse of existing and in-development products where they provide the best system solution.
• Ensure architectures appropriately balance performance and differentiation with technical maturity, cost, schedule, risk, manufacturability, and the company’s ability to execute.
• Work closely with Product Development & Assurance to translate technical architectures into executable program plans, including scope, requirements, development activities, Make/Buy decisions, risks, assumptions, cost, and schedule.
• Ensure technical solutions are transitioned cleanly from pursuit into the engineering and program execution organizations with clear requirements, architecture, interfaces, key trades, risks, assumptions, and customer commitments.
• Establish architecture standards, technical review practices, analysis methods, and decision frameworks that drive consistency and technical excellence across pursuits.
• Mentor architects and senior technical leaders to develop both deep technical expertise and the system-level breadth, customer engagement skills, and business judgment required to own complete solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Communication systems

Customer engagements

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems/Aerospace/Telecommunications engineering

Master's degree in a related field

PhD in a related field

Job description

CesiumAstro, Inc. in Denver, CO seeks a Director of Solutions/Conceptual Design to lead the team delivering end-to-end technical solutions for new opportunities.

You will coordinate with Product, BD, customers, and Engineering to translate mission needs into complete system architectures and ensure seamless handoff to execution. The role requires senior leadership, advanced expertise across communications domains, and a track record in pursuing opportunities with credible, technically