Senior Ground Systems Lead for SIGINT/GEOINT Ops

Stellar Solutions

Aurora (CO)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 175,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Stellar Solutions in Aurora, CO is seeking a Senior Ground Systems Engineer to lead and guide enterprise-wide ground systems engineering for SIGINT, GEOINT, and operations support. You will oversee a small team, develop requirements, and manage deliveries, testing, and documentation while coordinating with government leadership and other contractors.

The ideal candidate holds US Citizenship, an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, and a STEM degree with substantial experience across lifecycle

Qualifications

US Citizenship is required
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Bachelor's degree in STEM with 14+ years experience; Master's in STEM with 12+ years experience; PhD or JD in STEM and nine (9) years or more experience
Demonstrated leadership on complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations
In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance
Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions
Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission
CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies
Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics-drives tasks to closure
Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Responsibilities

Lead and oversee technical efforts of four systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems
Develop technical requirements for SIGINT and GEOINT ground processing system updates, monitor and supervise scheduling of system deliveries, system testing and documentation of discrepancies
Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team's tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency
Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities
Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government - across the enterprise
Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership