Senior Space Mission Architect & Technical Lead

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Dulles, VA is seeking an experienced mission architect to lead technical efforts supporting space superiority missions. This role interfaces with customers, directs a technical team, and shapes feasibility for first-of-a-kind missions through architecture, CONOPs, and demonstrations.

You will work with business development, external customers, and subject-matter experts to drive mission design, hardware delivery, and risk reduction in a high-security

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other STEM related degree with 16 years of experience in a related engineering field such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace and/or operations
• 14 years with a Master's
• 12 years with a PhD
• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices
• Experience with developing and presenting briefing slides to senior leaders and executive level personnel
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within diverse teams
• Experience with specific customer community for the mission

Responsibilities

• Interface and drive engagement with customers and stakeholders.
• Manage the a technical team as a technical leader
• Direct developmental and analytical efforts to reduce risk, mature the system, ensure mission success, and grow the business area.
• Support the family of programs with system architecture establishment/evolution and CONOPs development.
• Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to an audience of non-subject matter experts with varying levels of domain experience
• Be self-directed and able to envision the end state of the product and take initiative to drive product development to closure
• Educate leads, customers, and engineers on mission capability, analysis, and CONOPS
• Performs system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign
• Support capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis
• Brief and lead technical meetings for senior leaders across the space community

Skills

Systems Engineering

Executive briefings

Customer interface

Team leadership

Space systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or STEM

16 years experience

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Dulles, VA is seeking an experienced mission architect to lead technical efforts supporting space superiority missions. This role interfaces with customers, directs a technical team, and shapes feasibility for first-of-a-kind missions through architecture, CONOPs, and demonstrations.

You will work with business development, external customers, and subject-matter experts to drive mission design, hardware delivery, and risk reduction in a high-security