Senior Systems Integrator – Space Mission Programs

Socket.dev; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

ENSCO Inc. is seeking a Systems Integrator to work directly with Government mission leaders and independently governed program teams delivering elements of a critical space mission capability.

This role defines mission-level integration objectives, surfaces dependencies, and accelerates convergence to deliver a usable warfighter capability with clear ownership and evidence-backed decisions. The position requires 10+ years of experience in complex defense, space, or cyber programs, exceptional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, software engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, or a closely related technical discipline, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated success integrating multiple complex defense, intelligence, space, cyber, communications, or mission programs that were governed, funded, and scheduled independently.
• Proven ability to build trust across organizations with different incentives and technical visions, influence senior leaders without formal authority, and secure durable commitments to a shared mission outcome.
• Experience reconciling competing architectures and baselines across mission threads, interfaces, data flows, standards, cybersecurity boundaries, test environments, operational workflows, and transition dependencies.
• Ability to create integrated milestone networks and dependency views, identify critical‑path conflicts, and recommend acceleration, resequencing, scope changes, deliberate pacing, or off‑ramps based on mission impact and evidence.
• Experience defining integration entry and exit criteria, interface agreements, ownership boundaries, configuration decisions, technical knowledge points, demonstrations, and operational‑acceptance evidence.
• Ability to frame executive trade space across mission effect, performance, cost, schedule, interoperability, cybersecurity, integration complexity, sustainment, time‑to‑field, and production scalability.
• Experience producing concise architecture options, interface and dependency views, decision papers, integration roadmaps, commitment registers, risk and opportunity views, and leader briefings that drive action.
• Demonstrated ability to lead high‑tempo technical forums, resolve conflict constructively, challenge unsupported assumptions, elevate decisions at the right time, and maintain accountability across organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the technical depth to engage subject‑matter experts and the clarity to explain consequences and recommendations to senior decision makers.
• Ability to work in a mission‑driven hybrid environment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and support periodic coordination or travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, as required.

Responsibilities

• Establish the shared mission outcome. Translate operational need into an integrated capability outcome, mission threads, measurable effects, time-to-field targets, decision points, and minimum evidence required for commitment.
• Converge competing architecture visions. Create a fact-based forum where participating programs can reconcile different end states, boundaries, interfaces, data flows, standards, and technical assumptions into decision-ready alternatives and a coherent mission architecture.
• Build trusted technical relationships. Earn credibility with program leaders, operators, acquisition teams, technical authorities, cybersecurity teams, test organizations, logistics teams, and industry partners; understand what each team must protect before asking it to change course.
• Influence without formal authority. Use mission impact, transparent evidence, and reciprocal commitments to align autonomous programs around shared decisions while preserving each organization’s accountability for its own execution.
• Synchronize portfolio timing. Map program milestones, critical paths, integration dependencies, funding decisions, contract actions, test resources, facilities, training, cybersecurity, production, and transition activities against a common mission delivery window.
• Recommend acceleration and deliberate pacing. Identify where a program should accelerate, resequence, narrow an increment, protect schedule margin, or deliberately slow activity so interfaces, evidence, resources, and operational users are ready at the same point in time.
• Create integration agreements. Define interface ownership, data exchanges, configuration boundaries, integration entry and exit criteria, decision rights, evidence owners, escalation paths, and commitment dates that teams can execute.
• Design rapid integration learning. Plan focused demonstrations, interface tests, mission-thread events, digital integration activities, and knowledge points that expose incompatibility and weak assumptions before expensive commitment.
• Preserve modularity and options. Advance open interfaces, modular increments, replaceable components, data-rights objectives, and competitive integration paths that reduce lock-in and allow individual programs to evolve without breaking the mission.
• Drive decision-ready trade space. Frame choices across mission effect, performance, interoperability, cost, schedule, cybersecurity, integration complexity, sustainment, time-to-field, and production scalability so leaders can act quickly.
• Maintain the integrated decision rhythm. Lead technical interchange meetings, architecture convergence sessions, dependency reviews, executive decision forums, and action follow-through; surface unresolved commitments before they become mission-level delays.
• Connect integration to fielding. Align operational acceptance, training, infrastructure, support equipment, continuity, sustainment, reconstitution, and transition activities so the combined capability is usable when delivered.

Skills

Communication

System integration

Stakeholder management

Cybersecurity awareness

Leadership

Education

Electrical/Aerospace/Software Eng degree

Job description

ENSCO Inc. is seeking a Systems Integrator to work directly with Government mission leaders and independently governed program teams delivering elements of a critical space mission capability.

This role defines mission-level integration objectives, surfaces dependencies, and accelerates convergence to deliver a usable warfighter capability with clear ownership and evidence-backed decisions. The position requires 10+ years of experience in complex defense, space, or cyber programs, exceptional