Sr. Technical Director - TS/SCI

Parsons; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a highly experienced Technical Director to join our Electronic Warfare team. You will shape the directorate's technical strategy, align it with company goals, and build a roadmap from the current state to the future state.

You will lead multi-domain collaboration within Parsons' Defense & Intelligence portfolio and drive new business opportunities, while directing budgets and ensuring strong customer relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 10+ years in a technical field and 4+ years in management.
• Experience in operational or military cyber/EW/INT domains is a plus.
• Experience leading innovation and rapid development efforts in military contexts.

Responsibilities

• Create and update the electronic warfare technical strategy.
• Lead multi-domain collaboration across Parsons' Defense & Intelligence portfolio.
• Drive proposals with clear discriminators and responsive content.
• Engage with high-value customers and government leaders with compelling briefings.
• Oversee budgets and resource allocation for cost-effective delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

EW expertise

Cyber operations

Budget management

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD in EE/CS

Tools

SAP familiarity

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Technical Director to join our Electronic Warfare team!

Parsons' Electronic Directorate is focused on delivering cutting-edge offensive and defensive cyber, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and specialized communication and collection technologies to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Our purpose is to serve those who protect our nation enabling mission success across intelligence, cyber, and electronic warfare domains.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Creating and updating the Electronic Warfare Directorate's technical strategy
• Ensures strategy alignment with the Directorate and overall company objectives
• Documents the directorate's technical vision and compare it to the current state
• Develops a roadmap to transition from current state to future state
• Leads technical volumes of proposals, ensuring responsiveness and clear discriminators
• Supports Business Development and Capture activities by aligning contract pursuits with sector strategy
• Assists with customer engagements by developing briefings that highlight company differentiators
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends
• Identifies solutions, services, and best practices to keep the sector at the forefront of innovation.
• Fosters cross-business unit collaboration to drive partnerships and accelerate advancements.
• Engages high-value customers and operators
• Delivers compelling technical briefings and solution presentations to senior government leaders and mission operators.
• Leverages strong relationships to influence decision-making and strengthen customer trust.
• Builds and refines a high-performing technology organization
• Leads multi-domain collaboration across Parsons' Defense & Intelligence portfolio to solve complex mission challenges.
• Drives new business and on-contract growth while cultivating a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Manages technology budgets, allocating resources efficiently and cost-effectively.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and a minimum of 10+ years experience within a technical field or related industry and 4+ years experience in a managerial role
• Experience in operational or military environments in cyber, EW, or intelligence domains is a plus
• Experience initiating and executing innovation, experimentation, and advanced development efforts within the military
• Exposure to and broad understanding of SAP portfolios and associations with OUSW(R&E), SCO, DARPA, service labs, and program offices
• Experience of background in cyber, Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), space, fires, and distributed operations
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets especially relating to experimentation, advanced development, and rapid fielding
• Understanding of strategic, operational, and tactical operations and capabilities especially relating to complex kill chain development, National systems, and tactical fires
• Deep understanding of unmanned systems, loitering and launched effects, tactical and over-the-horizon communications, target development, navigation and timing, non-kinetic and kinetic effects, counter-UXS, counter-C5ISRT, and other related operational areas of focus
• Experience integrating with or directly support Special Operations, Space Operations, Air Operations, and large-scale Ground force operations
• Ability to manage groups of operators and engineers especially within rapid prototyping, experimentation, and rapid fielding environments
• Active TS/SCI is required

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
• Knowledge of SIGINT, Electronic Warfare (EW), Digital Signals Processing (DSP), Radio Frequency (RF), Space Systems Engineering, and algorithm development.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace.

Throughout the company, our people are