Technical Director

ENSCO, Inc.; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ENSCO Inc. seeks a Technical Director to partner with Government leaders on a critical Satellite Control (TT&C) capability. This role aligns mission outcomes with portfolio strategy, architecture, cybersecurity, and transition plans, advancing from concept to executable acquisition actions.

Emphasis on defining evidence, reducing risk, and maintaining options in a dynamic defense environment. The leader will integrate operational urgency with acquisition pathways, production scalability, and

Responsibilities

• Convert mission urgency into acquisition action.
• Set the acquisition strategy across portfolio position, pathway, contracting options, and fielding increments.
• Drive portfolio trade-space decisions across mission Effect, performance, cost, schedule, and interoperability.
• Design rapid learning campaigns with focused experiments, evidence, exit criteria, and risk reduction.
• Build modular architectures with open interfaces, data rights, and replaceable increments to preserve options.

Job description

For more than 50 years, ENSCO has been providing leading-edge engineering, science and advanced technology solutions to governments and private industries worldwide.

ENSCO prides itself in creating and applying advanced technologies for mission success. We provide systems engineering, integration, and advanced technology services to transform the future safety, security, and resiliency of critical missions on the ground, in the air, in space, and in the information systems that connect these domains.

ENSCO Inc. is a diverse engineering and technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions supporting mission success, safety, and security for government and commercial customers worldwide.

We are seeking a Technical Director to work directly with the Government acquisition and mission leaders responsible for a critical Satellite Control (Telemetry, Tracking, and Command - TT&C) capability. This role operates before prototype commitment and turns operational urgency into a clear path to buy, prove, integrate, and field capability.

This leader will connect mission outcomes, portfolio trade space, commercial and industrial options, mission architecture, cybersecurity, transition, and production scalability. The focus is decision velocity: define the smallest body of evidence needed for each decision, expose risk early, keep multiple options viable, and move the Government from concept to executable acquisition action. Government decision owners retain all formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• Convert mission urgency into acquisition action. Define the operational outcomes, time-to-field targets, production scale targets, critical constraints, and decision evidence needed before the Government commits resources to a prototype.
• Set the acquisition strategy. Lead development of the Government-owned strategy across portfolio position, acquisition pathway, competitive structure, contracting options, prototype sequencing, funding decision points, fielding increments, and transition.
• Drive portfolio trade-space decisions. Frame clear choices across mission effect, performance, cost, schedule, integration complexity, cybersecurity, interoperability, time-to-field, and production scalability so leaders can act quickly.
• Design rapid learning campaigns. Define focused experiments, demonstrations, digital evidence, knowledge points, exit criteria, and off-ramps that expose weak assumptions early and prevent premature commitment.
• Build for modularity and competition. Establish modular open architecture principles, open interfaces, data-rights objectives, integration seams, and replaceable capability increments that preserve options and reduce vendor lock-in.
• Advance commercial-first options. Evaluate commercial products, Commercial Solutions Openings, Other Transaction pathways, non-traditional suppliers, direct-to-supplier opportunities, dual-use solutions, and co