Job Title: Enterprise Link-16 Mission System Architect/Engineer

Job Location: Scottsdale AZ 85257

Onsite Requirements:

• Link 16 experience
• Systems Engineering
• Active security clearance
  

Job Description:

• A Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field and is required plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree in engineering or a related technical field plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills
• Recognized as an expert in your field
• Ability to ability to anticipate technology, process, and skill needs

What Sets You Apart:

• Easily and effectively communicate technical topics to a diverse audience
• Ability to create an environment where the impact of technology on the business is clearly recognized
• Exceptional aptitude for applying or developing highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Consistent high performer delivering outstanding results
• A succession candidate
• Extensive ability to oversee multiple functions
• Strategic / long term thinker in order to position Client for success in a changing environment
• Extensive ability to understand tactical components of the organization while assessing the strategic longer terms needs of the company
• Innovative thinker who embraces change as opportunity
• Works beyond the bounds of their own organization to collaborate and influence others
• Erroneous decisions will result in significant non-compliance, risk to employees and /or the environments within which the client operates
• The reputation of the client can be impacted
• Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations, without damage to the relationship
• Extensive communication skills for interaction with executive leadership on items of significant importance (remediation, risk mgt., regulatory compliance, etc.)
• Extensive ability to present in clear and certain terms
• Subject matter expert in multiple fields
• Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may also have company-wide effect

Preferred Experience:

• Tactical data network mission system architectures in support of the SDA mission experience, highly preferred
• Satellite communications knowledge
• Ground to Satellite communication knowledge
• Ground operations experience
• Performs requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, detail trade studies, systems integration and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of subsystem or system elements under supervision of the lead systems engineer
• Performs technical planning, cost and risk analyses, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for subsystems and system elements
• Performs customer requirements analysis, develops system requirements and defines allocations to lower levels (elements and components)
• Performs detailed technical analyses for a subsystem or system elements
• Develops and evaluates systems, networks and information systems to ensure designs meet applicable governmental security specifications
• May provide system accreditation/certification evaluation and test support to ensure all technical security features (e.g., identification, authentication, access control, labeling, and auditing) of the system are considered and function properly
• May develop system security documentation on both new and fielded information systems
• Participates in Modeling and Simulation
• Researches and analyzes data, such as vendor products, COTS components, GFE/CFE, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application
• Supports the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle
• May provide leadership and/or direction to lower level employees
• Independently determines proposed approach to solutions
• Contributes to the completion of major programs and projects
• Plans and executes project tasks for activities described above
• Creative, innovative responsibilities requiring advanced decision-making skills
• Defines processes for technical platforms, system specifications, input/output and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• Designs a complete and complex framework, system or product
• Identifies, analyzes and resolves system design weaknesses
• Regular contact with senior levels of internal working groups
• Contact with Deputy Program Managers Engineering (DPME) and other professionals within the Engineering department and with project teams across the company
• Coordinating external interfaces and ICDs
• Multi-level security domain expertise (and cross-domain)
• Quickly (with a more agile light-weight approach) decomposing requirements to a level that can avoid requirements bloat (and communicate/track impacts)
• People that may have a working relationship with related people from Iridium, SDA, Northrup, York, and Lockheed
• System-level networking person that can face off with the GFE WAN provider and coordinate detailed network design
• Someone that can understand what is in scope and what is out of scope and manage that complexity
• People with agile program experience

**This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.

• Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position**