What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Ground Systems Engineer position at XMSTART?
XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time Lead Ground Systems Engineer to our team, in Chantilly, VA. This position is 100% Onsite.
Responsibilities:
- Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services
- Lead, guide, and oversee technical efforts of six systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems.
- Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team’s tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.
- Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunities to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency.
- Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities.
- Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government – across the enterprise.
- Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years experience with demonstrated leadership success on a variety of complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations.
- In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance.
- Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions.
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
- CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
- Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies.
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics—drives tasks to closure.
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project).
Desired/Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Digital Engineering (DE)/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools.
- Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator
- SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications
Education:
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and 14 years or more experience
- Master’s in STEM field and 12 years or more experience; PhD or JD in STEM and nine (9) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement
Security Clearance Requirements:
- Must be a US Citizen and have an Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
