Lead Ground Systems Engineer

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.

Requirements

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