Lead Ground Systems Engineer; ESS-SR

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized "Great Place To Work", has exciting opportunities providing Engineering solutions for innovative new-entrant space companies, as well as established space systems manufacturers, commercial space system operators and service providers, and other industry stakeholders including investors.

At Stellar Solutions, we offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management and strategic planning. We are a leading service and expertise provider for high-tech commercial ventures, spanning communications, earth observation and remote sensing systems and data products, to the infrastructures that support earth orbiting and beyond earth orbit businesses.

Stellar Solutions has an opportunity for a Senior Ground Systems Engineer to lead, guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Aurora, CO.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead and oversee technical efforts of four systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems
• Develop technical requirements for SIGINT and GEOINT ground processing system updates, monitor and supervise scheduling of system deliveries, system testing and documentation of discrepancies
• 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 opportunity 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

Required:

• US Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• 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
• Demonstrated leadership success on 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, Dev Ops, 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…