Integrated Product Team; IPT Lead

Description

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from Denver Aurora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep‑technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations.

Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.

The ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs including providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers
• Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents
• Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks
• Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments

This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of multi‑disciplined engineers and analysts in program‑specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
• Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
• Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end‑customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
• Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
• Identify, remove, and/or elevate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
• Participate in intelligence or cross‑team product production meetings as required
• Achieve detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
• Identify gaps and prioritize recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision‑making
• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
• Develop and maintain in‑depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter‑space threats
• Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments
• Frequently interact with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders
• Develop productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics or mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields.

• In‑depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems
• Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts
• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph. US Citizenship is required
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high…