Director, Technical Services Division

Overview

Steely is a fast-growing, high-tech, mission-driven company based out of Reston, Virginia that prides itself on delivering technical and mission-related solutions that allow our customers to succeed in achieving their most challenging goals.

We are a close-knit team of highly motivated and skilled individuals that are focused on a commitment to facing the most complex and difficult efforts head-on with a balance of creativity and discipline, and an unwavering nerve.

Our Team embraces the concept that the sky's the limit. Regardless of where you are at in your career, our goal is to work with you to refine your skills, add to your technical tool belt, and aid you in your growth as a professional. We offergrowth opportunities such as leadership training, industry conferences, and mentorship from experienced, passionate individuals.

Candidates must an active and current TOP SECRET security clearance.

Steely LLC is seeking an accomplished technical and business leader to serve as the Director of our Technical Services Division. This position will lead a multidisciplinary team of radio frequency (RF) engineers, reverse engineers, electrical engineers, and other technical professionals supporting complex customer missions. The Director will also serve as a technical thought leader for Steely, anticipating how new and emerging technologies, capabilities, and engineering approaches can be applied to solve evolving mission challenges and create differentiated customer value.

The Director will be responsible for the division’s people, technical execution, customer relationships, business growth, and forward-looking technical direction. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable guiding engineers through complex technical challenges, engaging senior customers about future mission requirements, evaluating the mission relevance of emerging capabilities, and developing compelling technical solutions and proposals that lead to new business.

This is a hands-on leadership position. The Director will establish priorities, mentor technical personnel, ensure high-quality program execution, identify emerging customer needs, and translate those needs into practical technical solutions and executable growth opportunities. The Director will be expected to look beyond current requirements, identify technology and capability trends before they become mature customer demands, and help position Steely as a trusted technical advisor and innovator in the markets we serve.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of RF engineers, reverse engineers, electrical engineers, and supporting technical personnel
• Establish and communicate a clear, forward-looking technical vision, operating priorities, and performance expectations for the division, informed by customer mission needs and relevant technology trends
• Create an environment that promotes accountability, technical rigor, collaboration, innovation, and professional growth
• Guide employees through complex technical and programmatic challenges while allowing them the ownership necessary to develop as technical leaders
• Conduct workforce planning and identify the skills, certifications, tools, and staffing required to support current and future programs
• Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning

• Provide senior technical oversight for RF engineering, reverse engineering, electrical engineering, hardware exploitation, prototyping, testing, and related technical activities.
• Review technical approaches, system architectures, test strategies, and engineering deliverables.
• Ensure programs are executed in accordance with customer requirements, schedules, budgets, quality standards, and contractual commitments.
• Identify technical, schedule, cost, and operational risks early and lead the development of effective mitigation strategies.
• Promote disciplined engineering processes while preserving the agility required to solve emerging and unconventional customer problems.
• Continuously assess relevant technologies, tools, engineering practices,…