Senior Mission Operations Team Lead

Overview

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness.

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Program Description

The FALSTAFF contract has just begun its 2nd year of a 7‑year contract. The program provides SETA (Systems Engineering Technical Advisor) and SE&I (Systems Engineering & Integration) services to an IC customer with a focus on assured space communications and supporting IT infrastructure. This is primarily broken into three major support functions: systems engineering, capability acquisition, and mission operations. Systems engineering support focuses on the end‑to‑end processes for managing programs, including readiness, configuration management, integrated master schedule, systems analysis, future studies and innovations.

Acquisition support is focused on helping government COTRs in all aspects of managing development contracts to deliver new or upgraded capabilities that meet requirements. Mission operations involves supporting the customer staff charged with leading the 24x7 daily operations, managing the integration of new capabilities into operations, and facilitating anomaly response teams when issues arise.

Specific Opportunity Description

This position is for the Mission Operations Team Lead role and is responsible for leading FALSTAFF's technical support to the customer's mission operations staff. The role will lead a dedicated team of SETA staff focused on all aspects of operations including supporting normal day‑to‑day activities and ongoing projects, bringing in new capabilities and successfully integrating them into operations, and facilitating response to anomalous activities and return to operations—everything in between.

Other duties will include:

• Maintain subject matter expert (SME) level knowledge of the operations segment architecture, interfaces, and capabilities.
• Primary interface between FALSTAFF team and other development contracts supporting the mission.
• Maintain awareness of user needs, conops and requirements.
• Lead SETA MO team collaboration, task management, prioritization, and assignments.
• Lead SETA collaboration across the FALSTAFF contract with mission operations focus.
• Facilitate MO SETA weekly team meetings to review project status and support needs.
• Lead MO feature planning and development for periodic build prioritization planning functions.
• Provide draft recommendation briefings on any number of topics in support of the customer.
• Create and/or provide input to the weekly activity report.
• Provide SME level training to new personnel.
• Support customer team in any contract management tasks.
• Guide team members through all parts of the systems engineering “vee” with a focus on Con Ops development in the beginning and integration, testing, transition to operations, and operations support.

This position is based in Springfield, VA.

Required:

• Relevant
  
  Experience:
  
  12 to 15 years with BS, 10 to 13 years with MS, 10+ years with PhD.
• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• Technical BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical degree. Five years of relevant experience in supporting mission operations, systems engineering, or software development/acquisition programs can be substituted for the degree requirement.
• Five years of mission operations support.
• Technical team leadership experience.
• The ability to work well within a team of engineers.
• Demonstrated success in working with government customers.

Desired:

• Five to ten years of experience supporting operations for a space communications mission.
• BS in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Prior experience as a SETA with FALSTAFF IC agency customer working acquisition support for a system development.
• Prior experience with ground software planning and scheduling RF‑based satellite communications systems.
• Good understanding of RF communications basics.
• Experience working with Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Distribution (TCPED) systems.
• Experience with IC operations networks, including terrestrial and space‑based communications networks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure or transitioning capabilities into the cloud.

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.