Sensor Integration Technical Lead

Location:

Springfield or Chantilly, VA

Security Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph required

The Sensor Integration Technical Lead provides technical leadership and guidance to a Product Development Team supporting complex mission and sensor integration efforts. This role serves as a key technical advisor to program leadership and customers, ensuring development activities meet program requirements, mission partner needs, and established development milestones.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of 15+ technical professionals, supporting execution of product development and sensor integration activities
• Advise customer leadership on technical decisions, development priorities, and integration approaches to support achievement of program requirements and mission objectives
• Provide technical support to program risk management, identifying technical risks, assessing potential impacts, and supporting mitigation strategies
• Support requirements coordination and updates, including management and execution of Request for Change (RFC) processes
• Provide technical support for mission initialization and system integration activities.
• Coordinate with mission partners and stakeholders to ensure technical development activities remain aligned with mission requirements and program milestones
• Assess and communicate mission readiness to customer leadership, providing technical insight into the system’s ability to support operational mission objectives.
• Support integration of the capability as part of a Major Systems Acquisition, ensuring alignment and interoperability with National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) systems
• Collaborate with program, engineering, mission partner, and customer teams to resolve technical issues and maintain progress toward integration and development milestones.
• Provide technical briefings and recommendations to senior customer and program leadership regarding integration status, risks, requirements, and mission readiness

• STEM Degree
• 12 to 18 years of relevant experience
• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including:
  DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures
• Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.
• INCOSE Certified Systems engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
  • ACSM
  • ASCE
  • ASPRS
  • OGC
  • SAREM
  • USGIF
• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

• Target Salary Range: $130,000 to $170,000. The salary range listed represents the anticipated compensation for this position. Actual compensation will be determined based on the selected candidate's experience,…