Signals Intelligence Officer Team Lead

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is seeking an experienced and cleared Signals Intelligence Officer (SIO) Team Lead in the Northern Virginia area. This position requires work in a secure, mission-focused operations environment. Rotating shift work may include nights, weekends, holidays, and surge support based on mission requirements. This position may require travel as determined by the Customer. Position Summary The SIO Team Lead leads a team of Signals Intelligence Officers executing SIGINT collection operations supporting high-priority national security missions.

Serving as the senior technical authority and first-line lead for SIOs within a multi-disciplinary 24/7 operations center, this role owns shift coverage, team readiness, qualification, and the quality of collection output. The Team Lead plans and oversees multi-mode SIGINT and electronic warfare collection, directs triage of time-sensitive signals for exploitation, and ensures collection results reach analysts, targeting officers, and mission partners in time to matter.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrated performance as a SIO on this program, deep hands‑on SIGINT experience on ground or airborne platforms, and the ability to lead technical personnel under pressure. This role requires the ability to coordinate with mission managers and targeting officers, manage taskings across organizations, liaise with military and Intelligence Community counterparts, and communicate complex technical information clearly to program and customer leadership.

• Lead and supervise a team of SIOs across rotating shifts in a 24/7 intelligence operations center, including shift scheduling, task assignment, and coverage planning.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for SIGINT collection equipment, tradecraft, and procedures on the program.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee the execution of multi-mode SIGINT and electronic warfare collection operations supporting tactical and strategic missions.
• Coordinate with mission managers, targeting officers, and mission partners to align collection activity with mission priorities and decision timelines.
• Direct real-time triage of collected signals and ensure time‑sensitive material reaches exploitation.
• Review and approve SIGINT reporting, technical assessments, and shift turnover materials produced by the team.
• Manage taskings and information flow across multiple organizations, serving as the program’s primary SIO liaison to military and Intelligence Community elements.
• Own SIO training, qualification, and certification, including delivery of customer‑specific and on‑the‑job training.
• Evaluate team performance, provide feedback and mentoring, and support hiring and onboarding of new SIOs.
• Identify equipment, procedural, and staffing issues, and drive corrective actions and technical improvements with program and customer leadership.
• Ensure collected data is handled, secured, and manipulated in accordance with customer policy, and that team members comply.
• Brief program and customer leadership on collection status, team readiness, and operational risks.
• Support domestic and international travel, exercises, or short‑duration…