Senior Principal Systems Engineer – MilAv OPAS

Responsibilities

• Technical management and design review preparation and conduct.
• Requirements analysis and derivation, performance prediction, allocation of system-level requirements to lower-level requirements, and requirements management.
• Responsible for helping to manage the technical performance of a program team which may include multiple small teams (5-10).
• Plan out and lead the incremental development of upgrades and system improvements.
• Supports managing the cost & technical performance of a medium to large program team, or large subcontractor.
• Prepares and maintains project plans, budgets, and staffing requirements to ensure that all action item lists are completed, and project quality expectations are met.
• Support and motivate the team to deliver customer milestones and deliverables to meet program business plans.
• Interfacing with management, suppliers, customers, and members of the technical design team.
• Provide timely and effective communication to management and customers.
• Engineering activities associated with design, development, procurement, and testing.
• Provide technical and functional leadership for assigned Components, Projects, Teams and Tasks.
• Plan and maintain detailed schedule and resource plans.
• Lead Technology Development programs guiding products through Technology Readiness Level process.
• Understanding and demonstrating adherence to the FACE and DO/178 technical standards.
• Lead system development teams to understand, analyze, and develop the models, requirements, software, and designs using enterprise standard tools, processes, and industry best practices.
• Lead systems engineering execution and troubleshooting for complex embedded software applications, hardware, LRU’s, and system of systems environments.
• Ensures the development and management of technical risks and develops and executes mitigation plans.
• Establish trusted and influential relationships with customers, support staff, and suppliers.
• Mentoring and development of more junior engineers.
• Ability to travel domestically (up to 20% of time)

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
• Experience with Systems Engineering leadership in an agile environment.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end systems architecture governance and design principles.
• Expert in systems engineering and open systems architectures.
• Operations concept development
• System and product design
• Model & Requirements management
• Technical risk management, interface definition and control
• Experience with aircraft level system integration
• Development of integration and test plans, test cases and procedures.
• Executing product and system level tests to include experience with automation test tools or scripting.
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering concepts and tools such as Magic Draw CAMEO, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect.
• Experience in technical proposal writing - Make/Buy Decision-making and trade study experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with all levels of management and individual contributors on the program team.