Ground System Architect Engineer/Sr. Ground System Architect Engineer

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The divisionleveragesa broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.

The Architecture Concepts Department (ArCon) providesexpertisein architecture methods, processes, and tools to an extremely broad range of customers, including National Security Space (NSS) and other defense programs, NASA, NOAA, NNSA, DHS, and others.ArConstaffparticipatein and lead architecture trade studies, architecture conceptualization studies, architecture modeling tasks, and program assessment analyses at multiple levels of complexity, ranging from prototype systems to full scale acquisition systems in the space, ground, communications, and network domains.ArConapplies disciplined system architecting principles and leads cross-functional teams toprovideimpactful guidance toassistour customers in making key acquisition and operations decisions.

Work Model: This position will follow an in-person work model with a minimum of 4 days per week of onsite workrequiredat one of Aerospace’s campuses in Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, or El Segundo, CA.

WhatYou’llBe Doing

• Lead andparticipateinsystemarchitecture studies ofgroundsystem concepts, to include multi-disciplinary engineering teams, supporting problem framing, gap analysis, and trade space assessment

• Work with Aerospace program office, customer, and contractor personnel as a technical subject matter expert to elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies; mentor junior staff; support the scoping, planning, and execution of the study; and effectively communicate task status, methods, results, and recommendations in briefings and formal technical reports

• Define system capabilities, system of systems interfaces, and requirements forspace,ground,orintersegment system architectures to address user needs and perspectives

• Collaborate with other Aerospace personnel to marshal technicalexpertisein multiple technical disciplines and domains to enable concurrent engineering approaches to address complex problems

What You Need to be Successful

MinimumRequirements forEngineering Specialist:

• Bachelorof Sciencedegreeengineering, science, or a related technical field

• Typically,at least 6years of engineering experiencein the space, intelligence, and/or defense domains

• Proficiencyin system or enterprise architecting, systems engineering, concept design, and/or model-based systems engineering

• Demonstrated experience in ground system development, mission control,or mission processing for space systems

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present methods and results effectively in briefings, formal reports, and informal communications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively withteams,customers, Aerospace program offices, and contractors; to collaborate with other functional organizations within Aerospace; and to mentor and develop junior staff

• Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and schedule commitments

• Available and willing to travel domestically and internationally approx. 5-10%

• This position requiresan activeTop Secret/SCI security clearance issued by theU.S. government.U.S. citizenship isrequiredto obtain a security clearance

In additionto the above, theminimumrequirements forSeniorEngineering Specialistinclude:

• Typically,at least12 years ofsubstantive experience in the space, intelligence, and/or defense domains

• Ability toidentifyproblem space, assess trade options, and independently formulate courses of action

• Demonstrated success in organizing and leading cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute studies and assessments and generate quality products

• Experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews

• Ability to collaborate with employees, customers, acquisition program offices, and contractors

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Advanced degreein engineering, math, science, or related technical discipline

• More relevant work and/or graduate school experience, greater than 5 years, in system or enterprise architecting, systems engineering,ormodel-based systems engineering

• More relevant work and/or graduate school experience, greater than 5 years, in spaceor groundsystems. Experience inground system architectures,command and control, system of systems engineering,orsystem testand training are desired.

• Experience with theSatellite Control Network (SCN) or Intelligence Community ground control networks

• Experience with telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) or tactical command and control (C2)

• Hands-on experience with system or enterprise modeling in the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), or Unified Profile forDoDAFand MODAF (UPDM)

• Experience working closely with key Aerospacecustomer agenciesin the defense and intelligence community, including strong knowledge of their domainand strong professional networks