Deputy Engineering Manager, Systems Integration & Test Engineer

Job Title: Deputy Senior Engineering Manager – Systems Integration & Test
Job Code: 46219
Job Location: Palm Bay, FL
Job Schedule: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking an experienced System Integration & Test (SI&T) Senior Manager to serve in a Deputy Engineering Management (DEM) role leading the Intel & Cyber (I&C) Sector SI&T organization. This position combines both people leadership and technical execution, requiring a candidate who can effectively split time between organizational management responsibilities and direct support of SI&T technical activities.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrated expertise in system integration and test engineering across complex networks, systems, and products, along with proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams of engineers and technicians. This individual will act as a key delegate to the Engineering Manager and will help drive execution excellence, staffing strategy, employee development, process improvement, and technical rigor across the SI&T function.

This role requires a hands-on leader who can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels, ensuring the SI&T organization is staffed, aligned, and executing effectively in support of program and sector objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and manage teams of SI&T engineers and technicians, with responsibility for staffing, workload planning, performance management, employee development, and day-to-day functional oversight.
• Serve as the primary delegate for the Engineering Manager, helping ensure continuity of operations, decision-making, and communication flow across the organization.
• Provide leadership in proposal support activities, including review and approval of Basis of Estimate (BOE) inputs, staffing plans, and technical resource planning.
• Drive effective communication upward and downward within the organization, ensuring alignment between leadership, functional teams, and program execution teams.
• Apply SI&T engineering standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to the integration and test of complex systems, networks, and products.
• Recommend and implement improvements to products, processes, policies, standards, and operating plans in support of organizational and functional strategy.
• Support technical SI&T activities as needed, including:
  • test planning
  • test procedure development and execution
  • data review and analysis
  • requirements verification and validation
  • coordination with systems, software, hardware, network, and program engineering teams
• Partner with program and functional leadership to identify risks, resolve technical and execution challenges, and ensure successful delivery of SI&T scope.
• Promote a culture of accountability, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration across the SI&T organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading SI&T efforts for complex systems, networks, or mission-focused products.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including experience briefing senior leadership and customers.
• Experience managing large, technically diverse teams in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Control Account Manager (CAM) with responsibility for cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles, including development and maintenance of control accounts, BOEs, work authorization documentation, budgets, schedules, and performance metrics.
• Experience balancing functional management responsibilities with direct technical contributions.
• Ability to influence across engineering disciplines and drive alignment between functional and program teams.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.