Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

Description

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from DenverAurora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.

This IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products

• Have excellent written and oral communication skills

• Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers

• Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents

• Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks

• Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments

This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research

• Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions

• Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status

• Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews

• Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables

• Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required

• Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications

• Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives

• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making;

• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques

• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats;

• Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments;

• Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;

• Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;

Qualifications

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields

• In-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems

• Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts

• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph. US Citizenship is required

• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics

• Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development

• Experience with project or task technical leadership

• Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies 

• Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD) 

• Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST 

• Demonstrated proficiency with program-planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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