Chief Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a GDIT Chief Engineer.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people and culture are our difference. As the Chief Engineer you will be the difference to our customer and our employees. Our customer’s success depends on an experienced Chief Engineer joining our team to ensure GDIT integrates and coordinates all activities to achieve the program mission and contract performance, schedule, deliverable, and cost objectives.

Role of Chief Engineer

 The CE is the senior technical leader with extensive experience supporting satellite C2 systems, subsystems, cyber, crypto, communications, cloud technology implementations. The CE is well versed in systems engineering, architecture, project/program management, scheduling and is the lead for all core/mission risks and opportunities. 

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the entire systems engineering lifecycle, using authoritative data, systems architecture, and systems modeling to create more efficient and lower-risk processes that produce artifacts of higher quality

  • Leads technical requirements development by codifying model-based practices, designed test-driven requirements architecture for verification

  • Leads systems design process by decomposing systems into functional and logical architectures, identifying components for re-use while adhering to modular open systems architecture (MOSA)

  • Oversees implementation by aligning to change management processes and providing current design artifacts substantiated from authoritative data

  • Leads system integration process by developing a data-driven and model-based approach to interface control, implementing automation as necessary to verify subsystems and components adhere to interface design

  • Leads verification process by architecting test activities (unit, subsystem, integration, and end-to-end) and ensuring that test environments maintain parity with operational environments

  • Leads validation process by developing user acceptance plans and coordinating with customers and stakeholders

  • Leads sustainment processes by designing maintenance activities that are highly repeatable and leverage resulting data to inform stakeholders to high-risk subsystems and/or components

• Oversees mission unique software integration and interface control management.

• Performs system integration of multiple efforts to integrate complex space systems, ground segment integration, and deployment into operations.

• Performs systems architecting and engineering activities such as system requirements definition, interface definition, design, interface management, data architecture development, systems integration, performance analysis, lifecycle cost analysis & estimation, decision analysis, and development and refinement of communications concepts of operation.

• Provides input to program risk management activities by supplying technical risk data, including risk mitigation plans, likelihood of risk, and impact dates.

• Independently collaborates with Government program office representatives, FFRDC, SETA, and contractor personnel.

Certification: CSEP or strong experience in SE is required; Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect (Professional) required

Education:  Minimum is a BS with an MS desired.  Degree must be technical.

Experience: Minimum 15 yrs combined experience with satellite C2 engineering, integration and sustainment including knowledge of model-based system engineering, cloud implementation, RMF compliance, DevSecOps, AI/ML automation, data analytics, agile development practices, and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.

Clearance: Must have a TS with SCI eligibility.

Skills Needed: 

• Strong leadership and organizational skills in a highly dynamic environment

• Collaborative communications skills are a must with the customer counterpart and w/in the contractor team. 

• Visionary leader able to achieve full and complete understanding of the baseline and be able to take charge and lead innovation. 

Work Environment:

• Work Location: Customer site (Albuquerque, NM)

• Travel Requirements: Occasional travel may be required.

 
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