Director, Business Chief Engineer - Space Superiority and Imaging

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L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Director, Business Chief Engineer – Space Superiority and Imaging 

Job Code: 23016

Job Location: Rochester, NY or Herndon, VA, or Rockwall, TX or Melbourne, FL (On-site)

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants

Job Description:  

L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems seeks a Chief Engineer with expertise in space command and control ground systems for DoD and IC missions. The person in this position will be deployed as a Chief Engineer for a large business area within L3Harris, responsible for the technical strategy and technical execution of ongoing customer funded efforts. This includes all phases of development from pre-award concept and initial architecture, through design, testing and verification, and on to production, deployment and operational acceptance. The Chief Engineer will be responsible for directing the execution activities of all functional disciplines for existing programs and new pursuits.

Essential Functions:

• Application of knowledge of DoD and IC missions (with emphasis on space systems) to develop mission management, autonomous mission operations, real-time decision support, and multi-domain command and control systems.
• Leadership of systems/software engineering and image science to develop autonomous intelligence solutions for space-based ISR.
• Drive innovation using mission engineering and AI/ML for development of threat detection and decision analysis for space-based applications.
• Technical leadership of system-of-system modeling and analysis for ground-based software architectures, mission-unique processing, and satellite control.
• Works to achieve annual business revenue objectives and manage project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization
• Identifies IR&D efforts in alignment with technical roadmaps to create technology differentiators
• Leadership of pursuits with emphasis on technical baseline rigor, cost justification, executability, reuse efficiency, and risk management.
• Provide mentorship to develop lower-level engineering staff into future SMEs
• Establishes program risks/opportunities
• Lead/establish Independent Review Teams
• Responsible for technical issue resolution, ensures root cause is identified and corrective actions are executed
• Expected to travel 25%

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree engineering, science, or similar technical field with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance
• Prior or current experience leading large, complex, and multidisciplinary teams on engineering development programs
• 8+ years experience with engineering processes and lifecycle management
• Prior or current experience with technology innovation and owning technology roadmaps, prototyping efforts, and reference architectures
• Experience optimizing and leading engineering processes for efficiency and compliance
• 8+ years experience in competitive engineering cost estimation
• Experience scaling engineering talent, growing technical teams, and staffing programs effectively to meet customer/program needs

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active TS/SCI clearance highly preferred
• 3+ years of functional management experience, leading a large team >50 resources across multiple disciplines
• 5+ years of Space Systems domain ground system knowledge desired
• Strong multi-disciplinary technical breadth in Space and Ground Domain
• Ability to quickly understand missions, customer sets, drive strategy
• Experience in technical issue resolution, ability to ensure root cause is identified
• Experience with requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.
• Ability to plan and execute internal investment strategy
• Experience successfully executing multi-site engineering efforts
• Able to present results and communicate with customers and senior management

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $157,000.00 - $291,000.00 for NY/TX/FL. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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