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Northrop Grumman · 11 hours ago

Sr Staff Engineer Mission Architect - R10218975

Dulles, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$193K/yr - $289K/yr

10+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company seeking a Mission Architect to join their Space Sector team in Dulles, VA. The role involves leading technical efforts to support capture and strategy for various programs, managing a technical team, and communicating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Manage the capture technical team

Direct developmental and analytical efforts to reduce risk, mature the system, ensure mission success, and grow the business area

Support the family of programs with system architecture establishment/evolution and CONOPs development

Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to an audience of non-subject matter experts with varying levels of domain experience

Educate leads, customers, and engineers on mission capability, analysis, and CONOPS

Performs system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign

Support capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis

Qualification

Systems EngineeringMission DesignSatellite Ground SoftwareModeling & SimulationBriefing PresentationInterpersonal SkillsWritten CommunicationVerbal Communication

Required

Bachelor's degree with 14 years of professional experience – OR – Master's degree with 12 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 10 years of professional experience

Requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret/SCI security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time

Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices

Experience with developing and presenting briefing slides to senior leaders and executive level personnel

Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within diverse teams