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Description XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time Lead Transition Engineer to our team, in Chantilly, VA. This position is 100% Onsite. Requirements Security Clearance Requirements: • Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph Education: • Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
Responsibilities: • Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services • Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate • Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency • Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities • Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities • Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership Qualifications: • Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities • Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions • Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation • Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification • Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics • Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal) • Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder • Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project Desired/Preferred Qualifications: • Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics • Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process • Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies