Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

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;

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematics and 16 or more years 14 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)