Sensor Integration Technical Lead

Location: Springfield or Chantilly, VA

Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Position Overview

The Sensor Integration Technical Lead provides technical leadership and guidance to a Product Development Team supporting complex mission and sensor integration efforts. This role serves as a key technical advisor to program leadership and customers, ensuring development activities meet program requirements, mission partner needs, and established development milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of 15+ technical professionals, supporting execution of product development and sensor integration activities


• Advise customer leadership on technical decisions, development priorities, and integration approaches to support achievement of program requirements and mission objectives


• Provide technical support to program risk management, identifying technical risks, assessing potential impacts, and supporting mitigation strategies


• Support requirements coordination and updates, including management and execution of Request for Change (RFC) processes


• Provide technical support for mission initialization and system integration activities.


• Coordinate with mission partners and stakeholders to ensure technical development activities remain aligned with mission requirements and program milestones


• Assess and communicate mission readiness to customer leadership, providing technical insight into the system's ability to support operational mission objectives.


• Support integration of the capability as part of a Major Systems Acquisition, ensuring alignment and interoperability with National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) systems


• Collaborate with program, engineering, mission partner, and customer teams to resolve technical issues and maintain progress toward integration and development milestones.


• Provide technical briefings and recommendations to senior customer and program leadership regarding integration status, risks, requirements, and mission readiness

Requirements 

• STEM Degree


• 12 to 18 years of relevant experience


• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures


• Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.


• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.


• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.


• INCOSE Certified Systems engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.


• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.


• Licensure as a professional engineer.


• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
  
  
  
  • ACSM
  
  
  • ASCE
  
  
  • ASPRS
  
  
  • OGC
  
  
  • SAREM
  
  
  • USGIF
  
  
  
  


• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.


• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.


• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience


• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Pay

• Target Salary Range: $130,000 to $170,000. The salary range listed represents the anticipated compensation for this position. Actual compensation will be determined based on the selected candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and other relevant factors

What You'll Love About Apogee

• Challenging work in support of US Intel Community - a Mission that Matters!


• Access to our cool ApogeePlex facility
  


• Support for new ideas & encouragement to take risks


• Professional Development Assistance (PDA)


• Wicked smart and collaborative coworkers


• Regular interfacing with company leadership


• 401(k) with huge company match


• Paid Time Off / Fixed & Floating Holidays


• Medical, Dental, Vision


• Health Savings Accounts / Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts


• Life Insurance, Disability (Short and Long Term), Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
  

Apogee's Mission

• Be the PROVIDER of choice for government & commercial organizations with an unwavering commitment to responsiveness, accuracy, integrity, collaboration, and innovation


• Be the EMPLOYER of choice committed to an open & transparent corporate atmosphere and progressive culture that attracts and empowers world class professionals to explore cutting-edge technical solutions while fostering professional growth


• Be the preferred SOURCE for cutting-edge Analytic Products, Systems & Software Engineering, Big Data Integration, IT and Business Services that directly contribute to customer success

Apogee Integration is an EEO Employer