The role requires experience in Systems Engineering, system-level architecture development, competitive assessment, cost/benefit analyses, and technical management. A successful candidate should have demonstrated leadership across multiple disciplines, with expertise in model-based design and operations for large scale networks integrating multiple technologies (terrestrial, radio, satellite) and system life-cycle sustainment.
The ACE will partner directly with business development portfolio owners, internal/external Engineering and senior management to define solutions against customer needs and document them in technical presentations, white papers and proposals.
Essential Functions
Build customer intimacy to understand mission needs and priorities, identify the mission gaps and understand how to close the gaps
Drive mission discovery interviews, stakeholder mapping, operational workflow analysis, and pain-point and gap analysis
Translate customer language into technical and business needs, advocate for the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders, and serve as the voice of the customer
Drive inclusion of critical technology and capabilities in technical roadmaps
Assesses competitors and potential partners to define win strategies that maximize value to customers
Architect solutions to meet the customer’s operational needs
Develop Use Cases and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) representing customer missions, decompose requirements, perform trade studies to include making/buy decisions, designing scalable and resilient solutions
Identify L3Harris capabilities demonstratable to customers and develop demo scenarios to showcase the benefits
Support business development and competitive business capture by shaping discriminating secure networking, communications and surveillance solutions.
Support business development activities including RFI/RFP analysis, generating compliance matrices, solution shaping, win-theme development, technical volume writing, and competitive positioning
Prepare and deliver technical presentations to cross-functional and integrated product teams
Identify and maintain relationships with strategic partners, both internal and external
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
5+ years of experience implementing/deploying terrestrial telecommunications; familiarity with IP/MPLS, SD-WAN, routing/switching, fiber and microwave transport, LTE/5G wireless, and QoS
5+ years of experience leading and executing architecture development using MOSA principles for DoW/government programs using Agile processes
5+ years of experience as a trusted advisor to the customer translating the mission to actionable system capabilities and solutions
Ability to obtain an FAA Public Trust or DoW clearance
Preferred Additional Skills
Experience with network implementation; including site surveys, deployment engineering, cutover/migration strategies, network operations, service management
Experience with telecommunications carrier/service-provider integration
Experience implementing/deploying non-terrestrial communications; familiarity with SATCOM architectures and services, LEO/MEO/GEO tradeoffs, hybrid terrestrial–satellite network design
Understanding of information management concepts like data architecture, data governance, real-time data distribution, API/event-driven integration, and cloud/edge deployment patterns
Understanding of surveillance concepts like primary/secondary surveillance radar, ADS-B, multilateration, space-based surveillance, sensor fusion, and track processing
Understanding of cybersecurity and critical infrastructure like Zero Trust concepts, network segmentation, secure remote access, OT/IT integration, NIST and CISA guidance, classified/sensitive-system considerations
Experience with capture and proposal support, authoring technical volumes, generating Basis of Estimates (BOEs), maintaining technical roadmaps and identifying adjacent capability opportunities
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