Establish system architecture and CONOPS, perform system trades and analysis, flow down the architecture and CONOPS into requirements and interfaces, and support verification planning.
Ensure the logical and detailed conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions.
Drive the development and verification of system requirements.
Effectively communicate technical decisions and challenges to program, subcontractor, customer management, and executive leadership.
Participate in developing and executing critical development program reviews, including System Design Reviews (SDR), software demonstrations, and formal customer reviews.
Drive system performance, integration, and test activities, culminating in final system certification across multiple customer sites.
Travel regularly to the United Arab Emirates to support customer engagement, program execution, and technical collaboration.
WHO WE ARE
The MIC2 organization delivers advanced command and control capabilities that support integrated air and missile defense missions around the world. Our teams partner closely with international customers to modernize critical defense systems through innovative engineering, secure architectures, and advanced software solutions.
We are committed to technical excellence, collaboration, and delivering solutions that strengthen our customers' mission readiness while building long-term strategic partnerships.
WHO YOU ARE
You are an experienced technical leader who enjoys solving complex systems engineering challenges and guiding multidisciplinary teams through all phases of program execution.
You excel at balancing technical excellence with customer engagement, are comfortable making critical engineering decisions, and enjoy collaborating with domestic and international stakeholders. You thrive in environments where architecture, integration, software, infrastructure, and cybersecurity come together to deliver mission-critical capabilities.
PLEASE NOTE
This position is based in the United States but requires regular extended travel to the United Arab Emirates to support customer engagement, program execution, and relationship building.
Additional travel to customer sites throughout the UAE is required as well as test event support
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- +12 years of technical leadership including significant experience in design, integration, test and/or operations of a C2 or IAMD program.
- Prior Engineering Leadership position with experience leading execution of complex development programs and demonstration of driving technical issues/challenges to closure.
- Experience working with mission CONOPS and how it evolves into the design reference mission (DRM), day in the life (DITL), or equivalent method of defining mission operations
- Extensive experience leading teams in generation of technical products with the ability to prioritize competing requirements and customer objectives
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and risk management abilities.
- An energetic, self-starter personality and attitude, with the desire to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated team player and proven success working in cross-functional teams with strong interpersonal skills and an ability to build effective working relationships
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading engineering teams and programs through effective use of change control boards (ERB, CCB)
- Ability to travel to and within the UAE to customer sites
Desired Skills
Experience working on international programs
- Demonstrated success in early program development and transitioning into execution and delivery
- Strong technical initiative with the ability to work in a fast-paced, synergetic team environment
- Ability to lead multi-functional, multi-site teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong social skills, and ability to build consensus among peers while building solid relationships with team members, leadership, and customers
- Experience shaping Customer expectations and perceptions in a competitive proposal environment
- Recognized as an authority in systems thinking techniques with the demonstrated ability to apply them to a wide range of sophisticated problems and train others in their application
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
