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Senior SIGINT Chief Architect

Location Chantilly, Virginia Category Engineering, Technology, & Science Job Type Full time Job Id R2096958 Posted Date 06/17/2025
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Senior SIGINT Chief Architect

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

  • Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

  • Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

  • Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR is seeking a Senior SIGINT Chief Architect to be part of our team supporting our customer in Chantilly, VA that delivers mission-critical capabilities directly supporting intelligence-gathering missions from overhead systems.  We acquire and deliver SIGINT space and ground architectures resulting that deliver collected data distributed to US Government Intelligence Community and Military users.

The SIGINT Chief Architect serves as an advisor to support the Government in defining new mission requirements, performing classic Systems Engineering sub-tasks such as Requirements, Configuration Management, Integration, Verification, Validation and Test (IVV&T), Risk and Readiness.  This position envisions representing the Government team and working with development contractors in performing all aspects of satellite space and ground hardware and software development.  The SIGINT directorate embraces innovation and agile software development in a relentless effort to meet intelligence needs and shorten the timelines to provide actionable critical information to US Government decision-makers.  This is a position of trust advising the US Government and supporting critical missions in SIGINT, COMINT, FISINT, and ELINT. 

This is a contingent position based upon contract award

Specific responsibilities may include:

  • Define SIGINT requirements for current systems and future HIVE architecture

  • Lead senior management forums, failure review boards, engineering control gates to influence major decision making at the senior leadership level

  • Develop and coordinate CONOPS of SIGINT mission planning and scheduling systems

  • Understand system-to-system interfaces and function as an Integrator

  • Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures

  • Monitor system and segment schedules, recognize dependencies, Identify risks and opportunities

  • Facilitate readiness, release planning events, and demonstrations in support of system and acquisition-level sprints and increments

  • Review Request for Changes (RFCs) and identify impacts, in addition author RFCs for the customer

  • Advise test, verification and validation  

  • Integrate new systems and initiatives in support of expanded SIGINT mission systems, work directly with our developers and users in operations.

  • Participate in studies looking at the future generation of SIGINT capabilities spanning the next decade.

  • Familiarity with overall SIGINT space and ground customer, technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing legacy SIGINT systems.

  • Experience identifying user needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives

Minimum qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field (Master's degree preferred)

  • 10+ years of experience in SIGINT systems engineering

  • Strong knowledge of SIGINT mission space and ground systems

  • Experience with system-to-system interfaces and integration

  • Awareness of Agile and DevOps methodologies

  • Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and development teams

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Strong communication skills

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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