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What does this role look like?
The successful candidate will serve as both Systems Engineering (SE) Manager and Deputy Chief Systems Engineer (CSE) across the SDA portfolio providing strategic technical leadership and day-to-day guidance across critical SE domains—requirements management, verification, interface control, architecture, baseline configuration management, and command/telemetry databases.
This role includes shaping portfolio-level SE processes to drive product delivery, and extensive collaboration with integrated project teams. As the Deputy CSE, this role supports the CSE for technical direction, planning, staffing, design review execution, program management/customer meetings, technical baseline control, and assess cost and schedule performance. The position requires a high level of technical and business acumen to balance priorities, drive issue prevention/resolution, and clearly communicate status and needs to our customers/partners, and with both Lockheed Martin and supplier executives.
The information below reflects the standard job description for this position:
Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
