Lead Transition Engineer, Chantilly

XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full‑time

Lead Transition Engineer

to our team, in

Chantilly, VA.

This position is

100% Onsite.

Security Clearance Requirements:

Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

Responsibilities:

Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services

Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate

Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency

Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities

Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities

Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Qualifications:

Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities

Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions

Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation

Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification

Self‑starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics

Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)

Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders– consensus builder

Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Desired/Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics

Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process

Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

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