Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer (Melbourne, FL & Herndon, VA)
L3Harris, Herndon, VA, United States
Job Title: Senior Scientist, Systems Engineering
Job Code: 36543
Job Location: Melbourne, FL & Herndon, VA
Job Schedule: 9/80
Essential Functions
Interpret customers’ mission needs; identify mission gaps and customer priorities and challenges in closing these gaps
Advocate the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders
Roadmap organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to new business opportunities
Assess competitors and potential partners to define win strategies that maximize value to customers and L3Harris against customer mission needs and requirements
Evaluate customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
Synthesize and own life cycle of system architecture aligned to mission needs
Develop Use Cases, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), or Operational Descriptions Documents (ODD)
Generate and assess system-level architecture options; decompose opportunity to configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
Identify L3Harris capabilities demonstratable to customers and develop demo scenarios showing L3Harris solution’s benefits vs. operational needs
Lead the development of system-level solutions to customer needs
Demonstrate broad knowledge of relevant technology and solution providers; access SMEs as needed to refine technical content and validate feasibility
Determine how requirements can be met with existing internal and external capabilities and assess impact on cost and mission operations from relaxation or tightening of the requirements
Assess and provide direction for make/buy decisions and selection of suppliers, including recommendations on strategic partners
Lead and perform trade studies for both tactical and strategic technical decisions for captures and proposals
Facilitate technical coordination between external customer’s engineers, industry engineers and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues, serving as technical advocate and voice of the customer
Prepare and present technical information that addresses specific subjects, with technical content complexity aligned to target audience expectations
Analyze and develop recommendations for resolution of contractual technical issues
Maintain a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies and capabilities
Lead and coordinate pursuit activities such as technical baseline reviews, Request for Information (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) and Screening Information Request (SIR) responses, and white papers
Obtain and maintain FAA Public Trust or DoD Clearance
Qualifications
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree and 15 years of prior related experience; or Graduate Degree and 13 years of prior related experience; or no degree with 19 years of prior related experience
Leadership capability to guide business or functional teams without formal management role
Experience creating and implementing network architectures (terrestrial & non‑terrestrial) and complex mission solutions, inclusive of NOC/SOC systems
Proven technical business development skills and effective oral and written communication skills
Proven success generating technical solutions for winning proposals
Previous experience leading and executing architecture development work using MOSA principles for DoD/government programs using Agile engineering processes
Full program life‑cycle experience with demonstrated engineering team leadership across all disciplines
Experience working with or for the Department of Defense (DoD), preferably USAF or USSF, in a technical role
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Job Code: 36543
Job Location: Melbourne, FL & Herndon, VA
Job Schedule: 9/80
Essential Functions
Interpret customers’ mission needs; identify mission gaps and customer priorities and challenges in closing these gaps
Advocate the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders
Roadmap organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to new business opportunities
Assess competitors and potential partners to define win strategies that maximize value to customers and L3Harris against customer mission needs and requirements
Evaluate customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
Synthesize and own life cycle of system architecture aligned to mission needs
Develop Use Cases, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), or Operational Descriptions Documents (ODD)
Generate and assess system-level architecture options; decompose opportunity to configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
Identify L3Harris capabilities demonstratable to customers and develop demo scenarios showing L3Harris solution’s benefits vs. operational needs
Lead the development of system-level solutions to customer needs
Demonstrate broad knowledge of relevant technology and solution providers; access SMEs as needed to refine technical content and validate feasibility
Determine how requirements can be met with existing internal and external capabilities and assess impact on cost and mission operations from relaxation or tightening of the requirements
Assess and provide direction for make/buy decisions and selection of suppliers, including recommendations on strategic partners
Lead and perform trade studies for both tactical and strategic technical decisions for captures and proposals
Facilitate technical coordination between external customer’s engineers, industry engineers and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues, serving as technical advocate and voice of the customer
Prepare and present technical information that addresses specific subjects, with technical content complexity aligned to target audience expectations
Analyze and develop recommendations for resolution of contractual technical issues
Maintain a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies and capabilities
Lead and coordinate pursuit activities such as technical baseline reviews, Request for Information (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) and Screening Information Request (SIR) responses, and white papers
Obtain and maintain FAA Public Trust or DoD Clearance
Qualifications
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree and 15 years of prior related experience; or Graduate Degree and 13 years of prior related experience; or no degree with 19 years of prior related experience
Leadership capability to guide business or functional teams without formal management role
Experience creating and implementing network architectures (terrestrial & non‑terrestrial) and complex mission solutions, inclusive of NOC/SOC systems
Proven technical business development skills and effective oral and written communication skills
Proven success generating technical solutions for winning proposals
Previous experience leading and executing architecture development work using MOSA principles for DoD/government programs using Agile engineering processes
Full program life‑cycle experience with demonstrated engineering team leadership across all disciplines
Experience working with or for the Department of Defense (DoD), preferably USAF or USSF, in a technical role
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