Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead
SAIC · Denver
SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from DenverAurora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.
This IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will:
- Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills
- Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers
- Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents
- Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks
- Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments
This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
- Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
- Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
- Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
- Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
- Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required
- Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
- Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
- Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making;
- Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
- Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats;
- Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments;
- Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;
- Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;
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