Job Title: FCS Interface Integration Lead 6
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Zip Code: 92647

Description:

Location
Huntington Beach, CA

Virtual Office/Telecommute?
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Virtual Work Not Available

Shift
First

Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys

Division
Networks & Space Systems

Program
Combat Systems

Occupation Title
Software Engineering

Skills Management Title
Real Time Software Engineer

Job Classification
6J7BP6

Job Type
Non-Management

Experience Level
Senior Level (15+ years of experience)

Exemption Status
Exempt

Union
No

Security Clearance Required?
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Current Secret - US Citizenship Required

Work Eligibility Required?
Yes

US Person Status Required?
Yes

Export Control Required?
Yes

Relocation Money Available?
Yes

Date Posted
09/22/2008

Closing Date
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10/22/2008

Position Description
Lead the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Lead System Integrators (LSI) Software Horizontal Integration Team. The team is responsible for the coordination with Systems and Software suppliers to ensure interfaces are correctly flowed and decomposed into supplier specifications, and with hardware/software integrators within the LSI to ensure the interfaces are correctly implemented. Scope of interface definition includes over 30 software partners building millions of lines of code to reside in ~20 different platforms. Candidate will need to work with the customer, other IPT software engineering teams, and software development partners to horizontally and vertically integrate the systems and software interfaces. The responsibilities will include: prioritization of team activities, maintaining and providing team performance status in management and system/software engineering discussions and major reviews, coordinating team activities, tracking/resolving technical issues to ensure proper interface definition, performing risk management, and managing cost and schedule performance. Provide leadership and guidance on software interfaces to the full FCS LSI Team. Represent Software Distributed System Integration (SDSI) in the FCS SCCB Interface and Data Pre Board. Systems and software engineering experience in the specification, interface definition, design, implementation, integration and verification of complex software-intensive systems are required. Candidate must have the ability to: work with senior management, military customers, and stakeholders at all levels in the organization. Candidate must also be able to lead a large software development team (including suppliers throughout the US). The candidate must also work well in a large teaming environment; manage multiple and competing priorities; and delegate effectively. Experience with military customers is a plus. The candidate must also have significant experience with policies and procedures; technical software subcontract management; project management; large defense software development projects; schedule management; and earned value systems. Excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Must combine strong organizational and analytical problem solving skills with the ability to see the broad picture in a given business situation. Candidates must possess strong leadership and team building skills, as well as the ability to work independently. Candidate must possess excellent communication, effective verbal and presentation skills and be comfortable statusing difficult issues to senior level Boeing or Subcontractor management. Candidate must possess decision-making and problem solving capability and business competency. Experience in IPT programs (particularly geographically separated teams) is highly desirable. SECRET clearance required, an active TOP SECRET clearance is desired. Top Secret required post-start. Moderate travel is anticipated; US Citizenship required.

Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Communication

Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Widely recognized as an enterprise wide expert in consistently keeping the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even the most advanced and complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently and proactively seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Proactively attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Regularly mentors and advises fellow senior team leaders on effective communication techniques.
[ + ] Contributing To Team Success

Consistently and proactively makes procedural or process suggestions to fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers, internal employees and external customers for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides and/or develops necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to and helps define the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
[ + ] Cross Functional Partnerships

Analyzes the organization, potential external partners, and own area to identify key relationships that should be initiated or improved to further the attainment of organizational goal. Exchanges information with fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers and internal employees to clarify partnership benefits and potential problems; collaboratively determines the scope and expectations of the partnership so that both areas' needs can be met. Collaboratively determines courses of action to realize mutual goals; facilitates agreement on each partner's responsibilities and needed support; places higher priority on organization's goals than on own area's goals; anticipates effects of own area's actions and decisions on partners; influences fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers throughout the organization and in partner organizations to support partnership objectives. Implements effective means for monitoring and evaluating the partnership process and the attainment of mutual goals.
[ + ] Managing Work

Identifies and creates hierarchy of activities and tasks based on criticality; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Deploys and ensures that required equipment and/or materials are in appropriate locations so that own and others' work can be done effectively and efficiently; communicates identified resources to others involved in the work. Effectively allocates own time to complete work; coordinates own and others' schedules including fellow senior team leaders and team leaders to avoid conflicts and maximize resources. Makes effective use of available resources and advertises resources to others on team (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently. Uses time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.
[ + ] Systems Thinking

Provides industry recognized expertise in evaluating job tasks and processes related to program/project objective(s); identifies non-value-added components and barriers. Expertly formulates complex change strategies; adeptly involves others to evaluate options for change and encourage buy-in. In a consulting role to executive leadership, makes appropriate changes to job/role structures and processes by assigning accountability, communicating effectively, focusing on new skill development, and integrating with related systems or processes. Guides others to use accurate measurement systems to monitor the implementation.
Technical
[ + ] Analytical Skills

Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the enterprise level.
[ + ] Real-time S/W Architecture

Highly advanced knowledge of real-time software architecture and design methodologies. Ability to synthesize real-time software architectures and designs that meet real-time requirements, characteristics and constraints.
[ + ] Real-time S/W Domain Knowledge

Highly advanced knowledge domains, characteristics, constraints and products that require real-time software and influence architecture, requirements, interfaces, designs, and integration/test approaches. Real-time domain examples include control systems, human interfaces and signal processing. Examples of characteristics and constraints that impact real-time software include hardware/software timing, sizing, bandwidth, optimization and synchronization. Examples of products include aircraft, missiles, airborne/shipboard/space systems/ground-based operational systems and real-time support systems such as simulators and training systems.
[ + ] Real-time Target Environment

Highly advanced knowledge of real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols, simulation frameworks and electrical interfaces. Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components.
[ + ] Requirements/Tracing

Highly advanced knowledge of how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

Education and/or Experience
Degree and typical experience in engineering classification: Bachelor's and 20 or more years' experience, Master's with 18 or more years' experience or PhD with 15 or more years' experience. Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

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Current Secret - US Citizenship Required.

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