TECHNICAL DIRECTOR FOR NEXT GENERATION INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Full Job Description

This is the senior leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide technical alignment, delivery, and governance of integrated weapon system capabilities across the Department of War (DoW).

The incumbent leads a portfolio of efforts that connect development, testing, and fielding of advanced capabilities across the Services, Program Incumbent Offices (PEOs), and supporting agencies, ensuring warfighter requirements are met with timely, affordable, and operationally relevant solutions.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position; you must show that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ) within your resume - NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES.

Resumes exceeding two pages will be disqualified.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ): All applicants must be able to address accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications in a structured interview assessment: Extensive knowledge and experience with providing strategic planning and technical management of major acquisition development programs, including the ability to review, analyze and resolve complex technological issues for major defense weapon system programs, with a particular focus on system-of-systems integration.

Experienced in leading technical teams to integrate diverse sensor systems (ground, sea, space), applying systems engineering, risk management, interface control, and system-level trade studies to optimize performance within system-of-systems architectures.

Major Duties:

- Manages enterprise technical integration of multi-domain weapon system development and delivery, ensuring seamless synchronization across Services, acquisition pathways, and functional organizations.

Leads the enterprise to integrate diverse technical solutions, including radar systems, interceptors, command and control networks, and space-based assets, with a focus on minimizing integration risks and maximizing system-level performance.

- Directs technical development and integration activities that support coordinated testing and fielding of critical capabilities under compressed timelines and emerging threat conditions.

Drives technical risk management, system-of-systems engineering principles, and the ability to make informed system-level trade-off decisions under pressure.

- Develops and implements robust department level technical integration processes and performance metrics that provide visibility across all technical and operational dimensions to ensure sound engineering principles, reflect the actual integrated system performance, and be designed to identify potential integration issues early in the development cycle.

- Establishes and manages formal governance structures, including Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), technical reviews and assessments, and cross-service technical working groups.

Ensures this governance structure includes appropriate technical expertise, particularly in system-of-systems engineering and integration and to provide a forum for rigorous technical review and system-level trade-off analysis.

- Defines roles, responsibilities, and decision authorities to ensure effective technical integration and resolution of technical challenges across organizational boundaries including establishing clear lines of technical authority and accountability for integration efforts and ensuring that integration issues are resolved at the appropriate level.

- Develops and maintains reporting frameworks and dashboards that provide real-time insight into execution status, capability alignment, kill web performance, and risk posture.

Guides the development of dashboards to present technical data in a clear and concise manner, focusing on key system-of-systems performance metrics, and enabling informed decision making regarding integration strategies and resource allocation.

- Delivers routine reports, performance assessments, and strategic updates to agency leadership, OSW, and external oversight bodies.

Produces products that articulate complex technical issues, including system-of-systems tradeoffs, to non-technical audiences.

- Leads the design, refinement, and analysis of system-of-systems kill webs across all domains (air, land, sea, space, cyber, and electromagnetic spectrum) requiring a deep understanding of kill chain analysis, sensor shooter pairing, command and control architectures, and the ability to optimize kill web performance through system-level trade-off studies.

- Guides architecture development efforts that integrate sensors, shooters, command-and-control, and effectors into resilient and adaptive kill chains.

Leads the technical community to ensure that these architectures are robust, scalable, adaptable to evolving threats, and designed to facilitate seamless integration of diverse components.

- Oversees mission-level modeling and simulation to assess kill web performance against peer and near-peer threats, enabling threat-informed acquisition and capability trade-offs.

Produces assessments and interprets results of these simulations, understands their limitations, and makes informed recommendations regarding system design, deployment, and system-level trade-offs to improve kill web effectiveness.

- Guides enterprise-level risk management processes across programs, mission areas, and kill webs, with a particular focus on integration risks and system-of-systems vulnerabilities.

- Leads enterprise trade space assessments, recommending risk-adjusted strategies for schedule recovery, capability off-ramps, or reallocation of investment to maximize mission outcomes.

These recommendations must be based on rigorous system-level trade studies that consider cost, schedule, performance, and risk across the entire enterprise.

- Serves as the technical authority for risk review boards and collaborates with independent technical authorities to validate risk mitigation plans and system-level trade-off decisions.

The Incumbent must be able to challenge technical assumptions, ensure that risk mitigation plans are realistic and effective, and that system-level trade-offs are justified by quantifiable improvements in overall system performance.