Sr. Digital Engineering Lead
Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT)About the role
As Sr. Digital Engineering Lead, you will provide technical direction and mentorship for a team working to establish an Integrated Digital Engineering Environment (IDEE) for DOD system development. With the technical team's support, you will be responsible for Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Twin Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering and Software Engineering activities. You will serve as the technical primary point of contact for the US Air Force customer and its stakeholders, chair working group meetings, and lead customer demonstrations and training, including occasional travel to other IDT offices as well as customer and stakeholder sites.
All applicants must be able to obtain/maintain an active U.S. Security Clearance. Responsibilities Include:- Manage technical and prototyping functions of a DOD project.
- Work with project stakeholders to collaboratively address issues & solutions
- Supporting technical aspects of Meetings, Working Groups, and Bi-Weekly Teleconferences with customer.
- Support and provide inputs to the customer’s Digital Engineering Implementation Strategy.
- Implement Digital Engineering (DE) best practices including Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirement analyses, and trade studies.
- Train and assist the customer and stakeholders in using the IDEE and its toolsets.
- Support test and evaluation of the digital twins, including identification and resolution of failures.
- Develop and deliver a comprehensive digital engineering training plan.
- Develop and deliver customized user manuals for the IDEE, digital tools, and digital models.
- Provide training to the customer for digital testing, system validation, and evaluation.
- Identify, prioritize, and track technical tasking for the engineering team.
- Occasionally travel to other IDT offices and customer sites (approximately 5-10%)
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years technical leadership experience
Required skills:
- Experience working with government cloud environments
- Experience leading engineering teams for technically complex programs
- Ability to prioritize and manage a team’s workload across several tasks and milestones
- Experience conducting engineering trade studies and developing engineering reports
- Ability to decompose and document requirements and specifications
- Understanding of distributed systems, algorithms, data structures and software design patterns
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience with software testing and configuration management
- Ability to convert customer requirements into a technical roadmap and tasking
- Ability to identify and describe algorithmic complexity
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience
- Experience developing and deploying virtual software systems
- Experience developing and deploying hardware emulation capabilities
- Experience developing and deploying modeling and simulation capabilities
- Experience conducting system of systems (SoS) integration, especially within a digital engineering environment
- Experience working in Agile software development processes
- Experience or knowledge working within a collaborative CI/CD development environment
- Experience with
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