Engineering Tech Lead

​Requisition Number: 21714 

Required Travel: 0 - 10% 

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $81,973.00 - $100,000.00 

Security Clearance: Secret 

Level of Experience: Mid 

 

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

 

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Job Description

 

Mission Technologies, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is looking for a qualified individual to fill the role of a Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) Engineering Technical Lead for their LVC Solutions Group (LSG). This person works in support of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVCt) training events, the Navy Training Baseline (NTB), and the NCTE, providing technical leadership in the planning and execution of LVCt events. This position is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia customer sites. 

 

Additionally, position requires flexibility as duties and responsibilities may be adjusted to meet business, customer, and contractual requirements.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Serves as Engineering Technical Lead for NCTE training events. In this role, the technical lead collaborates with the operational event lead for the training event technical requirements and collaborates with the operations and engineering departments to ensure these event requirements are met.  
• Collaborates with operations and engineering leads to build integrated project teams (IPTs) and manning plans to support NCTE training events.
• Collaborate with IPTs to design architectures that support specific training event requirements and documents these architectures using established diagram standards - e.g. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) SV-1 and SV-2 – using tools such as Microsoft Visio.
• Monitors the health and status of training events during execution and directs activities of the integrated project team to address any technical issues. 
• Troubleshoots LVCt system related issues and ensures training event system interfaces are configured in accordance with documented interface standards

 

 

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field OR
• 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field OR
• 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field OR
• High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Must be familiar with MS Office and Visio applications
• Must be familiar with Linux and Windows operating systems
• Should be familiar with Networking concepts, architectures, and transport technologies like TCP/I
• Experience working with Navy systems and/or commands desirable but not mandatory
• Proficient in technical report writing
• Must have technical leadership ability.
• During LVCt event execution, must be able to address technical issues by understanding which engineering domain problems belong to and then assign engineers from the appropriate domains to resolve issues.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be comfortable communicating at various levels of the organization. This may involve lower level technical collaboration on issues with assigned engineers or high level explanation of issues and/or status updates with senior leaders
• CompTIA Security + certification is required for the position
• Must currently hold and be able to maintain a US Secret clearance

Preferred Requirements

 

• Knowledge of Distributed Simulation protocols such as High Level Architecture (HLA) and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is desired but not mandatory
• Knowledge of Navy C4I tactical systems such as Link 16 and GCCS  is desired but not mandatory

 

Physical Requirements

Office, industrial, or shipboard environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and ext