SDA Data & C2 Engineer (Project Leader/ Sr. Project Leader)

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

Job Summary

Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers’ portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation. Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems.

The Enterprise Data and Digital Solutions team is focused on integrating a large portfolio of digital technologies across the USSF enterprise to provide near term solutions to our customer’s pressing information system challenges. The Global Mission Data Dominance (GMDD) Branch is tasked with supporting the Space Enterprise in developing data distribution, storage, and networks to support the war in space. This Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Data & Command Control (C2) Engineer (Project Leader or Senior Project Leader- Software Architecture Engineering and Cloud Computing Architecture) role is a technical position actively engaged in Aerospace’s support to this Space Systems Command program office.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Colorado Springs, CO.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Providing Aerospace support to the Global Mission Data Dominance Branch and the Unified Data Library program. This a key position with the potential to shape both the Space Force thinking and future corporate activities in the management of Space Data.

• Working in a fast-paced environment with geographically dispersed teams across the Space Enterprise

• Activities will include leading projects, evaluating contractor designs, shepherding the integration of key data sets, prototyping new technologies, and provided strategic inputs that enables the larger space community

• The following activities encompass the broad responsibilities for a Senior Project Leader. A Project Leader, with less experience, is expected to contribute to many of the activities but with more guidance from management.

• Act as spokesperson for working groups, advising the customer including GMDD Branch leadership in formulating, evaluating, and overseeing understanding of system requirements and system engineering practices 

• Operate strategically by providing insight to Aerospace leadership and the customer on risks, issues, opportunities and associated mitigation strategies and corrective actions 

• Deliver results by ensuring successful execution of systems integration efforts between space, ground, and the integration of segments across of the GMDD portfolio

• Shaping the future with requirements definition for GMDD systems including development, coordination, and approval of system capability documents, system requirements documents, and interface control documents 

• Assessing mission trades between segments and products for system-level design reviews to help identify optimal systems architecture designs 

• Maintaining effective working relationships with customer leadership, capability-delivering contractors, Aerospace engineering teams and other program office support organizations, including the creation of technical materials and the ability to present to key stakeholders and senior leaders 

• Deliver results in leading diverse teams in the execution of the systems engineering, integration, and test responsibilities, to include the coordination of subject matter experts and t