Federal Portfolio Deputy Technical Director
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General Atomics pioneers technologies with the potential to change the world. Behind a talented global team of engineers, GA delivers safe, sustainable, and economical solutions to meet growing global demands. Our Engineers have an opportunity to work on first of a kind product lines within an incredible, dynamic environment.
Engineering positions typically require a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience. Candidates from mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering backgrounds must know the fundamentals of engineering system developments, requirements, testing, and integration before getting to the final stages of customer interface and project management.
Schedule: Full-Time Salary
Job Level: Management
Travel: 0 - 25
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- Team Player
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Job Summary GA-Intelligence maintains and deploys production solutions, including Thresher and Dragonspell, for users across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and commercial industry. We build and develop best-in-class, all-domain, and globally focused situational awareness capabilities that process petabytes of data from numerous streaming data sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features and fuse data from multiple phenomenologies to form a rich live view of objects in the sky, on the sea, and on the ground. These analytics are designed to determine not just where something is, but what it is, where it's been, and what it's doing. All of this "data to knowledge" is made available to end users in our own browser-based application for visualization, analysis, and understanding. We always want to do more, and that's where you come in!
GA-Intelligence is looking for a Federal Deputy Technical Director
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Reports to the Federal Programs Technical Director and typically accomplishes objectives through subordinate management.
- Acts as the primary customer contact for activities and technology roadmaps for the above individual program level that span a 1-to-5-year time horizon
- Program lifecycle management
- Collaborate with the VP of Federal Programs, VP of Business Development and the Federal Programs Technical Director to evaluate new business opportunities and expand existing business opportunities based on the capacity and core competencies of the portfolio.
- Influence and review the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications
- Collaborate with the Federal Technical Director, GA-CCRi CTO, and Federal Department Leads to oversee the development of design concepts and acceptance criteria for solutions, product, and services research, development, testing, and integration.
- Represents the Federal Portfolio in relationships with customers, General Atomics organizations, partner businesses, and local community
- Develop Portfolio long-term vision
- Consults with VP of Federal Programs and executive management to develop and implement current, annual and long-term technical, business, and financial objectives for the assigned department within the federal business solutions and services.
- Participates in developing Federal Portfolio objectives and long-range forecasts that align with and enable achievement of corporate objectives
- Defines and coordinates strategy, vision, roadmaps and delivery methods across multiple solutions, products, and services while serving multiple customers.
- Influencing Federal customer roadmaps to drive future portfolio growth
- Team Leadership
- Provides direct supervision to Department Technical Lead staff members and oversee all phases of software development to include planning, managing technical performance to ensure quality, business, and financial objectives are obtained.
- Ensure technical leadership and excellence is maintained by collaborating with Department Technical Leads on the planning, attraction, selection, retention, and development of the required management, professional, and technical talent.
- Maintain the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.
Job Qualifications:
- Typically requires a bachelors, masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as thirteen or more years of software engineering experience. Equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
- Detailed and extensive technical expertise in software development including applicable engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practices
- Comprehensive project management and leadership skills that include organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones
- Ability to resolve unusually complex management and technical problems.
- Strong communication, leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required to enable an effective interface with other departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, potential customers, and government representatives.
- Customer focused, must be able to work on a self-initiated basis and in a team environment, and able to work extended hours and travel as required.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience delivering programs using SAFe Agile approaches
- Project Managment Professional (PMP) certified
- Experience delivering Tracking, Battlespace management, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies to the Federal government
Salary:$140,900 - $257,233
Benefits
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Healthcare
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Pension, 401(k)/Retirement Plans
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Competitive Pay
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Multiple product lines means a variety of work
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Paid Time Off

“The company is growing, has a very good reputation and had open positions in my area of expertise (aircraft design/design methodology development).”– Peter, Senior Staff Engineer

“We don't ascribe to quotas; we do ascribe to securing the BEST talent to enrich our culture toward healthy diversification and active/viable community service. We are STEM advocates.”– Debra, CSSBB: Staff Engineer

“Every day is different, with different problems to solve and many programs to support. I am a problem solver and have always been motivated by the tough questions.”– Scott, Laser Scientist

“I work in the Components Engineering and Obsolescence Management Dept. Our efforts are saving General Atomics several millions of dollars by proactively leading and informing the company of all these decisions which significantly impact production, sustainment and new designs.”– John, Staff Engineer
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