Program Technical Lead

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Project: We're supporting a long-time customer that works on a critical and high-visibility mission. The team is tremendously talented, and we are seeking to add a technical lead. The technical lead will have responsibilities to the customer, the portfolio, and the company. Previous experience working at a customer site in support of the DoD and the Intelligence Community is highly desirable.
Minimum Requirements:
• Must have active TS/SCI security clearance and be willing and able to obtain CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree, ideally in a STEM discipline.
• 15 years' experience in analysis, analytical methodology development, and/ or software development.
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Advanced degree in a STEM discipline.
• Significant experience in technical leadership - identifying needs, driving requirements, solutioning, etc.
• Experience supporting proposal technical volumes, writing white papers and other business development and strategic activities.
• Ability to communicate highly technical concepts at a level comprehensible to laymen and senior-level government representatives.
• Computer skills: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, ArcGIS, QGIS, Github, Jira
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+, ScrumMaster
Day-to-day: In this role you will be the technical lead of a critical Intelligence Community (IC) mission. Your primary focus will be on leading analytical methodology development efforts that can include all analytical intelligence disciplines (e.g., GEOINT, MASINT, OSINT, etc.). You will also assist with technical leadership requirements for software/systems engineering efforts, as needed. You will identify areas for improvement and propose/design solutions to address those improvements, particularly data-driven solutions. You will use your communication skills to drive requirements and tasking, get buy-in from Government stakeholders, inspire your colleagues to work toward common goals, and mentor more junior employees. You will work closely with counterparts across the IC, DIE and Maxar to help identify technologies and methodologies we can bring to bear in support of our customer.
Career: We're very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.
In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $139,000.00 - $231,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
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