Program Chief Engineer
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Local
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CACI's Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) is comprises a 1,300+ person staff based at numerous CONUS and OCONUS locations. The majority of the ASG workforce maintains TS/SCI clearances and holds technical degrees with significant experience serving and developing not only highly specialized systems for DoD, national, and civilian customers, but architecting, delivering, and sustaining end-to-end mission solutions worldwide.
- The National Solutions division develops, fields, operates, and sustains RF collection systems and specializes in geolocation, advanced SIGINT processing, analysis, and reporting systems for national customers.
- The Tactical Solutions division focuses on developing, delivering, and sustaining SIGINT systems for worldwide fielded forces, including traditional data collection, analysis, and reporting to cognitive early warning/electronic attack and fixed and mobile counter-UAS (c-UAS) systems.
- The Space Operations and Resiliency division provides operations, sustainment, and modernization support to a worldwide network of ground-to-space antennas; develops leading-edge enterprise ground solutions; and provides onsite operational support to launch, on-orbit, and space battle management for DoD, national, and civilian customers.
CACI is currently looking for a talented Program Chief Engineer to join our C-UAS Division, within the National Security and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) sector supporting the Advanced Solutions Group. NSIS is CACI’s center for innovation, creating and delivering technology-centric solutions to enable missions deemed critical to protecting and preserving our national security interests globally.
We leverage the latest technologies to design and develop innovative solutions that provide our customers a tactical advantage through information warfare and electronic battlespace dominance. Our client engagement processes, the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose us and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.
What You'll Get To Do:
The Program Chief Engineer will play a critical leadership role in supporting the future growth and execution of CACI’s Tactical SIGINT business. Responsible for defining system architecture standards; oversight of system / HW / SW architecture design, documentation, and evolution. This candidate must have excellent written and oral communications skills and must be able to effectively interface with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. They should have strong collaboration skills, be able to manage multiple, potentially conflicting, assignments, while ensuring accuracy, adherence to documentation standards, and timely delivery of all work products.
More About the Role:
The Program Chief Engineer provides the vision, strategy, and leadership to drive innovation and new capabilities into CACI’s EW pursuits and programs. They will work closely with program leadership to inform and influence CACI’s market strategy, roadmap and new business pursuits. This executive will be highly visible to internal leadership and is identified as the company’s technical lead with external mission stakeholders. This executive can be chosen to be the program manager of technical programs as pursuits and qualifications may evolve.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establishes program technical baseline.
- Tailors engineering processes to meet SOW requirements and ensures they are captured in CDRLs (SEMP, SDP, HDP, CMP, etc.)
- Chairs program Engineering Review Board
- Serves as technical lead for ROMB.
- Works with Disciplines Leads to identify leads and assign staff.
- Works with PM to develop technical organizational structure.
- Approves initial technical baseline
- Approves changes to technical approach that do not involve cost or schedule
- Serve as a catalyst for continuous process improvement to realize development efficiencies, increase quality and accelerate speed to mission.
- Coach, educate, and indoctrinate as necessary the development team, the management team, and the mission customer (stakeholders and users) in processes and procedures needed to achieve mission success in concert with the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) v2.0 and DoD Standard 2167A (Defense Systems Software Development).
- Participate in alternative analysis, planning, definition, high-level and low-level design, integration and formal test of new technologies and their corresponding applications.
- Support the creation, publication and presentation of technical briefs, transition briefs, white papers and proposals.
- Mentor teams and build skills to strengthen technical capacity across the organization.
- Support Engineering Review Boards, Program Management Reviews, system demonstrations, formal test events and other technical interchange meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure the technology roadmap is executed efficiently and effectively by highlighting technical risks, staffing requirements, and other dependencies.
- Ensure the use of systems engineering principles in the design, development and delivery of assigned programs.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in engineering or related field of study required
- At least 10 years of relevant experience
- Leadership experience on a large-scale, multi-domain integration program (i.e. Program Manager, Chief Technologist, Chief Architect, Chief Engineer or Lead Systems Engineer)
- Strong customer and user relations skills as well as experience at technical interchange meetings and representing the organization in technical matters
- Experience conducting system architecture, engineering, analytical, and trade study activities using structured techniques in alignment with established Department of Defense standards to include DoDAF
- Experience guiding a capability from concept through to a developed/delivered solution
- Experience establishing and maintaining working relationship with all levels of the corporate organization
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Must possess a current Top Secret/SCI clearance
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Understanding of software defined radio systems including receiver architectures, software channelization, modulation/demodulation techniques, spectral analysis, and/or error-correcting codes.
- Experience working large, system of systems design and development to include ACAT-level programs.
- Experience establishing and executing an agile software factory to deliver exceptional results to customers
What We Can Offer You:
- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
- For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Company Overview:
CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$119,800 - $263,600
