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Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.\nResponsibilities for this Position\nLeadership Scope\nProvide direct supervision for assigned personnel, including individual contributors embedded on product teams and, as organizationally assigned, team or technical managers within the function. In this matrixed environment, staff may support multiple programs and receive day-to-day task direction from program leadership while this role retains functional people-leadership accountability.\nTranslate department vision and approved priorities into clear functional objectives, operating mechanisms, talent plans, and execution expectations in coordination with the Senior Engineering Manager and engineering leadership.\nDevelop, train, and coordinate assigned managers and team leads so that they consistently apply leadership expectations, approved workforce plans, technical standards, performance practices, and employee-development approaches.\nPartner with business, program, and engineering leaders to maintain visibility to functional capability and staffing needs across multiple programs; recommend actions that support near-term program commitments and approved growth priorities.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nLead the Software function responsible for the architecture, development, integration, verification, release, and sustainment of mission-critical airborne software across assigned programs and product lines.\nDevelop and maintain the functional demand and capacity view for Software, using program forecasts, skills needs, utilization, attrition, and approved initiatives to identify staffing gaps and recommend hiring, development, or deployment actions.\nCoordinate approved requisition planning, candidate selection, onboarding, internal movement, and staffing deployment to place the right capability on the right work at the right time.\nLead performance management and employee development for direct reports; contribute to department talent calibration, succession planning, recognition, retention, and the identification and growth of future technical and people leaders.\nProvide technical leadership and establish execution expectations that align assigned product work, program commitments, and software engineering practices.\nEnsure software work products, processes, and objective evidence comply with applicable customer, program, quality, safety, cybersecurity, configuration-management, and airworthiness requirements.\nDrive strong software engineering practices, including requirements traceability, architecture, modular design, peer review, automated build and test, configuration management, defect prevention, and integration readiness.\nPartner with Systems, FPGA, Hardware, Test, Cybersecurity, Quality, Program Management, and business leaders to coordinate interfaces, dependencies, staffing recommendations, technical risk, and delivery commitments.\nUse objective measures to monitor execution and support continuous improvement, including demand-versus-capacity, staffing fulfillment, schedule performance, technical maturity, test coverage, defect trends, rework, and release readiness.\nLead technical reviews and contribute to estimates, make/buy decisions, technology roadmaps, bid and proposal activity, and continuous improvement.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant engineering and supervisory experience; 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escalates early and drives practical closure.\nOperates with integrity, sound judgment, and disciplined stewardship of customer commitments and company resources.\nSalary Note\nThis estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). 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