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You will work daily with senior Government leads, SETA teammates, and development contractors to baseline new capabilities, assess emerging technologies, shape architectural decisions, and ensure readiness of mission-critical ground services.\nKey Responsibilities to include:\nSupport end-to-end engineering and analysis across GEOINT ground mission threads, ensuring technical and operational coherence from collection tasking through mission processing and product delivery.\nSupport definition, decomposition, and baseline of GEOINT ground capabilities, including requirements, CONOPS, interfaces, sequencing, and dependency mapping.\nProvide technical oversight of contractor development, integration, and verification activities to ensure alignment with Government requirements and architectural direction.\nAnalyze operational workflows, identify performance gaps, and recommend enhancements to improve mission throughput, resiliency, and automation.\nSupport technical reviews, test events, readiness milestones, and enterprise integration activities to validate capability delivery and operational suitability.\nMaintain cognizance of GEOINT mission projects, including baselines, schedules, interdependencies, risks, and cost drivers across the Ground Enterprise.\nConduct trade studies, evaluate emerging technologies, and shape future GEOINT ground architectures, including cloud-native modernization and service-based designs.\nEvaluate impacts to cost, schedule, performance, and risk across mission threads and recommend mitigation strategies.\nReview contractor proposals, technical reports, design artifacts, and program plans for feasibility, compliance, and alignment with enterprise priorities.\nCoordinate across Government, SETA, FFRDC, and contractor teams to ensure alignment with strategic priorities, operational needs, and enterprise performance standards.\n Required Education & Experience\nBachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. 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