TECHNICAL DIRECTOR FOR NEXT GENERATION INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Summary This is the senior leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide technical alignment, delivery, and governance of integrated weapon system capabilities across the Department of War (DoW). The incumbent leads a portfolio of efforts that connect development, testing, and fielding of advanced capabilities across the Services, Program Incumbent Offices (PEOs), and supporting agencies, ensuring warfighter requirements are met with timely, affordable, and operationally relevant solutions. Duties - Manages enterprise technical integration of multi-domain weapon system development and delivery, ensuring seamless synchronization across Services, acquisition pathways, and functional organizations. Leads the enterprise to integrate diverse technical solutions, including radar systems, interceptors, command and control networks, and space-based assets, with a focus on minimizing integration risks and maximizing system-level performance. - Directs technical development and integration activities that support coordinated testing and fielding of critical capabilities under compressed timelines and emerging threat conditions. Drives technical risk management, system-of-systems engineering principles, and the ability to make informed system-level trade-off decisions under pressure. - Develops and implements robust department level technical integration processes and performance metrics that provide visibility across all technical and operational dimensions to ensure sound engineering principles, reflect the actual integrated system performance, and be designed to identify potential integration issues early in the development cycle. - Establishes and manages formal governance structures, including Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), technical reviews and assessments, and cross-service technical working groups. Ensures this governance structure includes appropriate technical expertise, particularly in system-of-systems engineering and integration and to provide a forum for rigorous technical review and system-level trade-off analysis. - Defines roles, responsibilities, and decision authorities to ensure effective technical integration and resolution of technical challenges across organizational boundaries including establishing clear lines of technical authority and accountability for integration efforts and ensuring that integration issues are resolved at the appropriate level. - Develops and maintains reporting frameworks and dashboards that provide real-time insight into execution status, capability alignment, kill web performance, and risk posture. Guides the development of dashboards to present technical data in a clear and concise manner, focusing on key system-of-systems performance metrics, and enabling informed decision making regarding integration strategies and resource allocation. - Delivers routine reports, performance assessments, and strategic updates to agency leadership, OSW, and external oversight bodies. Produces products that articulate complex technical issues, including system-of-systems tradeoffs, to non-technical audiences. - Leads the design, refinement, and analysis of system-of-systems kill webs across all domains (air, land, sea, space, cyber, and electromagnetic spectrum) requiring a deep understanding of kill chain analysis, sensor shooter pairing, command and control architectures, and the ability to optimize kill web performance through system-level trade-off studies. - Guides architecture development efforts that integrate sensors, shooters, command-and-control, and effectors into resilient and adaptive kill chains. Leads the technical community to ensure that these architectures are robust, scalable, adaptable to evolving threats, and designed to facilitate seamless integration of diverse components. - Oversees mission-level modeling and simulation to assess kill web performance against peer and near-peer threats, enabling threat-informed acquisition and capability trade-offs. Produces assessments and interprets results of these simulations, understands their limitations, and makes informed recommendations regarding system design, deployment, and system-level trade-offs to improve kill web effectiveness. - Guides enterprise-level risk management processes across programs, mission areas, and kill webs, with a particular focus on integration risks and system-of-systems vulnerabilities. - Leads enterprise trade space assessments, recommending risk-adjusted strategies for schedule recovery, capability off-ramps, or reallocation of investment to maximize mission outcomes. These recommendations must be based on rigorous system-level trade studies that consider cost, schedule, performance, and risk across the entire enterprise. - Serves as the technical authority for risk review boards and collaborates with independent technical authorities to validate risk mitigation plans and system-level trade-off decisions. The Incumbent must be able to challenge technical assumptions, ensure that risk mitigation plans are realistic and effective, and that system-level trade-offs are justified by quantifiable improvements in overall system performance. Requirements Conditions of employment Work Schedule: Full Time Must be a U.S. citizen Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply) Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation. Must be able to obtain/maintain Special Sensitive/Top Secret SCI clearance. Designated and/or random drug testing is required Financial Disclosure: Senior Leaders are required to comply with the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act, PL 95-521, which requires the submission of a financial disclosure statement (OGE-278), upon assuming an ST position. Senior Leader are required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment," (OF 306), prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background check. Overtime: None Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Tour of Duty: Set Schedule Telework: Not telework eligible Qualifications Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position; you must show that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ) within your resume - NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES. Resumes exceeding two pages will be disqualified. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ): All applicants must be able to address accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications in a structured interview assessment: Extensive knowledge and experience with providing strategic planning and technical management of major acquisition development programs, including the ability to review, analyze and resolve complex technological issues for major defense weapon system programs, with a particular focus on system-of-systems integration. Experienced in leading technical teams to integrate diverse sensor systems (ground, sea, space), applying systems engineering, risk management, interface control, and system-level trade studies to optimize performance within system-of-systems architectures. Education Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this position. Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional. 1 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Additional information REEMPLOYED ANNUITANTS: The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: DoDI 1400.25-V300. ACQUISITION POSITION: This position requires a Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Engineering and Technical Management, Advanced acquisition certification. Certification prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 48 months after entry into this position. For information regarding the DAWIA Back to Basics please visit: Home (dau.edu) or Back to Basics - ful Resources (dau.edu) DAWIA (Back to Basics) Certification: CAP: Position is a DoD Critical Acquisition Position & requires DoD Acquisition Engineering and Technical Management, Advanced acquisition certification. The incumbent has 48 months to achieve this certification. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years and sign a written agreement to remain in Federal service in the position for at least three years. Click here for more details and Resources. The Incumbent must complete 80 continuous learning points every two years. Travel to national and international locations may be required. Travel to national and international locations may be required. Veterans preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service. Applications MUST be submitted through USAJobs. Education: An undergraduate degree in Engineering from an accredited University and at least ten years' experience in the development and test of complex weapon systems is mandatory. A Masters or PhD in an Engineering or technical management discipline is desired. Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. 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