Title:  Mission Solutions Group Engineer - Sr Principal, Business Development

Job Title:  Mission Solutions Group Engineer – Sr Principal, Business Development

Job Code:  31249

Job Location:  Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:  

 The Mission Solutions Ground (MSG) Engineer provides strategic technical leadership to draw on L3Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3Harris and its customers. MSG is the technical interface between L3Harris and our customers’ engineering staff, supporting the Business Areas in the creation of new business opportunities, drawing upon capabilities utilized across multiple business areas and technologies. The successful MSG Engineer will engage with customer, engineering, operations, and management personnel to define and document the customer’s CONOPS and requirements, perform trade studies, engage L3Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk, and lead resulting proposal efforts. An MSG engineer considers all of the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, in a manner that creates trust. During program planning and initial execution, the MSG engineer is the technical advocate and voice of the customer during program reviews.  This role requires experience in systems engineering, system architecture development, competitive assessment, project engineering management and development program execution.

The MSG Engineer should be a subject matter expert in multiple technical domains with an entrepreneurial background.  This individual will work closely with business area leads and senior management to develop and respond to customer needs with technical presentations, white papers and proposals; requests for proposals, information and broad agency announcements; and provide expert guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts.  Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work within a large engineering enterprise and with external partners are required.

Essential Functions: 

• Interpretation of customers’ mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market
  • Advocates the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders
  • Builds business case and manages discretionary resources
  • Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to new business opportunities
  • Performs technical and management competitive assessments to clearly communicate why and how the new business opportunities provide value to L3Harris and the customer
• Evaluates customer and /operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
  • Synthesis and life cycle ownership of mission architecture
  • Generation of the initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Operational Descriptions Document (ODD)
  • Generation of initial system architecture views; decomposing opportunity to addressable configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
• Leads the development of appropriate solutions to customer needs
  • Demonstrates broad and deep technical knowledge; accesses SMEs as needed
  • Determines whether requirements can be met with existing capabilities/designs or if new design requirements must be developed
  • Leads and coordinates various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture 
  • Assess and provide directions for making/buy decisions and selection of strategic suppliers
  • Establishes the technology integration or migration strategies
  • Leads and perform trade studies required to make both tactical and strategic technical decisions for pursuit
• Provides technical coordination between external customer engineers, industry engineers and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues
• Prepares and presents technical information that addresses specific subjects of interest
• Analyzes and develops recommendations to resolve contractual technical issues
• Maintains a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies
• Leads and coordinate pursuit activities such as technical baseline reviews, request for input (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) responses, and white papers.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience
• Proven and effective communications skills, interpersonal skills and customer focus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with functional and physical architecture development
• Experience collaborating in a team environment
• Ability to work autonomously and with others to resolve technical issues
• Must be able to obtain US Government Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills: 

• MS or Doctoral degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (MSEE or MSCE), Imaging Science or similar discipline.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial success
• Demonstrated quick reaction technical team leadership experience
• Experience analyzing, developing, and integrating electronic systems in areas such as remote sensing, aerospace payloads, mission computing, communications, networking, robotics, and cyber / electronic warfare
• Experience working with and for Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC) — both domestic and international
• Proven technical business development skills