VP Of Engineering- Defense

Description

Directs the strategic design, acquisition, management, and implementation of an enterprise-wide technology infrastructure. Monitors and analyzes technology and trends that could improve the company's products and performance. Establishes technology standards and communicates technical information to the organization. Leads hardware and software solution design efforts, including internal teams and subcontractors, as part of capture efforts and ongoing product and solution development. Leads efforts to craft technical value proposition statements and proposal technical approaches necessary to promote the organization and its offerings to key stakeholders. Manages relationships with key customers and stakeholders responsible for the organization's most significant ongoing programs and serves as the primary point of contact for ongoing growth in these areas. Leverages knowledge of the technical state of the industry and the competitive landscape to inform capture strategies and guide development efforts to maintain/grow key market positions. Leads oral presentations to advocate for the organization and its offerings as part of the competitive award and capture processes.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Leads cross-functional development and product support teams executing multiple high-profile efforts with significant customer, subcontractor, and industry partner management responsibilities

• Work with business leadership to develop multi-year technology and product roadmaps to ensure "one vision" for execution

• Provide high level technical oversight for solution design, project delivery, and incident/problem management

• Manage technical facility leadership and engineering teams

• Maintain, manage, and grow business relationships with key group and business unit executives as a trusted and strategic technology partner

• Evaluate and recommend new products

• Partner with business stakeholders to manage infrastructure costs associated with annual operating plan delivery

• Ultimately responsible for the development, delivery, and support, at scale, of an ecosystem of technology and extended reality (XR) driven solutions on premises at DoD and industry locations across the U.S.

• Manages the integration of delivered on-premises technologies with cloud-based technologies offered by a consortium of other providers

• Leads the application of information system security DoD Authority to Operate process requirements at DoD training facilities, achieving several key first-in-industry outcomes

• Largest contributor of production code within the organization

• Directly contributes to software and hardware development efforts in targeted areas (e.g., XR, emulated hardware, physics models) to address key capability or schedule challenges

• Implements and manages Agile development processes within the Advanced Technology business unit and works with IT staff to leverage the latest associated software tools

• Displays a high degree of collaboration with leadership and Business sectors and teams to provide the right level of agility within a defined delivery process

• Exhibits strong leadership skills, forward thinking, self-motivation, and able to work effectively in a diverse, highly talented team, continuously striving for excellence

• Ensure that all performance goals for product lines are met

Competencies

• Good Communication Skills

• Solution Design

• Virtual / Extended Reality

• Algorithms

• Technical & Business Hiring & Mentoring

• Business Team Interfacing

• Agile Process Implementation

• Technical Road Map Development

• Cost/Effort/Schedule Planning

• Proposals

• Product Championship

• Relationship Management

• Production Code

• Product Vision

• Scientific Publications

Supervisory Responsibility

This position supervises technical staff at multiple levels (around 10 FTES).

Skills

Solution architecture, leadership, computer engineering

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Must have interest and desire to support the DoD.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Hours of work consistent with the executive level of the position are expected.

If not local - must be in either Huntsville or Orlando and willing to travel.

Required Education, Experience, and Skills:

• Advanced degree (Masters, Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent

• C, C++, C#

• MSVC, GNU toolchain, Git, SVN, LLVM (Mac OS/X & Android / Android NDK)

• Most major consumer and enterprise XR hardware and software elements

• Unreal & Unity game engines, multiple flight simulators, and DoD image generators/hosts

• Experience with DoD or commercial aviation contracts, Cyber security/RMF, and Proposal support/development preferred

• Experience with game engines, image generators, and/or flight simulation frameworks (e.g., Unreal, VBS, VRSH, NOR, MSFS, Prepar3D, or X-Plane a plus

• Active Secret Security Clearance preferred

• 15+ years of related experience

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

• Advanced degree (Masters, Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent

• Degrees in multiple technical subjects

Experience Level

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.