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Job Information
Job title

Lead Systems & Software Integrator

Company Boeing
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Huntington Beach
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 9/5/2008
Description
Location
Huntington Beach, CA

Virtual Office/Telecommute?
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Virtual Work Not Available

Shift
First

Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys

Division
Networks & Space Systems

Program
Combat Systems

Occupation Title
Systems Engineering

Skills Management Title
Comm & Networks Sys Engrg

Job Classification
6K8CP6

Job Type
Non-Management

Experience Level
Senior Level (15+ years of experience)

Exemption Status
Exempt

Union
No

Security Clearance Required?
[link removed] (Security Clearance definitions)
Current Secret - US Citizenship Required

Work Eligibility Required?
Yes

US Person Status Required?
Yes

Export Control Required?
Yes

Relocation Money Available?
Yes

Date Posted
08/29/2008

Closing Date
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11/24/2008

Position Description
Lead the Future Combat Systems Lead System Integrators Software Horizontal Integration Team. The team is responsible for the coordination with Systems and Software suppliers to ensure interfaces are correctly flowed and decomposed into supplier specifications, and with hardware/software integrators within the LSI to ensure the interfaces are correctly implemented. Resolve technical interface issues as necessary to ensure proper interface definition. Candidate will need to work with the customer, other IPT software engineering teams, and software development partners to horizontally and vertically integrate the systems and software interfaces. Represent the Software and Distributed Systems Integration (SDSI) team in management and system/software engineering discussions and major reviews. Provide leadership and guidance on software interfaces to the full FCS LSI Team. Represent SDSI in the FCS SCCB Interface and Data Pre Board.

Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Collaboration

Functions as an enterprise role model in working effectively and cooperatively with other fellow senior team leaders, executives, senior managers and internal employees; establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving fellow team leaders and senior managers and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Provides assistance and/or thought leadership to fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers and internal employees when doing so would benefit the organization.
[ + ] Communication

Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Widely recognized as an enterprise wide expert in consistently keeping the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even the most advanced and complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently and proactively seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Proactively attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Regularly mentors and advises fellow senior team leaders on effective communication techniques.
[ + ] Customer Focus

Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs; sets up customer feedback systems to gauge customer satisfaction and makes adjustments to service as indicated by feedback.
[ + ] Decision Making

Consistently and proactively recognizes a wide range of highly complex, advanced, and specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Consistently identifies the need for and proactively researches information to better understand advanced issues, problems, and opportunities. Is widely recognized as an enterprise wide level expert in integrating complex, advanced information from a variety of sources; detects unusually complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Proactively guides others in creating relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Consistently formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Consistently includes fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers, internal employees, and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
[ + ] Initiating Action

Consistently takes immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation in own or other work area. Guides and advises others in implementing new, highly advanced ideas or potential solutions without prompting; does not wait for others to take action or to request action. Consistently takes action that goes well beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives.
[ + ] Project Management

Recognized industry expertise in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for extremely complicated and significant projects. Directs and manages the most complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrates and directs multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. As an enterprise role model, demonstrates ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide or extremely complex large-scale projects. Mentors senior project leaders to help them identify and resolve issues to ensure successful completion of projects.
Technical
[ + ] Engineering Judgment

Exercises highly advanced, expert engineering judgment in developing appropriate decisions considering decision criteria, implications, and possible consequences, to ensure product design integrity. Demonstrates understanding of the applicable scientific and engineering knowledge and routinely includes industry-wide subject matter experts to obtain good information for the engineering decision-making process.
[ + ] Network Systems

Highly advanced, expert knowledge of network communication concepts, principles and architectures, associated with network planning, design, integration and maintenance. End-to-end knowledge of network transport technologies, systems, environments, services, protocols, performance monitoring and diagnostic analysis.
[ + ] System Integration/Design

Highly advanced, expert ability to build computing systems from a variety of components to provide a business solution, including the ability to integrate application components and databases across computing platforms.
[ + ] Systems Design Engr Principles

Highly advanced, expert knowledge of systems design and scientific principles to develop, design, analyze, test, and validate solutions for complex systems and sub-systems.

Education and/or Experience
Degree and typical experience in engineering classification: Bachelor's and 20 or more years' experience, Master's with 18 or more years' experience or PhD with 15 or more years' experience. Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Other Job related information
Strong leadership ability and flexibility is required, along with at least 10 years of management/leadership experience. Systems and software engineering experience in the specification, interface definition, design, implementation, integration and verification of complex software-intensive systems are required. The ability to quickly drive technical and programmatic issues to closure will be necessary to complement this background. Current Top Secret Clearance preferred. Moderate Travel is anticipated.df-tc

Experience/Skills
See above

Other desired skills:
Lead Systems & Software Integrator
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