Technical Program Manager
Date: Apr 25, 2024
Location: Suffolk, VA, Virginia, United States
Company: HII's Mission Technologies division
Requisition Number: 17746
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Security Clearance: Secret
Level of Experience: Management
This opportunity resides with Live, Virtual, Constructive Solutions, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. As a trusted partner to our military customers, we design, develop and operate systems that bring together service members from across the globe to help you train like you fight, because we understand that preparation requires full coordination—not readiness in piece parts.
Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.
Job Description
The Joint Staff is responsible for training military forces to respond to crises around the globe. From armed conflict to providing humanitarian support after natural disasters, this force relies on joint training across all military branches, Combatant Commands, and Components to be ready to respond at a moment’s notice. Globally integrated training technologies help prepare senior leaders to make decisions in complex environments, strategically integrate operations and resources globally, and develop a force capable of competing and winning against any adversary or triumph in any disaster.
Huntington Ingalls Industries supports the Joint Staff in building the technical capabilities that this force relies on. We develop exercise planning, data, and simulation systems that mimic real life environments and weapons systems. These simulation environments are integrated with live tactical capabilities so warfighters can train using the exact same systems they use in the fight. Our current efforts unify these capabilities seamlessly with our modern web architecture and provide a model for ensuring long-term evolution to keep pace with the constantly evolving technical landscape. Our efforts in the areas of containerized and scalable solutions, continuous delivery pipelines, modernized data integration, and next generation simulation solutions ensures that what we deliver satisfies the needs of our customer today, tomorrow, and well into the future.
Our team is looking for a principal engineering manager to help coordinate the schedule of development and resources in support of these tools and capabilities. We need a passionate and talented Principal Engineering manager to be a part of our fast-paced, rapidly growing, user-driven development team that is focused on coordinating, scheduling, managing, and messaging our work on these solutions. You will aide in the orchestration and alignment across this team which is composed of software engineering, data sciences, cloud and datacenter engineering as well as simulation systems integration engineering disciplines to deliver unified solutions
Essential Job Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer Manager, you will drive schedules across the program that deliver enterprise value in support of the Joint Staff J7 long-term vision. You will work directly with senior government leadership across the enterprise and manage the long-term technical roadmap for the Joint Staff. Our software and engineering product managers will work with you to develop schedules for integrated product roadmaps that deliver needed enterprise capability. You will also be responsible for briefing our greater enterprise roadmap out to external partners to support collaboration on enterprise integrations that enhance the use and employment of our system to better support the Joint Training community.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: 14 Years with Bachelors in Science; 12 Years with Masters; 9 Years with PhD
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or related discipline
- 6+ years of experience in the industry as a technical team lead, technical project or program manager
- Educational requirements may be adjusted for applicable work experience. Work experience may be adjusted for highly specialized knowledge or uniquely applicable experience
- Basic understanding of system architecture and experience with distributed systems and full-stack modern web application architectures
- Experience managing coordinated portfolio roadmaps across multiple development programs
- Strong communication skills that help senior leaders to successfully work with our program to achieve enterprise goals
Preferred Requirements
- Training, certification or coursework related to project and program management.
- Experience in distributed DoD modeling and simulation capabilities and architectures; DIS, HLA, TENA.
- Experience in DoD C4I systems and protocols. E.g. GCCS, Link-16, CEC
- Experience utilizing Agile methodologies and principles as well as Agile frameworks
- Experience with collaboration, development tracking, and version control systems such as Confluence, Jira, and Git
- Understanding of greater DoD training, tactics and operations or familiarity with these from the perspective of an individual Service or Agency.
Physical Requirements
Preferred onsite support with telework authorized to support work flexibility and to help candidate ensure efficient and effective task completion
Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our diverse workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.
Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.
Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
Today’s challenges are bigger than ever, and the nation needs the best of us. It’s why we’re focused on hiring, developing and nurturing our diversity. We believe that diversity among our workforce strengthens the organization, stimulates creativity, promotes the exchange of ideas and enriches the work lives of all our employees.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to buildyourcareer@hii-co.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #3 for HII Technical Solutions.