Chief Architect (Systems Engineer, Chief)

Redwire, via our Oakman, LLC business unit, is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Join our team of innovators and get a chance to work alongside a team of talented, curious people that are passionate about designing and deploying solutions that are accelerating humanity’s expansion into space.

We have a current opportunity for a Chief Architect , HYBRID-Chantilly VA office . This role leverages your extensive mission and advanced systems design experience for end-to-end spacecraft systems and payloads. You’ll serve as senior technical leader for new mission and systems concepts driving growth and guiding technology advancements to attract and win major new business, as well as supporting programs with prompt start-up to ensure efficient execution.

Responsibilities

· Serve as senior technical leader to the business to develop mission concepts for spacecraft and mission development

· Leverage system design and modeling tools to support end-to-end systems engineering, program plans, schedules, and costing

· Provide thought leadership within Redwire, with our partners, and across industry

· Generate quantifiable requirements based on customer objectives, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics

· Ensure requirements comply with mission objectives and government standards through formal verification methods

· Translate high-level customer objectives, business cases, architectures, and spacecraft development strategies into system requirement specifications and work across engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements

· Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall system development.

· Design interfaces and bring system elements together, so they work as a whole, meeting customer requirements while being competitive

· Efficiently develop cost and schedule competitive technical solutions – drawing on internal and partner expertise

· Develop concepts in schedule, budget, and performance constrained environment

· Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures

· Use MBSE tools and techniques to rapidly develop detailed mission concepts to bid for new business

· Serve as customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements

· Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts

· Mentor, coach, train, guide, direct and advise junior staff

· Recognize and mitigate technical issues and risks while operating within budget and on schedule

· Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse community of engineers and managers to achieve the goals of the program team

Ideal Experience

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other space-related discipline
• Minimum of 18 years’ experience with a Bachelors, with space industry including design and development of spacecraft and/or space flight hardware.
• Demonstrated experience with Spacecraft development, deployment and operations.
• Must have a well-rounded System Level approach with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Must have experience using design tools, including Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Extensive experience with space systems engineering including an understanding of space vehicle design, space system / ground system architecture development, and space missions and operations development.
• Extensive understanding of interdisciplinary systems engineering challenges, with a strong ability to see the “big picture” in complex projects.
• Exceptional skill in analyzing requirements and data to quickly understand problems, define solution spaces, communicate actionable options, and recommend clear paths forward.
• Proficient in managing competing requirements, balancing trade-offs, and optimizing solutions based on project-specific priorities.
• Ability to travel - an average of 30% travel may be required. Most of the travel is domestic but some international travel may be required.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Must have US Citizenship

Desired Skills

· M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other space-related discipline.

· Demonstrated experience with Spacecraft development, deployment and operations.

· Recognized industry subject matter expert (SME) with a proven record of innovation and impact.

· Experience in the full product development lifecycle, including rapid design, analysis, fabrication, and testing, progressing concepts to flight-ready systems.

· Proven success in building and leading multidisciplinary teams to define and plan complex projects.

· Creator of innovative solutions to complex technical challenges, drawing on broad experience and insight across diverse subject areas.

· Proficient with Microsoft Office 365, including SharePoint and Teams. Microsoft Project experience a plus.

· Proficient with MBSE tools.

· Active TS/SCI Clearance.