Position Description

ENSCO Inc. is a diverse engineering and technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions supporting mission success, safety, and security for government and commercial customers worldwide.

We are seeking a Senior System Integration to work directly with Government mission leaders and independently governed program teams delivering elements of a critical space mission capability. Each participating organization may hold a different architecture vision, acquisition path, technical baseline, funding profile, and delivery schedule.

This role creates trusted relationships and shared technical evidence needed to bring those efforts together.

The leader will define the mission-level integration objective, make interdependencies visible, and influence programs to accelerate, sequence, narrow, pause, or protect work so critical elements converge at a common integration and fielding window. The focus is not scheduling compliance for its own sake; it is synchronized delivery of a usable warfighter capability with clear ownership, open decision logic, and risk retired at the earliest practical point. Government decision owners retain all formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• Establish the shared mission outcome. Translate operational need into an integrated capability outcome, mission threads, measurable effects, time-to-field targets, decision points, and minimum evidence required for commitment.
• Converge competing architecture visions. Create a fact-based forum where participating programs can reconcile different end states, boundaries, interfaces, data flows, standards, and technical assumptions into decision-ready alternatives and a coherent mission architecture.
• Build trusted technical relationships. Earn credibility with program leaders, operators, acquisition teams, technical authorities, cybersecurity teams, test organizations, logistics teams, and industry partners; understand what each team must protect before asking it to change course.
• Influence without formal authority. Use mission impact, transparent evidence, and reciprocal commitments to align autonomous programs around shared decisions while preserving each organization's accountability for its own execution.
• Synchronize portfolio timing. Map program milestones, critical paths, integration dependencies, funding decisions, contract actions, test resources, facilities, training, cybersecurity, production, and transition activities against a common mission delivery window.
• Recommend acceleration and deliberate pacing. Identify where a program should accelerate, resequenced, narrow an increment, protect schedule margin, or deliberately slow activity so interfaces, evidence, resources, and operational users are ready at the same point in time.
• Create integration agreements. Define interface ownership, data exchanges, configuration boundaries, integration entry and exit criteria, decision rights, evidence owners, escalation paths, and commitment dates that teams can execute.
• Design rapid integration learning. Plan focused demonstrations, interface tests, mission-thread events, digital integration activities, and knowledge points that expose incompatibility and weak assumptions before expensive commitment.
• Preserve modularity and options. Advance open interfaces, modular increments, replaceable components, data-rights objectives, and competitive integration paths that reduce lock-in and allow individual programs to evolve without breaking the mission.
• Drive decision-ready trade space. Frame choices across mission effect, performance, interoperability, cost, schedule, cybersecurity, integration complexity, sustainment, time-to-field, and production scalability so leaders can act quickly.
• Maintain the integrated decision rhythm. Lead technical interchange meetings, architecture convergence sessions, dependency reviews, executive decision forums, and action follow-through; surface unresolved commitments before they become mission-level delays.
• Connect integration to fielding. Align operational acceptance, training, infrastructure, support equipment, continuity, sustainment, reconstitution, and transition activities so the combined capability is usable when delivered.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with 10+ years of progressive experience in satellite communications, space operations, radio frequency transmission systems, mission systems, information technology, or a closely related technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience integrating, modernizing, sustaining, or troubleshooting complex space, satellite control, communications, cyber, or ground mission capabilities across Government and contractor organizations.
• Technical knowledge of satellite mission operations across ground, link, and space segments, with the ability to analyze complex issues and translate findings into practical integration or sustainment actions.
• Experience directing project milestones, assigning work, monitoring completion, and coordinating technical activities across operational units, program offices, headquarters organizations, contractors, and external agencies.
• Experience coordinating planned and unplanned equipment outages, maintenance schedules, technical dependencies, configuration changes, and continuity information needed for mission and leadership decisions.
• Demonstrated success planning or leading system testing, mission system upgrades, ground-system installations, capability activation, technical acceptance, or transition to operations.
• Experience analyzing and resolving hardware, software, network, radio frequency, cyber, or interface problems that affect mission availability, performance, or integration readiness.
• Experience applying cybersecurity requirements through assessments, vulnerability testing, finding remediation, security documentation, or defensive capability implementation in a mission environment.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, build trusted relationships, influence decisions without relying on formal authority, and maintain accountability through project completion.
• Ability to maintain and communicate technical documentation, drawings, schedules, outage reports, memorandums, action items, milestone status, and factual briefings for senior leaders and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work on-site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and support periodic coordination or travel as required.
• AN ACTIVE DOD TOP SECRET CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION FOR WHICH, YOU MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Qualifications Desired:

• Direct experience with the Satellite Control Network, Global Positioning System, positioning navigation and timing, M-Code, MILSTAR, telemetry tracking and control, command and control, or space-ground mission integration.
• Experience coordinating with Government space operations units, system program offices, headquarters organizations, acquisition teams, cybersecurity authorities, test organizations, and mission partners.
• Experience leading major ground-system installations, mission-system upgrades, integrated testing, corrective-action efforts, or activation of new operational and cyber capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with satellite communications terminals, radio frequency systems, amplifiers, up and down converters, modems, antenna systems, waveguides, fiber optics, remote monitoring, test equipment, or associated technical data.
• Experience maintaining mission assurance through preventive maintenance, outage planning, technical troubleshooting, continuity management, and sustained high system availability.
• Experience managing user requirements, long-range communications plans, project schedules, technical work packages, resource decisions, or funding inputs for complex mission infrastructure.
• Experience with modular open architectures, interface standards, replaceable capability increments, data-rights objectives, or technical approaches that preserve competition and future integration options.
• Experience with commercial-first sourcing, competitive prototyping, focused demonstrations, or other acquisition approaches that shorten learning cycles and improve time-to-field.
• Technical certifications or formal military training in satellite communications, radio frequency transmission systems, electronic systems maintenance, cybersecurity, project leadership, or related mission systems.
• Current Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information eligibility.

Required Certifications: None
U.S. Citizenship Required: Yes
Security Clearance Required: Top Secret
Employment Type: Regular Full-time
Background Check Type: 7 Year Pre-Employment
Drug Screen Required: None
Position Contingent Upon Contract Award: Yes

Salary Range

$139,172.80-$190,000 USD

REAL ID Requirement

This position may require the ability to access to U.S. federal facilities. In accordance with the Department of Homeland Security's enforcement of the REAL ID Act, as of May 7, 2025, individuals must present a REAL ID-compliant form of identification or an acceptable alternative to gain entry. For a list of acceptable forms of identification, please click here.

Benefits

At ENSCO, a positive working environment and a competitive salary are only part of the reason for choosing a career here. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that creates a stimulating and supportive environment where you can thrive - visit ensco.com/careers/benefits to learn more.

Export Control and Licensing

This position may involve access to technology or technical data that is controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations and the release of which to a non US person may require an export license from the U.S. Government.