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Chief Engineer, SYD 81

Space Systems Command · Posted 13 days ago

Hybrid Pentagon $144K – $197K Apply by Sep 9, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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About the Role

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What You'll Do

  • The United States Space Force (USSF) at the Pentagon, DC is searching for a Chief Engineer for SYD 81 (NH-0801-04, GS-14/15 Equivalent).
  • Description: The U.S.
  • Space Force is advancing a high-visibility transformation of its human resources information technology environment.
  • We seek a mission-focused, technically credible NH-IV Chief Engineer to serve as the senior engineering leader for this effort-establishing the systems engineering discipline, technical governance, and integration approach needed to deliver secure, interoperable, data-driven HR capabilities.
  • This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of first-of-its-kind HR capabilities for the nation's newest military service.
  • Leveraging modern commercial software products and cloud-based data solutions, the program is helping modernize the HR experience for Guardians, civilian employees, commanders, and HR professionals while strengthening the Space Force's ability to operate as a data-driven force.
  • Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate is a highly driven, mission-focused engineer with experience leading complex cloud-based data and software solutions from concept through implementation and operational sustainment.
  • The successful candidate brings technical depth in cloud data management; data lake, data-service, and data-stack development and implementation; enterprise cloud adoption; operational software delivery; and data interface management.
  • You are a systems thinker who understands that successful modernization is more than deploying software.
  • It requires purposeful integration of people, processes, data, architecture, security, interfaces, and operational outcomes.
  • You can turn mission and user needs into actionable technical requirements, viable architectures, release plans, and measurable performance objectives.
  • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 1.
  • Knowledge of a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary professional engineering concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, and techniques to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to plan and execute specialized programs of marked difficulty, responsibility, and significance. 2.
  • Knowledge of the mission, roles, functions, organizational structure, and operation of the DoD, and organizations that govern, interface with, and/or influence systems acquisition, development, and/or sustainment; and knowledge of planning, programming, and budgeting cycles, financial systems, and restrictions on expenditure of funds. 3.

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