Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer - Mission Solution Architect - Top Secret

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer - Mission Solution Architect Top Secret

Job Code: 41501

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

The ACE is the technical interface between L3Harris and our customers’ engineering staff, supporting the Business Development staff in the creation of new business opportunities. The successful ACE will engage with customer, engineering, operations, and management personnel to define and document the customer’s CONOPS and requirements, perform trade studies, engage L3Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk, and lead resulting proposal efforts. The ACE considers all of the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, in a manner that creates trust in the ACE as well as L3Harris. During program execution, the ACE is the technical advocate and voice of the customer during program reviews.  This role requires experience in systems engineering, system architecture development, competitive assessment, project engineering management and development program execution.

The Advanced Concept Engineer should be a subject matter expert in multiple technical domains with an entrepreneurial background.  This individual will work closely with business development and senior management to respond to customer needs with technical presentations, white papers and proposals; requests for proposals, information and broad agency announcements; and provide market and subject matter expert guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts.  Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work cross-functionally between a large engineering enterprise and external partners is required.

• Interpretation of customers’ mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market

• Advocates customer critical needs to internal stakeholders

• Builds business cases and manages discretionary resources

• Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to build new business opportunities

• Performs technical and management competitive assessments to clearly communicate why and how the new business opportunities provide value to L3Harris and the customer

• Evaluates customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements

• Synthesis and life cycle ownership of mission architecture

• Generation of the initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) … [truncated]