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# Systems Integrator

- **Company:** ENSCO, Inc.
- **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,448.0 - $155,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Integration Tests, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9112289/systems-integrator

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, software engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, or a closely related technical discipline, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.
 * Demonstrated success integrating multiple complex defense, intelligence, space, cyber, communications, or mission programs that were governed, funded, and scheduled independently.
 * Proven ability to build trust across organizations with different incentives and technical visions, influence senior leaders without formal authority, and secure durable commitments to a shared mission outcome.
 * Experience reconciling competing architectures and baselines across mission threads, interfaces, data flows, standards, cybersecurity boundaries, test environments, operational workflows, and transition dependencies.
 * Ability to create integrated milestone networks and dependency views, identify critical-path conflicts, and recommend acceleration, resequencing, scope changes, deliberate pacing, or off-ramps based on mission impact and evidence.
 * Experience defining integration entry and exit criteria, interface agreements, ownership boundaries, configuration decisions, technical knowledge points, demonstrations, and operational-acceptance evidence.
 * Ability to frame executive trade space across mission effect, performance, cost, schedule, interoperability, cybersecurity, integration complexity, sustainment, time-to-field, and production scalability.
 * Experience producing concise architecture options, interface and dependency views, decision papers, integration roadmaps, commitment registers, risk and opportunity views, and leader briefings that drive action.
 * Demonstrated ability to lead high-tempo technical forums, resolve conflict constructively, challenge unsupported assumptions, escalate decisions at the right time, and maintain accountability across organizational boundaries.
 * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the technical depth to engage subject-matter experts and the clarity to explain consequences and recommendations to senior decision makers.
 * Ability to work in a mission-driven hybrid environment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and support periodic coordination or travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, as required.
 * AN ACTIVE DOD SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION FOR WHICH, YOU MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Qualifications Desired

 * Master's degree in a relevant technical, operational, acquisition, or management discipline.
 * Experience integrating Satellite Control, telemetry, tracking and control, command and control, space-ground, mission management, or other space mission capabilities.
 * Experience aligning Government program offices, operational stakeholders, laboratories, test organizations, cybersecurity authorities, commercial providers, and traditional or non-traditional suppliers around a shared delivery outcome.
 * Experience with modular open architectures, interface standards, application programming interfaces, data models, data-rights strategies, and competitive or replaceable capability increments.
 * Experience with commercial-first sourcing, competitive prototyping, Other Transaction pathways, Commercial Solutions Openings, or portfolio strategies that preserve options and increase delivery speed.
 * Experience using mission-thread modeling, interface simulation, digital integration environments, automated evidence, or portfolio analytics to identify incompatibility and accelerate decisions.
 * Experience planning integrated test events, operational demonstrations, user evaluation, operational acceptance, transition, sustainment, production, or fielding for a multi-program capability.
 * Experience with continuity, mission resilience, reconstitution, strategic depth, or sustained operations for mission-critical capabilities.
 * Credentials in acquisition, architecture, integration, program leadership, product delivery, cybersecurity, data analytics, or conflict resolution.
 * Current Top Secret or TS/SCI eligibility.

## Description

* 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, resequence, 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.


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