INDOPACOM Solutions Architect

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
   

The successfully selected candidate for this DOD Test/Experimentation  INDOPACOM Solutions Architect position will be a full-time employee of the KBR team supporting our DOD Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) contract.  TRMC is working with INDOPACOM to gather needs and requirements to build out T&E solutions. 

Duties will include the following:

• Assist in eliciting and capturing INDOPACOM requirements;
• Work closely with TRMC T&E system engineers to define potential solutions over time against these requirements;
• Document experimentation mission threads/scenarios and define/create needed system engineering documentation; 
• Work directly with the operational community, helping TRMC define the required infrastructure for distributed test training and experimentation events;
• Become familiar with and work collaboratively across the TRMC Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) User Support Teams to define, develop, test and support T&E solutions to meet specific events requirements;
• Lead and mentor a cross-organizational team working together to identify barriers and complete required technical work; 
• Work with TRMC program management and senior leadership to help estimate and plan resources to implement plan across TRMC and Service T&E budgets;
• Advocate and defend investment plan with Services/Agencies to ensure successful execution;
• Communicate TRMC vision for the future of distributed T&E in DoD Strategic Plan for T&E Resources and appropriate DoD T&E community forums; 
• Become established as a functional authority on Operational requirements in the T&E community.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Active and readily transferable TS/SCI clearance
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (technical discipline preferred)
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience to include the following: a) Systems Engineering; b) Military Operations and Experimentation; c) Participation in Large Distributed Test, Training or Experimentation Events
• Experience working with the definition and/or development of digital environments to support the T&E needs for US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

*experience may be substituted in lieu of degree

Preferred Education, Experience and Knowledge:

• Education: Technical Master’s Degree
• Experience at the OSD or DOD Service-level in one or more of the following:
  • Digital Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
  • Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Environments
  • Test Analysis and Test Planning in Distributed Exercises/Events
  • Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), Secret Defense Research and Engineering Network (SDREN) and Defense Information Systems Network (DISN). Intimate knowledge of one or more of the following:
    • DoD Programs and Acquisition process
    • Middleware protocols – High-Level Architecture (HLA), Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and Training & Training Enabling Architecture (TENA)
    • TRMC, TRMC’s Central T&E Investment Program (CTEIP) and TRMC’s Science & Technology (S&T) Programs
    • TRMC’s Cloud Hybrid Edge-to-Enterprise Evaluation & Test Analysis Suite (CHEETAS).
• Experience working with the definition and/or development of digital environments to support the T&E needs for one or more of the following TRMC Partners:
  • US European Command (EUCOM)
  • DOD’s Joint All Domain Command and Control’s (JADC2) Joint Development Environment (JDE)
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD) Mission Engineering/Mission Integration organization
  • Chief Engineer of the US Navy

Basic Compensation:

$170,000-213,000

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.