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Engineering Manager II - Business Area System Support
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Plano, USA
Full-time
Manager · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Communication
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities:
- Services & Compliance Scope (via your teams):
- BA IT: services and support specific to the business area, outside of standard Corp IT offerings. This includes:
- Laptop and hardware provisioning for specialized configurations, program-specific builds, edge-case requests outside of Corp IT scope
- Server setup and maintenance for BA systems and program support environments
- Functional Support
- Lab management oversight: partnering with the lab manager on operations, capacity, and access. Guidance to Enterprise-wide expectations of Lab Manager job responsibilities
- System administration: setting job expectations, standards, and job scope for sysadmins across the engineering org
- CMMC compliance support and execution
- Program systems support making sure programs get the IT/infrastructure they need to deliver on an adhoc cadence
- Leadership & Business Responsibilities (direct to you):
- Manage, coach, and grow the leads and technical staff reporting to you. This includes career development, performance conversations, and building bench strength
- Own the budget for BA System Support. Participate in annual planning, defend it, and make trade-offs as necessary that respect cost, risk, schedule, and priority
- Advance the org's vision, identifying and driving initiatives to completion that is both valuable and cost-effective
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums. Defend and negotiate for what is best for the business, including pushing back on requests that don't serve program or BA outcomes
- Drive scalability, automation, and a common approach as the default; approve deliberate exceptions for appropriate business cases
- Balance the speed of the business against enterprise cost, risk, schedule, and priority. Resist both "everything is special" and "one size fits all"
- Qualifications You Must Have:
- Bachelor's of Science degree in a related discipline
- Typically, 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, which includes 4+ years of management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop high-performing technical teams. Includes hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, etc.
- Working understanding of program-funded environments, including direct vs. indirect labor, program billing, and handling of sensitive data
- Track record of owning a budget and making cost/risk/schedule trade-offs
- Strong communication skills. Able to represent, defend, and negotiate on behalf of the team with cross-functional peers and senior leadership
- Technically aware, willing, and able to dig into the details when the situation requires it (not a hands-off manager)
- Qualifications We Prefer:
- Background in IT, platform engineering, infrastructure, or systems administration. Enough hands-on depth to make credible technical calls and challenge your teams' designs
- Direct experience with CMMC (or NIST 800-171 / DFARS) compliance programs. Driving controls, evidence, and audit readiness, understanding of risk management.
- Experience managing BA-level or program-level IT functions that operate alongside, but distinct from, enterprise Corp IT
- Working awareness of cybersecurity practices (secure baselines, vulnerability management, access control, incident response) applied at the BA/program level
- Experience overseeing lab environments and specialized hardware/server footprints for engineering or program use
- Prior experience driving automation and standardization across sysadmin and provisioning workflows, while allowing principled exceptions
- Growth mindset. Visibly invests in the development of the people around them
- Prior experience representing a technical team in cross-functional negotiations (with program management, engineering, security, or Corp IT)
- Essential Functions:
- Must be able to work in an office environment or hybrid setting.
- Ability to travel as required (up to 10% of the time).
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to lift up to 15 pounds occasionally.
- Clearly convey technical information, design specifications, and project updates to team members, stakeholders, and management.
- Ability to understand technical documents, schematics, and electronic instrument measurements.
- Ability to work with and collaboratively lead teams of engineers.
- This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.
- SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.
- SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.
- IMPORTANT NOTICE:
- Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances.
- SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!
- SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's of Science degree in a related discipline
- Typically, 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, which includes 4+ years of management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop high-performing technical teams. Includes hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, etc.
- Working understanding of program-funded environments, including direct vs. indirect labor, program billing, and handling of sensitive data
- Track record of owning a budget and making cost/risk/schedule trade-offs
- Strong communication skills. Able to represent, defend, and negotiate on behalf of the team with cross-functional peers and senior leadership
- Technically aware, willing, and able to dig into the details when the situation requires it (not a hands-off manager)
- Background in IT, platform engineering, infrastructure, or systems administration. Enough hands-on depth to make credible technical calls and challenge your teams' designs
- Direct experience with CMMC (or NIST 800-171 / DFARS) compliance programs. Driving controls, evidence, and audit readiness, understanding of risk management.
- Experience managing BA-level or program-level IT functions that operate alongside, but distinct from, enterprise Corp IT
- Working awareness of cybersecurity practices (secure baselines, vulnerability management, access control, incident response) applied at the BA/program level
- Experience overseeing lab environments and specialized hardware/server footprints for engineering or program use
- Prior experience driving automation and standardization across sysadmin and provisioning workflows, while allowing principled exceptions
- Growth mindset. Visibly invests in the development of the people around them
- Prior experience representing a technical team in cross-functional negotiations (with program management, engineering, security, or Corp IT)
- Must be able to work in an office environment or hybrid setting.
- Ability to travel as required (up to 10% of the time).
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to lift up to 15 pounds occasionally.
- Clearly convey technical information, design specifications, and project updates to team members, stakeholders, and management.
- Ability to understand technical documents, schematics, and electronic instrument measurements.
- Ability to work with and collaboratively lead teams of engineers.
- This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.
- SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.
- SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.
- Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances.
- SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!
- SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
About Sierra Nevada Corporation
Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing5000 employeesFounded 1963
Aerospace and national security contractor providing innovative technology solutions.
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