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Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enable requirements and system support: Work closely with office management and government task manager to enable requirements gathering, system evaluation, integration, implementation, and assist in the maintenance of the data environments
• Manage requirements lifecycle: Manage requirements from receipt to delivery working with diverse service delivery teams to ensure requirements are regularly reviewed and updated
• Assess and implement process improvements: Provide assessments of current work unit processes, recommend a way forward, propose an implementation plan, and support the implementation of projects
• Lead full-lifecycle planning: Provide full-lifecycle planning, change management from inception to execution for a high operational tempo mission office
• Capture user feedback: Sustain, propose, implement, and evolve capabilities to capture user feedback on products and capabilities delivered by technical project teams
• Deliver documentation and SOPs: Provide documentation and SOPs not limited to assessments completed and implementation of new processes
• Ensure documentation availability: Ensure documentation is made available to the PM and GTM in an approved document repository
• Collaborate with technology teams: Work closely with technology teams to improve processes and services
• Optimize delivery processes: Identify efficiencies and develop processes to optimize the delivery of immediate and long-term capabilities, vision, strategy, and priorities
• Support special projects: Support special projects involving advanced technology solutions for partner organizations
• Evaluate technologies: Provide technology evaluations that can assist with streamlining processes and scaling to meet evolving mission demands
• Maintain requirements systems: Support requirements management system for a multi-disciplined mission-focused team including maintenance of legacy requirements tracking system
• Support data policy: Support data policy and workflows
• Provide technical training: Provide technical, ad hoc trainings to data users on custom tools and data exploitation consistent with established use cases
• Automate data solutions: Sustain or introduce automated solutions that can map collections to data models, increase efficiencies in data sharing and transport, and optimize workflows to use fewer mission applications

Work Environment:

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Moderate 20-50%
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Workflow and technology support: Experience standing up new workflows and supporting technology to track and manage requirements
• Metrics and triage tools: Experience creating metrics and triage tools for technologists and leaders to assess overall level of effort
• Big data and AI/ML: Experience supporting big data environments and AI/ML solutions
• Advanced technology delivery: Experience delivering advanced technology solutions
• Software engineering: Experience with software engineering processes in multi-language environments
• Sensitive data policy: Experience with sensitive data policy and data workflows
• Iterative architecture delivery: Experience delivering iterative technology architectures to address unmet mission needs
• Data exploitation leadership: Experience leading data exploitation efforts for sensitive data
• Best practices implementation: Experience implementing best practices and private sector solutions into sensitive data environments
• Project lifecycle execution: Experience taking data exploitation projects from conception to production
• Governance structure support: Experience implementing and supporting new governance structures for IT services
• Roadmap implementation: Experience delivering large-scale implementation of roadmaps and plans for IT organizations
• Complex systems planning: Experience creating project plans for complex systems
• Cost modeling: Experience organizing data to develop cost models
• Strategic resource planning: Experience developing strategic resource plans for enterprise-wide services
• ETL team leadership: Experience leading development teams including ETL to align with organizational needs

Desired:

• Technology transformation: Experience transforming technology programs to meet corporate priorities
• Machine learning: Experience with machine learning solutions
• Training on sensitive tools: Experience training users on tools for sensitive data exploitation
• Analytic collaboration: Experience working directly with analytic disciplines to derive requirements and understand workflows
• High-tempo environments: Experience working in high operational tempo environments
• Cross-organizational collaboration: Experience working across multiple Federal and partner organizations
• UI/UX and design: Experience with User Interface/User Experience or graphic design
• Messaging systems: Experience communicating using messaging systems
• Cloud technologies: Experience with GDCH, AWS, or other cloud technologies
• Big data platforms: Experience with Elastic products (Kibana, Elastic Search), NiFi, Linux admin, or GPU admin
• Creative tools: Experience with Adobe Creative Suite
• CRM platforms: Experience with Salesforce
• Certifications: WS Certification, PMP Certification, Agile Certification, DEVSECOPS Certification

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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.