Software Architect (Level 4) Clearance Required

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**Description:** By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.
With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility.

Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.
At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility.
Your Mission is Ours.
Looking for a career with purpose?

One that challenges your mind, grows your skills and contributes to our Nation’s most critical missions?

Do you pride yourself on solving problems that others think are impossible?

If you answered yes to these questions, then we would like you to join Lockheed Martin Space! We develop, deliver, and operate affordable engineering and sustainment solutions for commercial, military and intelligence users across the globe.

These mission critical efforts include development of innovative enterprise, cloud and application-based solutions for mission management, command and control, collection orchestration and tasking, processing, data analysis and analytics along with world-class operations and sustainment capabilities of space-based programs in support of national security.
Our team is looking for a creative, self-motivated, software architect who is familiar with ground based mission management software systems and has a passion for pushing the bounds of what current and future technology can accomplish.
This role will be focused on shaping the vision for future development based on our customer's mission needs.

It will require a willingness to learn and understand our customers current architecture and work closely with our customers and mission partners to plan out how we can evolve our design to meet their needs while staying within their financial and schedule guardrails.

The ideal candidate should have a strong software engineering, Test and architecture background as well as a deep understanding of ground based mission management software design.

If you think this describes you and you are looking for an opportunity to grow and challenge yourself then we would love for you to apply!
**Core responsibilities include:**
• Coordination with stakeholders and external segments within the enterprise.
• Demonstrated leadership working with both software and systems engineering teams.
**Selected candidate must have an active TS/ SCI security clearance for consideration.**
**This is a MID CAREER (level 4) ROLE where candidates typically require 5 years of professional experience and a BS degree.**
Lockheed Martin employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition
https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/working-here#benefits>Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
**Basic Qualifications:**
• Bachelors degree in an Engineering or STEM discipline or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work with limited supervision while leading teams to include collaborating across the IC environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Software and Systems Architecture and Systems Integration and Test best practices.
• Demonstrated behaviors of a systems thinker; selects and applies appropriate systems thinking skills.
• An active TS/SCI Clearance is required for consideration this role with the ability to obtain a poly.
**Desired Skills:**
• Experience identifying, defining, developing, assessing, and demonstrating integrated mission solution architectures spanning Satellite Ground Systems and missions.
• Experience utilizing Splunk to analyze log data and test results.
• Automated Software Testing Experience
• Experience from a test and requirements verification environment; experience in Ground Systems or GeoInt Mission Operations including development of automated tests, test planning and procedure development process, test execution, analysis, and anomaly resolution
• Previous experience with IC GeoInt missions and segments
• Experience performing in a Architect role on a large and complex IC integrated mission development efforts
• Demonstrated experience communicating compelling written, verbal, and visual narratives that convey mission and business value to senior leadership and stakeholders
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**Security Clearance Statement:** This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
**Clearance Level:** TS/SCI w/Poly
**Other Important Information You Should Know**
**Expression of Interest:** By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match.

Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
**Ability to Work Remotely:** Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
**Work Schedules:** Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees.

Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed.

These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
**Schedule for this Position:** 9x80 every other Friday off
**Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.**
**The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.**
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours.

Our customers tackle the hardest missions.

Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision.

They’re dangerous.

Critical.

Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives.

Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges.

Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
**Experience Level:** Experienced Professional
**Business Unit:** SPACE
**Relocation Available:** Possible
**Career Area:** Software Engineering
**Type:** Full-Time
**Shift:** First

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