Cleared R&D Senior Manager - Advanced Solutions Engineering, Hybrid

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Salary Range:

$184,400 - $313,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Cyber Security & Mission Computing Center (9300) is looking for a motivational and dedicated individual to lead the Advanced Solutions Engineering Group, Organization 9360. In this role, you will partner with Mission organizations to apply the group’s core technical capabilities to deliver robust, secure, and creative solutions that enable Sandia’s national security mission. The organization is engaged in a diverse set of ground-breaking projects and programs, aimed at diversifying and growing its staff and management. The group is a technical capability organization, with core capabilities in software engineering, information systems engineering, and cybersecurity.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Collaborate with management teams within 9300 and other areas across the Labs, including Information Operations (5600), Systems Mission Engineering (6300), Computation and Analysis (8700), ND Modernization (2000), ND Stockpile Management (7000), and many others

• Team with other senior managers and business areas to develop fully integrated solutions that seamlessly enable mission and business by effectively planning, allocating, and managing resources to assure system deliveries meet performance, cost, and schedule requirements

• Engage in strategic Cyber/CS recruiting and retention initiatives, partnering with HR to significantly improve our ability to attract and retain talent

• Lead TITANS (Technical Internships To Advance National Security), a strategic internship pipeline that spans multiple Divisions

• Lead programmatic efforts supporting Sandia's operational technology (OT) cybersecurity mission

• Lead an agile management team, enabling a culture of trust and transparency

• Craft and implement staffing, business development, and retention plans that attract, reward and retain a highly capable workforce

• Travel to support current program needs and identify new opportunities for growing our capabilities and impact

  The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field plus 10 years of experience; or equivalent (MS + 6 years, AS + 14 years, or no degree + 18 years)

• Included in the above:

• A minimum of five years of demonstrated leadership and/or managerial experience

• An active DOE Q clearance; or equivalent is required to start

• Ability to obtain and maintain an SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph test

Qualifications We Desire:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

• Experience building and maintaining diverse, teaming partnerships at all levels of internal and external organizations

• Ability to mentor others and build a positive and high-trust teaming environment to deliver on a strategic vision

• Experience with recruiting and hiring, particularly in cybersecurity or computer science and intern pipelines

• Superb communication, collaboration, and people skills to perform effectively in a dynamic and hybrid teaming environment

• Experience with successful program and project management and execution to meet project cost, schedule, and performance

• Technical experience with a subset of the following: software engineering, cybersecurity, information systems architecture, data analytics, machine learning

• Regular access to Sandia classified networks and the ability to be onsite in Albuquerque at least two weeks per month

About Our Team:

The Advanced Solutions Engineering (ASE) Organization is a highly integrated team of departments focused on delivering software, OT cybersecurity, computing, and system solutions that impact Sandia's mission-critical programs. This team includes staff and managers that work on-site, as telecommuters, and as remote workers. We deliver cost-effective and reliable solutions, enable customer agility and performance, and impact missions across Sandia. We are an agile organization whose work is focused on national security missions, ranging from low TRL research to higher TRL engineered systems. To have broad impact across Sandia missions, we purposely extend our core strengths and differentiation capabilities through partnerships with other organizations and through LDRDs.

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide

• Extraordinary co-workers

• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world

• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities

• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)

• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

  World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

  *These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 695362

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F