Sr Manager, Digital Design and Signal Processing (Lead and Architecture)

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Job Title: Sr. Manager, Digital Design and Signal Processing Project Lead and Architecture Job Code: 44100 Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT Work Schedule: 9/80- employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off L3Harris, Communication Systems-West (CSW) is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to manage the Project Lead and Architecture team within the Digital Design and Signal Processing organization. This individual will manage a large team of technical leaders and sub-managers while being responsible for guiding technical direction, people leadership, life-cycle execution of complex development efforts from concept through System Integration and Test (SIT). The role is responsible for coordinating within the department on staffing, forecasting, talent management, and collaborating externally with other engineering organizations to meet business needs. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will serve as key technical and organizational leader for the department, partnering closely with System Engineering, Project Engineering, and other Functional Engineering organizations. The role includes leadership in the concept approach and architecture for EW, Optical, Software Defined Radio, and Satellite Communications systems. Essential Functions: Coordination and management of all projects within the Digital Design and Signal Processing organization. Aligning department resources to meet organizational commitments and priorities. Working with other engineering departments to ensure alignment and prioritization. Maintain project awareness and adapt to changing priorities or outcomes, working within Digital Design and Signal Processing organization to dynamically adjust as needed. Sit in on design reviews while ensuring technical synergy, competence, efficiency, and completeness. Perform staffing assignments, forecasting, and hiring on behalf of their respective department. Provide employee career development, mentoring, training, and performance reviews. Support bid and proposal efforts on behalf of Digital Design and Signal Processing organization. Initial Point of Contact for other departments to needing support from Digital Design and Signal Processing organization. Support Digital Design and Signal Processing organization engineering processes, guidelines, and process improvement initiatives. Partner with Project Engineering and customer stakeholders to ensure technical execution aligns with program objectives, mission needs, schedule, budget, and contractual requirements. Provide technical leadership across the full system life cycle, including concept development, architecture, requirements analysis, design synthesis, integration, verification, validation, qualification, deployment, and operational support as required. Support the development of system architectures and technical roadmaps for products and technologies like Software Defined Radios (SDR), Optical Modems, Cryptographic devices, Waveforms, Electronic Warfare/Electronic Attack systems. Oversee requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, and verification planning across FPGA & HDL solutions. Ensure development of high-quality technical artifacts including specifications, interface control documents, test plans, procedures, verification cross-reference matrices, and other design artifacts. Support internal and external technical reviews, customer briefings, milestone assessments, and program status reviews as the responsible systems engineering leader. Drive technical risk opportunity identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution across development and production efforts. Support cross-functional engineering execution among systems, electrical, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams. Support proposal strategy, basis of estimate development, technical volume creation, technical interchange meetings, and customer demonstrations for new business pursuits. Establish and enforce disciplined software and HDL engineering processes, tools, and metrics to ensure technical quality, configuration control, and compliance with company and customer standards. Provide leadership in staffing, mentoring, succession planning, and building a high-performing engineering organization capable of supporting multiple concurrent programs. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related engineering discipline) with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. Active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance; ability to access additional classified programs as required. Preferred Additional Skills: Minimum of 5 years of technical leadership, functional leadership, or engineering management experience leading cross-disciplinary teams on complex defense or aerospace programs. Active Top-Secret clearance preferred; TS/SCI eligibility or access is strongly desired. Strong knowledge of systems engineering processes spanning requirements management, architecture development, interface definition, integration, verification, validation, and qualification. Ability to guide technical strategy and investment planning for emerging capabilities, including technology maturation, transition to production, and mission-relevant roadmap development. Experience with risk management, earned value or schedule-driven technical execution, and coordination across internal teams. Strong understanding of secure development environments, classified program execution, and the operational discipline required for sensitive technologies. Experience supporting captures, RFIs, RFPs, and new business pursuits, including technical writing, solution shaping, and formal presentations to internal and external stakeholders. Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for executive leadership, customers, and engineering teams. Working knowledge of tools such as DOORS or equivalent requirements tools, Microsoft Office applications, MS Project, and model-based or document-based systems engineering environments.