Senior Joint Fires Integration SME Site Lead

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Joint Fires Integration SME Site Lead to join our team! In this role the Site Lead anchors the team as the senior on-site integrator and primary customer interface, and sets the bar for the three SMEs.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Serve as the primary liaison between the contractor team and government leadership, including the supported J32 Joint Fires Division and HQ USPACOM's J3 Joint Fires Division and IJFC, providing input and coordination for TTPs, CONOPs, policies, and workflows.

• Identify, analyze, and articulate requirements and supporting products for planning and operational execution, integrating across Services, Allies, and Partner Nations within the joint fires enterprise.

• Integrate lessons learned and best practices from comparable joint fires modernization efforts across combatant commands to inform the supported command's capability development.

• Provide JADO subject-matter expertise grounded in joint and Service doctrine (e.g., JP 3-0 joint operations and JADO fundamentals, AFDP 3-0, AFDP 3-60) to shape the cell's processes and products.

• Track joint targeting cycles and battle rhythms across combatant commands to maintain the global-integration perspective that links kinetic and non-kinetic effects.

• Engage DoD stakeholders and support joint exercises, experimentation, and constructive, virtual, and live events, including exercise observation, data capture, and lessons-learned integration.

• Supervise and integrate the work of the team's targeting, integration, and assessment SMEs; own deliverable quality and customer reporting.

• Occasional travel to Stuttgart Germany (USEUCOM)

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of military experience, including 5+ years in staff planning, capabilities, strategy, or operational technology.

• 8+ years in joint kinetic and/or non-kinetic fires, targeting, or intelligence, with COCOM or joint-staff-level experience.

• Demonstrated JADO and joint planning expertise, with working knowledge of the joint targeting cycle and F2T2EA.

• Experience planning, observing, or assessing joint exercises and translating observations into lessons learned and process improvements.

• Proven ability to act as a senior customer interface and translate ambiguous customer intent into requirements, TTPs, and CONOPs.

• Excellent written and oral communication, knowledge management, and operational assessment skills.

• U.S. citizen.

• Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Weapons School and/or PME graduate; Joint Targeting Course or Target Development Course.

• Prior combatant command or joint staff experience in a fires or operations role.

• Familiarity with JFN, IJFC, CJADC2, and ABMS.

• Familiarity with Maven Smart System (MSS) and its associated tool suites

• Familiarity with one or more of: Service and component fires enterprises, Air Operations Center (AOC) operations, and C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) integration.

• Experience supporting joint capability development, experimentation, or assessment efforts.

• Supervisory or team-lead experience on a government services contract.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $134,100.00 - $241,400.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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