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Director Net-Centric Warfare Programs | Raytheon | Arlington, VA POSITION DESCRIPTION: Houston Associates Inc. A Raytheon Company (HAI) specializes in the engineering, operation, management and maintenance of mission-critical, high-performance networks that support the communication of integrated voice, data, video and imagery in a wide-area environment. Houston Associates' core business areas are telecommunications engineering and operations, net-centric enterprise services, health services solutions, and advanced training and eLearning solutions. Our clients include the US Department of Defense; Federal, state and local government; and the commercial manufacturing and industrial markets. Houston Associates is headquartered in Arlington, VA with other locations in the United States and overseas. This candidate is responsible for managing the Net-Centric Warfare Programs (NCWP) group for HAI. This is a highly visible position with profit/loss responsibility, delivering on time and within budget, managing about 5-10 programs with a staff of about 65, and working with clients and growing the NCWP organization. The candidate will manage subcontractors, work with prime contractors and build excellent teaming relationships. The position requires about 40% of the time managing the programs, contractually, overseeing program managers, and ensuring successful execution of programs and 60% of the time focused on growing the NCWP organization and expanding its base. All programs will focus on quality delivery with ISO9001 and CMMI processes. The candidate will build the strategy for growth of the NCWP organization and work with the senior management staff to ensure success. The candidate will provide downward communication of top-level project decisions and upward communication to the management team. EDUCATION: BA or BS preferred or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Management, or related discipline. REQUIRED SKILLS: Minimum Experience: 10 years, with 5 years of experience managing full life cycle development of medium to large-scale programs and 3 years leading a group of 50 or more staff. Must have a proven track record of leadership, drive and initiative. Ability to work well with clients. Must have previous work experience in DoD envirnoments. Excellent written and verbal communication. Ability to work in Software development environments and strong product delivery experience. Must have an active Security Clearance (Interim, Secret, TS, etc.) DESIRED SKILLS: Understanding of Net-Centric initiatives and programs within DoD. Working with DoD operational systems spanning the globe. Understanding of DoD initiatives, especially in NetOps, and Command and Control. Management of Software development projects. Work experience on a program or in an organization where CMMI (level 3 or above) and/or ISO standards were practiced. Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor. To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar: http://raytheon.contacthr.com/12256903 or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at http://raytheon.rayjobs.com/frameset.html?goto=er-viewjob&erjob=509701