Position Summary
Contractor
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Work you'll do
We are seeking a Industry SME Contractor supporting the technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery roadmap for this offering. The role will work closely with product, engineering, cybersecurity, space, software, hardware, AI, ground-segment, and client teams.
The ideal candidate can translate complex mission and security requirements into scalable, commercially viable solutions that can be deployed repeatably across clients and operating environments.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Define and evolve technical architectures for satellite cybersecurity products and managed services.
- Translate mission, operational, cybersecurity, and commercial requirements into scalable product and platform designs.
- Serve as a point of contact across cyber, software, hardware, AI, space, ground, cloud, and user environments.
- Establish reusable engineering standards, design patterns, integration approaches, and technical quality gates.
- Evaluate trade-offs across security, performance, resiliency, cost, maintainability, operability, and time to market.
- Support integration across embedded systems, spacecraft, ground segments, cloud environments, AI/ML pipelines, and user-facing applications.
- Analyze system interfaces, dependencies, constraints, failure modes, and operational scenarios.
- Develop reference architectures and reusable technical patterns that can support multiple clients and environments.
- Support pilots, co-development efforts, first-of-kind deployments, and transition into repeatable commercial offerings.
- Contribute to technical delivery roadmaps aligned with client needs, mission priorities, and market opportunities.
- Establish secure approaches for identity, key management, secure boot, secure updates, segmentation, data protection, logging, telemetry, and supply-chain security.
- Translate applicable compliance requirements into executable engineering controls and compliance-ready designs.
- Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, incident response, and critical technical decisions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineering teams, clients, executives, and business stakeholders.
Required Qualification :
- 10+ years of experience as a product engineer, solution architect, systems architect, technical product specialist, or in a similar role delivering complex cyber, aerospace, space, embedded, or mission-critical systems.
- Experience delivering complex, multidisciplinary cyber and/or space systems into production and operations.
- Deep experience designing secure architectures across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and space or embedded environments.
- Strong systems-thinking and integration experience, including interfaces, constraints, dependencies, failure modes, and operational considerations.
- Demonstrated authorship of reference architectures, design patterns, platforms, or reusable technical frameworks adopted by multiple teams.
- Experience developing productized solutions for deployment across multiple clients, programs, or operating environments.
The expected pay range for this contract assignment is $190-$200 per hour. The exact pay rate will vary based on skills, experience, and location and will be determined by the third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte.
Candidates interested in applying for this opportunity must be geographically based in the United States and must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
We do not accept agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Deloitte is not the employer for this role.
This work is contracted through a third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte.
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