Technical Lead – AOC Falconer Modernization

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense. Position Summary: KBR is seeking a senior Technical Lead to guide solution development for a large, mission-critical Air Operations Center (AOC) modernization and sustainment effort. Prior to award, the Technical Lead will support capture, proposal, and transition planning activities by shaping the technical vision, assessing modernization opportunities, identifying risks, and developing an executable, mission-focused solution. Following award, the Technical Lead will serve as the senior technical authority for the program, responsible for technical strategy, solution architecture, engineering integration, technology modernization, cybersecurity alignment, technical risk management, and delivery of mission-relevant technical outcomes. This is a mission-facing technical leadership role requiring a proven leader who can build trusted relationships with government stakeholders, operators, engineers, architects, and teammates while delivering complex operational and technical solutions. The ideal candidate is a former senior technical leader, architect, chief engineer, or engineering manager with deep experience supporting AOC, air operations, operational C2, or comparable mission-critical defense systems. This candidate must understand how the current and future AOC technology ecosystem functions in operational environments and possess hands-on experience delivering complex defense technology in classified environments. The candidate should understand the practical challenges associated with modernizing legacy systems, cloud adoption, DevSecOps implementation, cybersecurity and RMF compliance, hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure, third-party integration, system interoperability, mission assurance, and fielded system sustainment. The candidate will exhibit collaborative technical leadership with the government program office, operators, engineers, teammates, and the requirements community. They must be able to challenge assumptions, identify technical risks and gaps, and translate solution concepts into differentiated, proposal-ready approaches that are both credible and executable. Key Responsibilities: 1. Technical Solution Architecture Serve as the senior technical lead for KBR’s Falconer/AOC solution development and proposal readiness activities. Develop an integrated technical approach across sustainment, modernization, cloud, on-prem infrastructure, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, configuration management, fielding, help desk, and mission assurance. Identify technical gaps, dependencies, assumptions, risks, data needs, and areas requiring additional SME input before proposal submission. Ensure the proposed solution is practical for a live, distributed weapon system environment and avoids unrealistic cloud-only or technology-first assumptions. 2. AOC Modernization and Integration Leadership Guide technical strategy for a heterogeneous system-of-systems with legacy applications, third-party components, site-specific baselines, classified environments, and evolving Government architectures. Shape approaches for hybrid cloud/on-prem operations, distributed C2, data synchronization, interface management, API governance, and open architecture integration. Develop approaches for mission-safe modernization, including shadow operations, blue/green validation, staged deployment, controlled cutover, rollback, recoverable baselines, and continuous evidence generation. Coordinate closely with the Program Manager to ensure the technical approach aligns to cost, schedule, performance, operational readiness, and Government oversight expectations. 3. DevSecOps, Cyber, and Classified Cloud Lead technical planning for DevSecOps-enabled deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, staged validation, and automated evidence generation. Define practical automation patterns for applications that were not originally designed for automation, including wrapper/adapter approaches, deployment bundles, external configuration control, and regression validation. Coordinate with cyber and cloud SMEs on RMF, ATO, continuous