Aviation Integration Lead

Join a Company Where You Can Make a Real Impact – and Own a Piece of the Future

Are you energized by the idea of helping a company grow smarter, serve our customers better, and connect more deeply? Do you thrive in an environment where your ideas matter, your voice is heard, and your work drives real results? If so, we’d love to meet you.

We’re a mid-sized, employee-owned company on a mission to create meaningful value for both our employees and our customers. That means we’re not just looking for someone to fill a seat — we’re looking for someone who wants to build, innovate, and evolve with us.

Our company primarily serves the Navy and other Department of Defense clients, offering a dynamic environment where your expertise will make a difference.

About the Role

We’re seeking an Aviation Integration Lead, in support of our customer in St. Louis, MO.

Responsibilities

• Support the engineering design and integration of Virtual Analysis Events. 

• Work with the event staff to derive event specification requirements from objectives and customer needs. 

• Document those objectives and support the development of acquisition and technical documentation including but not limited to statements of work and specifications. 

• Assist in the development of long-term plans for capability integration in a software centric modeling and simulation environment. 

• Work with the Virtual Analysis Deputy to develop a long-term strategy for funding and implementing upgrades and improvements to add capability to the virtual analysis environment. 

• Provide expertise in budgeting and cost estimation for execution of work at contractor sites. 

• Serve as the focal point for contractor engagement management throughout the engineering integration and execution process. 

• Facilitate the integration process for the modification of models for aviation systems.  During this process, document and update modeled system performance and deviations from desired performance.

• Provide insight to determine the effectiveness of simulation solutions for executing objectives and gathering data and recommend modifications to task processes for future events.

• Travel (25%) is required for this position.

  
  
  

Required Experience & Skills: 

• Education:  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field from an accredited college or university.  Experience cannot be substituted for education.
• Experience:  Candidate must have at least ten (10) years of software engineering or software systems engineering experience.

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Candidate should be proficient in all Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Candidate should have demonstrated good oral and written communication skills.
• Candidate should have experience working in a dynamic, schedule constrained, and complex security environment.

Work Location:  St. Louis, MO

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
  • Clearance Requirement:  A current SSBI or Federal Investigative Standard Tier 5 (T5) or Tier 5 Reinvestigation (T5R) within the last 5 years.  A final DoD Top Secret clearance.  Eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartment Information (SCI) in accordance with Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704 and Special Access Program (SAP) in accordance with SAP Nomination Policy (SAPNP) with no disqualifying security issues that will deem a candidate ineligible for access. 
• Due to the sensitivity of customer-related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

About being a part of Team AVIAN

As an employee-owner, you’ll be a catalyst for progress — helping us find new opportunities with current or new customers, company efficiencies, streamline processes, and bring people and ideas together in smarter ways. Whether it’s helping us optimize workflows, enhancing the employee experience, or delivering more impactful solutions to our customers, your inputs will have reach and relevance across the organization.

Taking care of each other is a cornerstone of our AVIAN philosophy. Being part of the AVIAN team means being part of a team that takes pride in being expansive in our community because our impact doesn’t stop in the workplace. We actively engage in community initiatives, empowering our employees to make a meaningful difference.

You’ll Succeed Here If You...

• See opportunities where others see routine
• Are curious, collaborative, and passionate about making things better
• Enjoy connecting dots across teams, tools, and tasks
• Believe in doing the right thing the right way — even when no one’s watching
• Play an active role in our growth, using your ideas and initiative to shape how we work, serve, and succeed together
• Embrace a “one team” mindset knowing we are stronger together through trust, transparency and teamwork.
• Understand the power of ownership — and are excited to be part of an employee-owned culture

Why Join Us?

• Employee Ownership: We’re not just building a company — we’re building a legacy. As an employee-owner, you’ll share in our success and have a direct stake in our future.
• Real Growth: We’re expanding, evolving, and exploring new ways to serve. Your contributions will shape our direction and help us grow stronger.
• Purpose-Driven Work: Every improvement you help make is one that adds value — not just for us, but for the people and missions we support.
• Culture of Collaboration: We’re big enough to take on meaningful challenges, but small enough that everyone still knows your name.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Designed to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being, our health and wellness benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with telemedicine services and a TRICARE supplement for veterans.
• Flexible Leave Benefits: we prioritize a balanced, supportive environment that allows you to thrive both personally and professionally and offer flexible and paid time off, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, maternity and bonding leave, and military training leave.

AVIAN is a service-based organization. As an equal opportunity employer, our policy of business is to seek the most qualified candidate for each talent opportunity without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, religious belief, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual preference, physical or mental handicap, lawful political affiliation or veteran’s status.