System Project Lead, Defense Systems Development

This project-lead role is in NEC’s Third AD Systems Group, part of the Aerospace and Defense Systems organization. The group develops communications and security-monitoring systems for the Air Self-Defense Force to support its operations. Teams are typically 10–50 people and use a waterfall process. The lead consolidates requirements, design, implementation and testing, and coordinates specifications with customers as well as task allocation and schedules with internal departments and partner companies. Work spans proposals through maintenance. The listed environment includes Red Hat-family Linux, Windows Server, Windows 11, SQL Server, C#, PowerShell, SPL and Cisco IOS; Coverity, GitHub, Teams, Zoom and Redmine are also named. Applicants need experience across system-development design, implementation and testing, or equivalent knowledge, plus experience contributing as a lead, sub-lead or member. Required responsibilities include customer specification coordination, subcontractor work-allocation and schedule coordination, and project management of progress, deliverables and issues.