Description
Description
Join a winning team! Be part of a dynamic team that delivers excellence and quality for the NRO's Systems Engineering Directorate (SED). SAIC is seeking to fill an opening for a Space Enterprise System Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the system enterprise architecting, analysis, and system of systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems. Make a difference in securing our nation's security through quality engineering and innovation.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Coordinating and supporting enterprise requirements, CONOPS, and architectures in the remote sensing and protection domains; supporting enterprise and system level requirements development for future systems; overseeing the allocation and closure of acquisition-level requirements with developers; participation in readiness events in support of enterprise, system and acquisition-level ground milestones; leading and supporting project planning; assessing schedule and risk; generating and presenting engineering briefings; and interfacing with numerous customers
Working across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs
Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and external stakeholders
Identifying and defining future space capability needs
Identifying key architecture and system level trades
Developing strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architectures
Assessing the performance of current and future architecture concepts
Providing technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process
Developing system architecture models to capture the holistic perspective within the context of a larger enterprise
Preparing briefings for senior decision makers
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least fifteen (15) years of relevant experience with ten (10) being at the Chantilly IC Customer
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on core systems engineering processes in support of end-to-end mission and services closure
Proven experience with technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing
Expert-level proficiency with use of system architectures to support senior level enterprise decision making
Proficiency with system architecture and engineering tools and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, UAF)
Proven experience with the use of architecting across IC
Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs with system architectures, impacts, and advancement
Proven experience in development and use of modeling for system architecture and engineering solutions
Experience with lifecycle readiness from architecture concept development and trade-offs, through system decommissioning
Expertise in mission technical capabilities and system performance analysis and assessment
Experience identifying user needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives
Experience in supporting Requirements Engineering, CONOPS development, and system integration to accommodate End to End Systems Engineering
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment
Strong oral and written communication skills
Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums
Desired Qualifications
Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline
Experience with IC customer's Request for Change (RFC) process and the Engineering Review Board process
Expert-level understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes
Knowledge of SIGINT and GEOINT remote sensing systems, protection, and overall space and ground architecture including mission management and/or mission processing functions
Integration and enterprise closure experience within overall customer domain
Detailed knowledge of customer's mission and overall space and ground architecture
Experience in UAF and SysML applications
Prior US military and/or IC customer experience
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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