Systems Engineer (Expert-Level)
TS/SCI Clearance REQUIRED
Overall Assignment Description:
Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.
Duties may include:
- Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
- Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
- Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
- Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
- Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
- Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
- Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
- Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
- Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
- Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
- Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.
Skills and Experience:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
- Expert-level experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
- Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.
- Experience with Cloud Computing and/or Spectral Science
Experience/Background/Skills:
- Knowledge of NGA and NRO mission, workflow, systems/segments, and interfaces.
- Self-starter - actively seeks out and assembles the appropriate parties to discover technical specifications or work-out technical issues.
- Experienced in leading integration efforts across multiple segments/systems.
- Experienced with assessing segment/system technical impacts across multiple organizations when integrating technical capabilities into the Enterprise.
- Experienced with determining and resolving inconsistencies with enterprise-level interfaces based on system documentation or acquired technical knowledge.
- Experience collecting, collating, and distilling highly technical information into meeting agendas, charts, reports, talking points, or other materials to communicate technical and programmatic progress.
- Experience identifying and tracking technical, schedule, and budgetary risks.
- Working knowledge of Agile and Digital Engineering processes and tools.
Duties:
- Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators in a collaborative manner.
- Provides proactive programmatic and technical support.
- Lead coordination and collaboration with multiple segments/systems to ensure clear understanding of technical requirements, and that appropriate development, testing and transition activities complete successfully and on schedule.
- Identify and track the critical path of development activities, identify and track action items.
- Consolidate, de-conflict, and help prioritize existing and future requirements across development efforts, integrators, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Identify programmatic and technical risks to the program. Work with client lead to mitigate and address these risks.
- Interface with client to understand and draft responses to upcoming data calls and briefing packages.
- Interface with stakeholders, both formally on behalf of the client and informally, to understand current and future requirements.
- Assist in the development of technical strategy. Coordinate and track new and existing requirements, define trades and help define the client's technical direction.
- Assist with development and coordination of program roadmaps.
Desired:
- Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
- Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
- Software Development Framework certification.
- INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
- Licensure as a professional engineer.
- Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
- ACSM
- ASCE
- ASPRS
- OGC
- SAREM
- USGIF
- Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
- Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
- Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
- Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
- Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
- Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.
