Mid GEOINT Systems Engineer

Job Description

Strategic ACI is seeking a Mid GEOINT Systems Engineer to join our mission as a member of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division's Lead Integrator Team, you will work alongside Expert and Senior System Engineer and Integrator teammates to conduct a wide variety of analyses (e.g., Architecture Gap Analysis, Enterprise Requirements Analysis, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (COAs), and Trade Studies), developing recommendations that will inform investment decisions (e.g., system divestitures and consolidation). You will apply your Systems Engineering and Integration knowledge to support a variety of integration activities across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs), ensuring synchronization of activities and documentation of the Enterprise baseline (e.g., architecture, requirements, interfaces). Working within NGA's Digital Engineering Environment, you will help to facilitate the development of integrated project plans, requirements, epics, target state architectures, CONOPS, and roadmaps. You will participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams focused on Analytic, Collection Management, Data Services, Foundation GEOINT, and Information Technology modernization, ensuring integrated solutions and capability deliveries. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage and expand your technical knowledge related to IT / Cloud technologies and services, working with Expert IT/Cloud Architects to drive NGA IT modernization. For example, you will help to define enterprise requirements and mature NGA's IT Architecture Layer and Multiple Cloud Architecture Patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Perform architecture gap analysis and develop the Future State Enterprise Architecture.
• Conduct engineering analyses to inform GEOINT Mission and IT capability investment decisions in alignment with the Enterprise Architecture baseline.
• Conduct baseline analysis, driving allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs and end-to-end traceability of requirements, architecture, etc.
• Help advance NGA's multiple cloud acquisition, through enterprise architecture and requirements activities. Identifies and documents associated Risks, Issues, and Opportunities.
• Capture and translate mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Perform systems integration activities across organizations; participate in integrated project teams, driving the development of project plans, architecture and engineering artifacts (e.g., CONOPS), roadmaps / schedules, Risks, etc.
• Participate in Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Participate in NGA Governance, Configuration Management, and Risk Management processes.
• Help define modernized system integration processes, driving enhanced adoption of agile practices and digital engineering, efficiencies, and increased partnerships across a large number of organizations.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Cloud Architect.
• Understanding and demonstrated 6+ years of working experience with systems engineering processes (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, Integration, Test, and/or Transition).
• 6+ years of working experience in cloud-based systems architecting.
• Has hands-on experience across the Systems Engineering & Integration Lifecycle (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, CONOPS, Integration, Test, Transition).
• Has an understanding of IT and cloud-based technologies to support a variety of enterprise transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems and projects.
• Familiar with the GEOINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) Architecture.
• Critical-thinking mindset pertaining to strategic enterprise architecture and technical planning, engineering analyses, and cross-organization coordination and integration activities to modernize the GEOINT architecture and advance GEOINT mission capabilities.

Desired:

• Experience / working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED Architecture (Data Providers, Systems / Services, Interfaces, Data Flows).
• Experience with agile project management tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
• Cloud Certification(s).
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification(s).
• Familiarity with multiple cloud concepts.
• Experience / working knowledge of Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS).
• Experience / working knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices.

About Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc



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Why choose a career with Strategic ACI?



Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc. believes that our greatest asset is our employees. Our goal is not to meet our staff's expectations, but to exceed them. Competitive salaries, work-life balance, industry leading benefits packages, and family first values are at the core of Strategic ACI's culture.



We're proud the be selected as a 2020 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal (WBJ), as well as being 1 of 19 Virginia based companies to be awarded the prestigious HIRE Vets Gold Medallion by the Department of Labor for our commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.



Your Strategic ACI Total Rewards Compensation Package includes:

• Competitive salary


• 100% benefits paid (Includes; health, dental, and vision plan premiums) for all full time employees and their families


• 401k with 5% match vested at day one!


• Profit sharing commensurate with company growth


• PTO - 3 weeks and 3 days per year


• 11 Company Paid Holidays (aligned with Federal Government)


• Long term/Short term disability


• 1.5x salary life insurance


• $100 per month cell phone allowance


• $6000 cash in lieu of benefits per year if employee is insured elsewhere


• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for college or professional certifications


• Casual dress code, company lunches, flexible schedules, employee phone plan discounts