Systems Integrator

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Integrator with experience on large SAFe agile programs to join the Air Force, Space, and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering, systems integration, and contract and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground architectures comprised of custom development, commercial off the shelf (COTS), and cloud-based services.

The Systems Integrator will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative facilitating execution of a Major System Acquisition (MSA) in coordination with development contractors and other stakeholders (including end user operators) to deploy new protection capabilities into space operations. The Systems Integrator collaborates within a team of mission-related SMEs to design, acquire, test, and field a complex ground software system providing Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Indications and Warning (I&W), and flight safety capabilities to protect the customer's space assets.

The Systems Integrator responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as the lead technical advisor to the customer's product team supporting management of a software development program to ensure delivered space protection capabilities meet functional, system, and user requirements while staying on schedule and within cost.
• Operates as the primary facilitator to ensure cross-team collaboration to drive alignment between requirements, program objectives, and software development.
• Evaluates system architectures, designs, and development plans and advises whether they fall short, meet, or exceed enterprise technical requirements and stakeholder expectations and provides recommendations for corrective action to achieve program objectives.
• Observes, monitors, evaluates, and reports on Contractor's agile software development performance and provides recommendations to improve development and delivery in accordance with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) best pratices.
• Provides support to planning, organizing, and managing critical aspects of the program's development and deployment to include Program Increment (PI) planning, sprint closeout/demonstration events, readiness assessments, system verification and validation, and Transition to Operations (TTO) activities.
• Provides technical support for the development of pre-and-post award documents (e.g., Request for Proposals (RFPs) and Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)) and the tech evaluation of contractor proposal responses.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's and 14 or more years of experience; master's and 12 or more years of experience; PhD and 9 or more years of experience in engineering, software development, systems integration, or similar field.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience developing, testing, and fielding space and/or ground software systems.
• Experience working in SAFe Agile and/or Scrum software development frameworks.
• Intermediate to advanced level of proficiency with Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.) or other Agile management software.
• IC experience (preferably NRO) with Space Domain acquisitions or operations familiarity.
  
  Desired Qualifications:
• Experience managing technical, cost, and schedule performance of software development programs.
• Experience with MSAs and integrating Earned Value Management (EVM) with Agile software development to obtain objective performance measurement data for oversight reporting.
• Experience using Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) to support requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation.
• Certified SAFe or other agile framework with expert proficiency using Jira/Confluence.
• Familiarity applying CI/CD and DevSecOps principles, methodologies, and tools to optimize the software development lifecycle.