Systems Engineer

FTS International, LLC (FTS) is committed to providing the Federal Government with quality consultants and support. To ensure mission success we focus on putting our customers first while minimizing corporate bureaucracy on our staff. We provide Subject Matter Experts (SME) free of Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) focused on independent analysis and mission support services within the disciplines of Engineering, Counter Terrorism Operations, Management, Information Technology, Signals Analysis, Administration, Cyber Security and Linguistics.

FTS has an opportunity for a Systems Engineer in Chantilly, VA.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for traditional systems engineering functions to include scheduling, risk, requirements, VV&T, configuration management and MBSE/modeling.

Responsibilities

• Systems engineering of interrelated systems acquisitions specifically cloud services, software services platform, DevSecOps, data centricity and management, data management, MBSE, enterprise governance, across organizational and system boundaries
• Engage with the national and tactical communities to collaboratively design, document, validate, and deliver architectures, systems and innovative ground capabilities in support of the national space architecture
• Research, gather and write formal requirements, translate those requirements into user stories and statements of work
• Provide schedule, requirements, configuration, and risk management support and VV&T support
• Support Agile-based program management and implementation of a model-Base Systems Engineering approach
• Systems engineering of multiple interrelated satellite ground system acquisitions specifically digital engineering and data engineering

Required Skills/Qualifications

• TS/SCI with polygraph
• HS diploma or GED plus 10+ years of experience or AS/AA degree plus 8 years of experience or a BA/BS degree plus 6 years of experience or an MA/MS degree and 4 years of experience
• Strong Systems Engineering discipline with traditional functions such as risk, requirements, configuration, or schedule management, or testing experience
• Experience working space and ground programs from architecture-definition documentation (ADD/CONOPS) through requirements derivation and allocation, performance metric generation and assessment, test case development, and requirement closure tracing

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
• Professional cert in Systems Engineering (such as DAWIA, INCOSE, MBSE such as OCSMP SysML Model Builder Intermediate), Agile, PMP
• Domain knowledge and expertise for systems engineering of multiple interrelated satellite ground system acquisitions
• IC experience w/in the last 5 years
• Experience with RDNG/DOORs requirements database management/repository, Rhapsody, SysML applications, Confluence, Jira, or JSMART
• Understand how system requirements, design, analysis, verification and validation activities are enabled by MBSE across the digital thread (the engineering lifecycle)

FTS International, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer - vets/disabled.