Ground Architecture Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Are you looking for an opportunity to influence and make a difference in the delivery of mission capabilities? What if you could find a position that builds upon your expertise in mission data sharing strategies, capability integration and analytics, and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced professional, to support the Architecture Engineering (AE) group in our customer organization in evaluating and guiding future system architectures that enable activity-based intelligence through automated and accelerated mission delivery to our multi-agency Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD customers using the latest open source tools, trends, and data modeling techniques.

• The individual will provide Agile, DE & MBSE support implementing MBSE principles for system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities beginning with the conceptual design, continuing throughout the development and life-cycle of the project. This includes helping to champion the transition and implementation of DE & MBSE processes and standards across a large ground enterprise organization and evaluating tools for inclusion in the MBSE framework.
• The candidate will work internally across the customer enterprise to support architecture and modeling activities and initiatives to ensure consistency with and achievement of the enterprise architecture strategy and data centric objectives
• The candidate will coordinate with the AE branch chief on engagements including planning sessions, weekly team meetings and status updates to senior leadership
• The candidate will perform evaluations and assessments of how digital engineering and architecture related emerging technologies, processes, and data modeling can be leveraged to move towards greater data centricity and meet compliance requirements
• The candidate will represent customer equities, as an Agile and architecture SME, in external cross enterprise architecture governance and working forums
• The candidate will facilitate Integrated Product Teams (IPT's), and technical working groups that will promote, review and assess the maturity of engineering artifacts, CONOPS, interfaces, and architecture products in support of system and acquisition-level ground milestones, and integration of new systems and initiatives
• The selected candidate will have the aptitude to assess MBSE and SE processes and create efficiencies continuously, and may lead projects for systems teamwork, have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices.
• The candidate will have daily interactions with the customer and supporting contractors and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life-cycle.
• Candidate will interact with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and facilitate risk and action closure with Acquisition Offices and users, and support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation briefings.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with Poly
• Experience: BS with 10-12 years, MS with 8-10 years, or PhD with 5-7 years
• More than 8 years' experience with space/ground aerospace systems engineering/architecting
• BS in engineering, physics, or related technical degree
• Digital Engineering experience within IC domain
• Detailed knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT or Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture
• Expertise in mission technical capabilities, architecture and system performance analysis and assessment
• Experience in supporting Requirements Engineering, CONOPs development, and system integration within MBSE construct to accommodate End to End Systems Engineering
• Knowledge of, and experience defining and executing standards and practices
• Experience with a recognized MBSE tool
• Adaptability to define and sustain MBSE principles, processes and standards within an Agile development framework
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Project management experience for multi-organizational development
• Experience identifying user needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with direct IC customer, technical familiarity with mission processing or mission control of systems, including sensor knowledge
• Ability to work for direct IC customer and familiarity with that customer's processes and organization
• Previous experience supporting Agile initiatives in the customer's environment

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.