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 provides systems engineering and technical advisory services.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the integration of mission systems
• Responsible for system engineering, risk process management, configuration management, and technical execution of projects
• Conducts technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities
• Coordinate recommendations with government stakeholders and supports program status reviews
• Provide program management experience for new capabilities, evaluates technologies, schedules, milestones, while balancing local and enterprise impacts across the organization
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations (CONOPS), and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements
• Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
• Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations
• Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Required Skills/Qualifications

• TS/SCI with polygraph
• BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
• 10+ years' relevant experience
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
• Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems development, validation and verification
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Preferred Skills/Qualifications

• MS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline

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