Systems Engineer - Senior (Schedule and Risk)

Job Stat us: Position is active/funded and contingent on customer acceptance.

Location: Springfield, Virginia (on site)

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Background:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. This position supports NGA's Compartmented GEOINT Program Management Office (CGPMO), and specifically, the Enterprise Schedule Management and Risk functions within. This individual focuses on providing program and customer leadership, developing the overall view of the health of the schedule enterprise, risks and dependencies, deep dive achievability assessments of development contractor schedules and performance metrics on program deliverables and risks. Selected candidate will work side by side with government and contractor teammates to develop/leverage tools for visualization and management of the CGPMO schedule management and risk data.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with government leadership and enterprise schedule management subject matter experts to design and maintain tools to be leveraged across the customer's enterprise which allow agency personnel to be able to visualize schedule management and risk data.
• Work with government and contractor personnel supporting architecture, release management, and other teams as required to design and develop approaches to integrate data to be presented with tools developed for the management and visualization of the enterprise schedule management data.
• Ensure that tools developed for the management and visualization of the enterprise schedule management and risk data include required security and access controls.
• Provide status and updates to government, program and team leadership regarding programmatic and technical progress achieved toward timely delivery of solutions.
• Provide briefings to internal team and assist with briefings to senior government customers.
• Work collaboratively in a multi-contractor/FFRDC environment.
• Assists government in performing systems integration activities.
• Explains technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences.
• Established effective customer relationships with senior level government personnel with the ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Leads the preparation of documents, records, forms, reports and plans covering systems engineering and integration activities responsible for delivering complex schedules while identifying critical paths and cross project dependencies and risks.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related STEM degree program.
• 12 years of experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience in managing system interfaces and end-to-end systems integration of new and existing capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with schedule planning tools, specifically MS Project and Primavera
• Demonstrated experience with JIRA and VBA
• Demonstrated experience creating an integrated master schedule, identifying and tracking activities and major tasks, assignments, milestones, dependencies and risks.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the assessment, evaluation and deployment of new or emerging technologies into operations or the architectural impacts and a recommendation path forward.
• Demonstrated experience in project management or technical team leadership.

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience



The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to identify the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental duties of the position that must be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation.

The essential functions of this position include:

• Ability to work onsite in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) environment, as required
• Ability to collaborate effectively with government customers, technical teams, and cross-functional partners
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and remain in a stationary position for extended periods
• Ability to analyze requirements and contribute to technical solutions in a mission-driven environment
• Ability to manage assigned tasks and deliver quality work under deadlines
• Ability to analyze complex system requirements and develop technical recommendations
• Ability to contribute to systems engineering, integration, and evaluation efforts across the lifecycle
• Ability to support technical planning, risk identification, and system improvement initiatives
• Ability to work independently while contributing to team objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under deadlines
• Ability to comply with all security requirements, including handling classified information in secure environments

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related STEM degree program.

Years of Experience:

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of work experience in the systems engineering discipline with a Bachelor's

Position Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply. ACS is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a workplace free from unlawful discrimination in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

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$160,000 - $185,000 per year