Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer  with strong engineering acumen as well as lean/agile expertise to support the NRO's Integrated Systems Program Office (ISPO) with the Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED) in  Chantilly, VA . The ISPO is an OPIR Joint Program Office responsible for acquiring the Overhead Persistence GEOINT Architecture (OPGA) that will provide the user community with OPIR capabilities in a modular, open architecture that provides global, persistent, real-time surveillance and activity-based intelligence information.  

SPECIFIC TASKING:

• Work with technical staff documenting technical and programmatic requirements.
• Effectively work with development teams to track technical progress, identify blockers to progress, and assess technical solutions.
• Integrate stakeholder and system requirements, facilitate discussion and understanding of schedule impacts and trades, and enhance the digital engineering culture for the customer’s System Engineering Group.
• Engage with other systems engineers directly supporting programs to enhance cross-program integration, track solution delivery progress and assist in developing digital work products.
• Participate in and contribute to technical and programmatic interchanges; identify and resolve issues; and provide engineering and technical advice to the customer to achieve innovative capabilities.
• Support Agile process evolution across Government teams, development contractors, user engagement teams, and stakeholders.
• Apply systems analysis and design methodology assessments to identify technical debt, architectural runway and efficiency trade-offs against current and proposed/desired cloud-based software system design.
• Develop briefings and documentation material, including architecture views and technical roadmaps.
• Draft acquisition artifacts such as statements of work (SOW), Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRL), In Scope Determinations, and proposal evaluation criteria.
• Assist Government customer in monitoring program financial execution and planning.
• Provide acquisition advisory services during technical and cost evaluations of proposals.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s and five  (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience in space missions related to NRO or DoD Space Control.
• Must be a US Citizen with active TS/SCI security clearance with willingness and ability to obtain CI polygraph.
• Effective communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.
• Experience with Model and Simulation Architectures.
• Broad systems engineering experience (e.g. system architecture and design, integration of system requirements, CONOPS, systems verification to develop solutions, use of schedule and configuration management in support of program execution).
• Knowledge and experience in managing across the software development lifecycle using modern Agile approaches and tools.
• Experience or familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework Environment (SAFe).
• Knowledge or experience of Agile DevcSecOps and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Working knowledge of AGILE Scrum and SAFe software development methods.
• Working knowledge of IC principles, procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and various SE, PM tools.

**May require overnight travel up to 3 percent of the work year.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Direct OPIR, GEOINT and/or SIGINT experience.
• Direct experience supporting USAF SMC SBIRS System Program Office business operations/programs.

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