Systems Engineer (Expert) Job#570

Spectral Systems Engineer (Expert-Level)

TS/SCI Clearance REQUIRED

Overall Assignment Description: 

Expert-level Spectral Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a 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, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Expert-level experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Experience/Background/Skills:

• Knowledge of NGA and NRO mission, workflow, systems/segments, and interfaces.
• Self-starter - actively seeks out and assembles the appropriate parties to discover technical specifications or work-out technical issues.
• Experienced in leading integration efforts across multiple segments/systems.
• Experienced with assessing segment/system technical impacts across multiple organizations when integrating technical capabilities into the Enterprise.
• Experienced with determining and resolving inconsistencies with enterprise-level interfaces based on system documentation or acquired technical knowledge.
• Experience collecting, collating, and distilling highly technical information into meeting agendas, charts, reports, talking points, or other materials to communicate technical and programmatic progress.
• Experience identifying and tracking technical, schedule, and budgetary risks.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Digital Engineering processes and tools.

 Duties:

• Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators in a collaborative manner.
• Provides proactive programmatic and technical support.  
• Lead coordination and collaboration with multiple segments/systems to ensure clear understanding of technical requirements, and that appropriate development, testing and transition activities complete successfully and on schedule.
• Identify and track the critical path of development act