Senior Systems Engineer / Technical Advisor

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first.  At ManTech International Corporation, you will help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Systems Engineer / Technical Advisor to join our Rushmore FOS team supporting the Mission Integration Directorate (MID) Technical Division.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical support and assessments focused on Intelligence Community (IC) activities that address technology, research, applied technology concepts and technology demonstrations. 

• Support, coordinate and manage systems engineering actions and activities.

• Advise MID management and staff on the technical risks of new and ongoing projects, and review, analyze and assess technologies, system concepts, data and information to recommend applications of new or possibly emerging technologies to meet MID needs.

• Perform analyses and assessments of MID projects or activities to help determine their consistency with the MID and group strategic direction, technology development plans, NRO requirements and MID strategic goals and objectives.

• Support and coordinate MID outreach efforts with NRO offices, other Government agencies, industry and academia.

• Assist in establishing procedures and standards for managing technical development / architecture plans across the MID Enterprise.

• Assist in MID Enterprise assessments, planning and visualization to include identifying transition and implementation opportunities.

• Review, analyze, comment and prepare staffing documents including plans, policies, concepts of operation, technical architectures, initiatives and programmatic documents.

• Possess and articulate an awareness and understanding of key products, services and capabilities across intelligence domains (i.e., GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT, etc)

• Understanding and awareness of ground and space-based architectures and the connections between them.

• As directed, provide decision support, expertise and advice for building future Intelligence Program Budget Submissions (IPBS), NRO Program Objective Memorandums (POM), Congressional Justification Books (CJB) and Congressional Budget Justification Book (CBJB) inputs that are formulated with investment strategies that map MID efforts with IC requirements.

• Serve as key advisor in support of a Research and Development Lab Facility (innovation, rapid prototyping and compliance),

• Serve as key advisor to cybersecurity initiatives,

• Support special studies and assessments as directed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years and 7 or more years of technical experience

• System Engineering experience

• GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT experience

• Ground and space-based architectures experience

• Research and Development experience

• Cybersecurity experience

• Intelligence Community (IC) experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong presentation skills (oral and written) for senior government managers

• NRO experience

• Innovative, proactive, collaborative mindset with ability to work across multiple functional disciplines (Technical, Programmatic, Financial, Business / Contractual)

Security Clearance Requirements:

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time

• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer

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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. ManTech 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.

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