Senior Missile Defense System Requirements Engineer

Job Title: Senior Missile Defense System Requirements Engineer

Location: Alexandria, VA - Fort Belvoir, VA (Hybrid)

Canvas is looking for a talented Senior Missile Defense System Requirements Engineer in the National Capital Region to join our team! In this role you will get to support the implementation and execution of a disciplined systems engineering process to produce System-level technical documents necessary to establish the basis for MDA Program Office subsystem engineering and their programs of record.

Duties:

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support to the development, management, and planning for current and future missile defense capabilities.
• Support MDAs Program and Budget Review, Presidential Budget, and Program Objectives Memorandum process for missile defense planning and budgeting.
• Provide review, analysis, and recommendations on the development and addition of functional requirements, variances, and/or changes.
• Provide quality checks on analysis, documents, and presentations.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in a STEM field. *Experience may be substituted for education with customer approval.
• 12+ years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program.
• Experience in the development, management, and planning for current and future capabilities as they relates to missile defense, specifically related to the functional portion of the system.
• Experience in Program Budget Reviews and the establishment of inputs to the Presidential Budget government Program Objectives Memorandum process.
• Experience in reviewing, analyzing, and providing recommendations on the development, addition, variances, and changes to functional requirement as well as providing quality checks on technical documentation and products.
• Senior-level experience in document development, presentations, change requests, and other engineering products.
• Experience with interacting and supporting high level government customers (Senior NH-4 director-level and above)
  Understanding of Industry/DoD engineering best practices, complemented with mature communication skills.

Security Clearance:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance; Active Secret clearance desired.

Desired Experience:

• Previous MDA experience.
• Knowledge of MDA systems engineering processes.
• Knowledge of ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missile defense fundamentals.
• Verbal and written skills.
• Ability to lead and collaborative with others

Other Essential Job Functions:

• Must be willing to travel up to 10%.

About Us

Founded in 2007, Canvas connects a passion for going beyond the expected with the knowledge and expertise to deliver what our clients need now and in the future. Canvas has been recognized as a Great Place to Work Certified ™, Fortune Best Small Workplace ™, Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials ™ (2022), Best Place for Working Parents (2022 & 2023), HIRE Vets Gold Medallion Awardee (2021 & 2022), Best Places to Work Awardee, 2019 Government Contracting - Technology Business of the Year, and Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year (2018) by the Huntsville/Madison Chamber of Commerce.

Benefits of Working with Canvas

To reflect our company culture, Canvas offers an exciting array of benefits that makes up our employees' total rewards package. Those benefits may include:

• Competitive Wages*
• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Generous company-funded Basic Life Insurance
• Company-funded Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Dependent Care and Medical Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match and 100% immediate vesting
• Tuition Reimbursement for ongoing training, continuing education, or advan