Systems Engineering Manager

Job Title: Systems Engineering Manager

Job Category: Project and Program Management

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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The Opportunity:
CACI is looking for talented Senior Program Integrator with Systems Engineering (SE) and high-profile Leadership experience in/around the Fort Meade, Maryland area. You’ll use your leadership and SE providing Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to a high priority customer mission related to advancing national defense goals and objectives.

Responsibilities:

As the Senior Program Integrator, you’ll:

• Serve as the primary interface with government leadership
• Ensure milestone accountability
• Provide staffing oversight and assigns work tasks to the team
• Conduct intra-agency engagement coordination, senior leadership briefing support, congressional inquiry coordination, and continuity of operations oversight 
• Manage the integration of multi-vendor, multi-product programs in a high-tempo and high-visibility environment.
• Support executive-level communication and briefings
• Bring your senior government leadership knowledge and experience to bear
• Be expected to anticipate stakeholder questions and concerns

You’ll oversee Systems Engineering tasks such as:

• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc.
• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.
• Participate in Integrated Product Teams to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.
• Allocate real-time process and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.
• Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan.
• Develop system design solutions that satisfy the system requirements and fulfill the functional analysis.
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structures, work packages, and the integrated master plan.
• Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle
• Derive an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred, and implied as essential to system effectiveness from system requirements.
• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers.
• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Nonrepudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, access control, hashing, key management, etc.).
   

Qualifications:

Required: 

• University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years related work experience.
• Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph.
• Proven experience in Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), and other relevant frameworks.