SME Systems Engineer Architect - Military veterans preferred

Description

 

 

Join a winning team!  SAIC’s National Security Customer Group (NSCG) is currently hiring for a customer within the Intelligence Community (IC) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating national security-related systems based in space, in the air, and on the ground. SAIC is a strong company providing opportunities for energetic individuals with a strong desire to expand their knowledge while increasing their responsibilities.

 

 

 

SAIC has an opening for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Systems Engineer Architect to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the enterprise architecting, analysis, and systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems.

 

 

 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

 

• Working across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs

• Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and external stakeholders

• Identifying and defining future space capability needs

• Identifying key architecture and system level trades

• Developing strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architectures

• Assessing the performance of current and future architecture concepts

• Providing technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process

• Developing architecture models to capture the holistic view of the enterprise

• Preparing briefings for senior decision makers

 

 

 

 

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 20 years of relevant experience

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

• Proven experience with technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing

• Expert-level proficiency with use of architecting to support senior level enterprise decision making

• Expert-level proficiency with architecture tools

• Proven experience with the use of architecting across IC

• Architecture domain understanding from a holistic enterprise perspective

• Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs, impacts, and advancement

• Proven experience in development and use of modeling for architecture solutions

• Expert-level understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes

• Experience with lifecycle readiness from System Requirements Review through system decommissioning

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums

  Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline

• Experience with IC customer’s Request for Change (RFC) process and the Engineering Review Board process

• Knowledge of Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF)

• Knowledge of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

• Experience in Cameo, Rhapsody, and SysML applications

• Prior US military and/or IC customer experience