Acquisition Program Support Engineer

KBR, Inc. • Chantilly, VA

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About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense. The Acquisition Program Support Engineer will be an advisor to support multiple aspects of government program acquisition efforts. The approach to acquiring those capabilities currently uses document-based system engineering. These approaches will evolve and modernize with advances in acquisition and system engineering approaches, techniques, and tools. This positions is contingent upon contract award

Requirements

• BS/BA 10 to 12 years, or MS/MA 8 to 10 years, or PhD 5 to 7 years
• More than five years of experience in Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA), with focus on acquisition support (structure of contracts, execution of task orders and IDIQ contracts, the government competitive acquisition process)
• Familiarity with SIGINT compliance standards and associated training requirements
• Experience with Systems Engineering processes across the software development life cycle
• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Ground Enterprise programs including EDAP
• Experience with DoD/IC acquisitions, including source selection on Major System Acquisition (MSA)
• Familiarity using Confluence, JIRA, Atlassian commercial tools
• Experience or training with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) agile methodologies
• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) or Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Experience/certifications in /Systems Modeling Language (SysML)

Responsibilities

• Writing the Statement of Work for an upcoming major system acquisition (MSA)
• Defining proposal acceptance criteria, monitoring developer’s cost, schedule, and performance during execution, reviewing CDRLs, and providing innovative acquisition recommendations to solve challenging issues with the optimal courses of action
• Overseeing Task Order execution on large IDIQs developing enterprise software and services and delivering platforms and frameworks
• Advising Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) on developer performance through cost, schedule, and performance analysis and evaluation
• Translating Agile software development Solution Epics into system requirements and decomposing high-level artifacts into achievable program epics for developer release planning
• Identifying risks and providing unique courses of action to solve complex technical problems
• Reviewing contractor submissions for technical accuracy and providing government personnel detailed critical analysis

Benefits

• KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule.
• We support career advancement through professional training and development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees