GEOINT Radar Engineer

SAIC • Chantilly, VA

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About The Position

SAIC is seeking a GEOINT Radar Engineer to provide Systems Engineer Technical Advisor (SETA) services for a critical position on SAIC’s Prime Program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). As the GEOINT Radar Engineer, you will provide technical support to facilitate the development of GEOINT capabilities cooperatively with development contractors and mission partners to optimize mission success. You will also actively perform engineering and analysis to ensure programs successfully develop and deliver core mission processing services in all phases of the acquisition life cycle.

Requirements

• Systems Engineer Technical Advisor (SETA) services
• Technical support for GEOINT capabilities development
• Engineering and analysis for mission processing services
• Cognizance of GEOINT mission processing projects (technical baseline, schedules, dependencies, risks, cost)
• Advising on architectural decisions (investment strategies, acquisition portfolio priorities, risk assessment)
• Interfacing with development Prime Contractors (oversight, monitoring software development and integration)
• Ensuring alignment with Government requirements and objectives
• Working with System Engineers, Acquisition Engineers, and Domain Experts
• Strategic planning for mission architecture needs (technical trade studies, future architecture planning, software service recommendations)
• Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements
• Performance assessment and providing estimates of cost, schedule, and risk impacts
• Technical and cost assessment of vendor proposals
• Reviewing technical reports, design artifacts, and program plans
• Advancing resiliency activities/initiatives in RF technology

Responsibilities

• Retain cognizance of a wide variety of GEOINT mission processing projects including technical baseline, project schedules, dependencies, risks, and cost
• Advise Senior and Mid-Level managers on architectural decisions to include investment strategies, acquisition portfolio priorities, risk assessment of project execution
• Interface directly with development Prime Contractors in the role of oversight, monitoring of software development and integration activities and ensuring alignment with Government requirements and objectives
• Operate side-by-side with Program staff comprised of world class System Engineers, Acquisition Engineers, and Domain Experts to lead the customer in acquiring modern processing applications.
• Conduct Strategic planning for both mission architecture needs (technical trade studies, definition of future architecture planning, software service recommendations etc.) and programmatic (Program)
• Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements
• Accomplish performance assessment and provide estimates of cost, schedule, and risk impacts to existing Ground architecture implementations
• Provide technical and cost assessment of vendor proposals, review technical reports, design artifacts and program plans
• Work with the IC customer to advance resiliency activities/initiatives in RF technology

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed