Mission-Focused Systems Acquisition Analyst

AMERICAN SYSTEMS•Washington, DC

6d•$110,800 - $185,100•Hybrid

About The Position

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a hybrid acquisition–systems engineering professional to translate mission needs into executable technical solutions across the full lifecycle. The role combines government acquisition expertise, including FAR/DFARS and the DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework, with systems engineering practices spanning requirements, architecture, test and evaluation, risk, and sustainment. It works across program management, engineering, and operational stakeholders to align strategy, contracts, and technical baselines and deliver capability with measurable mission impact. The position leads mission discovery and translates operational objectives into testable requirements and acquisition artifacts; shapes acquisition strategies and integrates acquisition pathways with technical baselines and milestones; and supports systems engineering, architecture, verification, validation, and test planning. It also supports risk, cost, and schedule integration, facilitates stakeholder communication, and promotes digital engineering and Agile/DevSecOps alignment.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, or Software Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field.
At least 8 years of experience across government acquisition and systems engineering.
Demonstrated success completing at least one full lifecycle from concept to fielding.
Working proficiency with FAR/DFARS, DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework pathways, source selection processes, and contracting vehicles such as OTA and IDIQ.
Experience with requirements engineering, architecture, test and evaluation, risk management, and configuration/change control.
Familiarity with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 principles.
Exceptional ability to create clear, concise artifacts and brief senior leaders.
Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain one.

Nice To Haves

Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
Experience promoting model-based systems engineering practices and digital threads.
Experience aligning Agile backlogs and CI/CD pipelines with formal requirements and test objectives.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery with mission owners to elicit operational objectives, measures of effectiveness (MOEs), and measures of performance (MOPs), and convert them into testable requirements and acquisition artifacts.
Establish traceability from mission needs through system requirements, architecture, verification plans, and fielded performance.
Shape acquisition strategies, including FAR/DFARS-based strategies, OTAs, and IDIQ/task order structures, to align with technical maturity, risk, and schedule.
Integrate Adaptive Acquisition Framework pathways with program technical baselines and milestone criteria.
Support planning and execution of analyses of alternatives, source selection inputs, contracting packages, and sustainment strategies.
Facilitate requirements development, decomposition, and change control; maintain CONOPS, ICDs, and interface documents.
Develop or curate architecture views, such as SysML/UML and DoDAF-lite, and define verification and validation strategies.
Coordinate test and evaluation planning, including TEMP, and ensure test cases map to mission outcomes and acceptance criteria.
Run risk workshops and maintain program risk registers with mitigations tied to decision gates.
Support cost realism and ROM analyses, BOEs, and technical schedule integration with EVMS and Agile increments.
Drive decision-quality trade studies covering performance, affordability, logistics, cybersecurity, and interoperability.
Bridge engineering teams, contracting officers, program managers, and operators through clear artifacts and briefings.
Prepare concise decision memos, milestone packages, and operationally relevant dashboards.
Promote MBSE practices and digital threads for traceability.
Align Agile backlogs and CI/CD pipelines with formal requirements and test objectives.
Build architecture views and interface control documents, and manage configuration and change control.