Mission Operations and Weapons and Tactics -SME | Top Secret clearance w/SCI eligibility

AMERICAN SYSTEMS•Arlington, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a Mission Operations and Weapons and Tactics Subject Matter Expert to support the Mission Engineering and Integration Team in Arlington, Virginia. The role serves as the operational voice of the mission, translating warfighter needs, mission workflows, weapons and tactics considerations, and partner requirements into integration priorities that deliver measurable mission value. The successful candidate will advise operational users and technical teams, work across complex classified environments, and communicate mission impacts, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders. This requisition is for potential upcoming work and does not represent a current opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted when the work and funding become available.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain SAP access.
Bachelor’s degree in operations, aviation, engineering, defense studies, information systems, military science, or a related field; relevant operational experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
8 to 10 years of related experience in military or intelligence operations, mission operations, weapons and tactics, operational test, mission planning, command and control, or a comparable defense environment.
Demonstrated expertise translating operational needs and user workflows into clear requirements, mission scenarios, acceptance criteria, readiness criteria, and integration priorities.
Experience advising Government and technical stakeholders on mission impacts of data availability, application onboarding, user access, releasability, authorization decisions, classification, and cross-domain constraints.
Experience leading or influencing requirements discussions, integration design reviews, operational readiness reviews, mission-validation events, and post-deployment reviews.
Working knowledge of classified operations, information domains, partner data-sharing constraints, access-control policies, and operational risk.
Experience developing operational artifacts, including mission scenarios, test plans, validation criteria, readiness-review inputs, runbooks, handoff materials, and risk assessments.
Experience with mission-planning, command-and-control, operational-reporting, briefing, and secure-collaboration tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior Government, mission, technical, and partner stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Translate mission needs, weapons and tactics considerations, user workflows, partner requirements, and desired outcomes into intake records, need statements, and integration requirements.
Define operational context, including mission, data, system, platform, requesting-team, partner, and user ownership, as well as urgency and timelines.
Assess mission dependencies across applications, data products, use cases, decision timelines, operational workflows, and mission impacts.
Advise on operational priorities, data value, releasability, user-access needs, workflow constraints, training needs, and mission acceptance criteria.
Participate in design, compliance, and readiness reviews to ensure classification, information-domain, partner-access, authorization, ABAC, and cross-domain decisions support mission execution.
Coordinate with Government stakeholders, internal teams, and partner organizations to validate requirements, resolve operational issues, and remove integration barriers.
Develop operational artifacts and inputs, including interface documentation, mission scenarios, test plans, validation criteria, readiness reviews, runbooks, and handoff materials.
Validate integrated capabilities from a mission operations perspective, including data usability, application behavior, access decisions, workflow performance, resilience, and readiness.
Support production transitions through cutover planning, post-deployment reviews, incident-impact assessments, lessons learned, user feedback, and improvement-backlog prioritization.
Provide expert guidance on mission operations, weapons and tactics, partner coordination, training needs, operational risk, and mission integration throughout the capability lifecycle.
Brief senior Government, mission, technical, and partner stakeholders on operational value, mission impacts, risks, dependencies, and recommended courses of action.