Portfolio Systems Engineer, SR

KBR • Chantilly, VA

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About The Position

Portfolio Systems Engineer, SR Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! 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. This position is contingent upon contract award

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other related technical discipline required
• Minimum of 15 years of overall systems engineering experience and a thorough understanding of systems engineering and acquisition processes
• Ability to derive an understanding of stakeholder needs and functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness from system requirements
• Experience supporting system requirements and system integration at the enterprise level
• Experience following a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces
• Experience with Agile project management principles and processes
• TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Some travel required

Responsibilities

• Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications
• Provide decision support and advice on investment strategies
• Provide senior-level staff support to coordinate and manage systems engineering actions and activities
• Provide technical support and assessments focused on activities that address technology research, applied technology concepts, and technology demonstrations.
• Advise management on technical risks of new and ongoing projects and review, analyze, and assess technologies, system concepts, data, and information to recommend applications of new or emerging technologies
• Perform analyses and assessments of projects to help determine their consistency with strategic direction, technology development plans, and requirements
• Support and coordinate outreach efforts with other Government agencies, industry, and academia
• Assist in portfolio management, planning, and visualization to include identifying transition and implementation opportunities
• Assist in establishing procedures and standards for managing technical development/architecture plans across the portfolio
• Review, analyze, comment, and prepare staffing documents, including plans, policies, concepts of operation, technical architectures, initiatives, and programmatic documents
• Analyze identified hardware, software, procedural, or training system shortfalls and propose technical alternatives to remedy the problem(s), applying the principles and practices of systems engineering

What This Job Offers

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