Satellite Mission Management Systems Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.•Chantilly, VA

71d•$99,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Booz Allen is seeking an experienced, forward-thinking lead systems engineer to help our clients transform their satellite mission management systems to meet the challenges of the future. Satellite mission management is changing as space architectures transform from small numbers of highly complex satellites to large integrated and proliferated architectures that require fundamental new ways of transforming customer needs into mission value through satellite tasking, planning, scheduling, collection, and processing. Automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, hybrid cloud, and edge computing approaches will all play a role in meeting the future mission management challenge. Booz Allen needs your experience and expertise to build our business and support our clients to make this future a reality. As a Satellite Mission Management Systems Engineer, you will help define end-to-end solutions to for emerging space and ground system architectures for national security programs. You will leverage your knowledge of the industry and existing mission management systems and approaches in collaboration with other systems engineers, software developers, and subject matter experts to define and model candidate system architectures, conduct trade studies, and identify gaps and risks that must be addressed to successfully develop future mission management systems. You will engage with clients and industry partners to keep the team informed about the development of future space architectures and develop white papers, demonstrations, and proposals for next-generation mission management systems to continue expanding our business and mission impact. As our business grows, you will take on systems engineering team leadership roles on one or more contracts to ensure successful delivery of new mission management systems to our clients. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

1+ years of experience with national security satellite systems for SIGINT or GEOINT
Experience with satellite mission management and ground system architectures
Experience with systems engineering lifecycles on large government satellite ground systems
Experience with descriptive modeling tools such as Cameo Enterprise Architecture
Experience with engineering scripting tools such as MATLAB, Python, or VBA
Top Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience with systems engineering, or Master's degree and 6+ years of experience with systems engineering

Nice To Haves

Experience with engineering for cloud-based technologies
Experience with data fabric architecture and related technologies such as Kafka and Confluent
Experience developing satellite models and simulations for proliferated constellations
Experience developing solutions in classified environments within the Intelligence Community or Department of Defense
Experience in Agile and DevSecOps software development
Knowledge of automation techniques or artificial intelligence and machine learning
TS/SCI clearance

Responsibilities

define and model candidate system architectures
conduct trade studies
identify gaps and risks that must be addressed to successfully develop future mission management systems
engage with clients and industry partners to keep the team informed about the development of future space architectures
develop white papers, demonstrations, and proposals for next-generation mission management systems to continue expanding our business and mission impact
take on systems engineering team leadership roles on one or more contracts to ensure successful delivery of new mission management systems to our clients