SCI Poly

Peraton•Fort Meade, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Senior Mission Needs Systems Engineer to join their Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. This full-time position requires 1880 hours of support per year and is performed at a customer location. As a Mission Needs Advisor Systems Engineer, the role involves providing systems engineering support for the customer’s high-level end-to-end IT requirements definition, specifically supporting the predesign step of the customer’s enhanced solution process. Key tasks include writing Mission Need requests (high-level functional system requirements) and analyzing mission needs in development, which encompasses initial scoping, identifying deficiencies, and determining affected domains and potential remedies. The position also involves supporting the initial scoping and categorization of the effort required for solutions, graphically depicting and presenting these to decision-making boards.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related discipline and at least 20 years of systems engineering experience
A Master’s or PhD Degree may be substituted for two years of experience
A High School Diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable
Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Nice To Haves

Significant experience with Intelligence Community customers, their missions and infrastructures
Clear customer interface experience and skill with Cognitive Task/Work Analysis (CTA/CWA) or similar user-centered knowledge elicitation techniques
Demonstrated ability to translate user interviews/observations into domain descriptions, workflow diagrams, and identify problem areas within
Employ sound system engineering and human-machine interaction principles to develop, vet with customers, and refine high-level conceptual designs in response to identified problems
Metrics experience to include ability to use automation to generate effective reports, dashboards, and metrics that can be effectively used by Senior Leadership to make decisions and provide real-time tracking and reporting of mission need operational status
Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with customers
Demonstrated customer interface experience in eliciting technical requirements
Experience working on project development from requirements definition to deployment

Responsibilities

Provide systems engineering support to the customer’s high-level end-to-end IT requirements definition by supporting the predesign step of the customer’s enhanced solution process
Support writing the Mission Need requests (high-level functional system requirements)
Provide analysis of the mission needs in development, including initial scoping, identification of deficiencies to be resolved by the solution, identification of affected domains and potential remedies to be evaluated
Support the initial scoping and categorization of the effort required to provide the solution, which shall be graphically depicted and presented to decision-making boards