Senior System Engineer

Solvarus•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

Solvarus Consulting is seeking a Senior System Engineer to support engineering and integration efforts with key mission partners. This role involves delivering significant modernization capabilities, identifying opportunities for mission partners to assist the customer in aligning technology transformation efforts with architecture planning, development, and implementation, and advancing modernization efforts. The position requires understanding interdependencies, communicating resource tradeoffs, and developing strategic approaches for mission transformation. Responsibilities include reviewing and drafting documentation, such as management briefs and user outreach materials, on project activities.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI Security Clearance
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
12+ years of systems engineering, systems integration, or systems development experience.
Experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including DoD/IC Acquisition Process, SAFe Agile acquisition product ownership, merging disparate architectures, CONOPS development, defining a vision for future work based on incomplete requirements, conducting imagery and/or geospatial analysis.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program.
2+ years of experience in one or more disciplines of GEOINT analytic tradecraft and analysis production system development
2+ years of experience in government acquisition processes.
1+ years of experience in agile Systems development.
Prior experience in the IC.

Responsibilities

Address architecture dependencies and ensure all strategic efforts are as aligned as possible.
Draft documentation as needed to explain both the as-is and to-be state for the project, and capture lessons learned.
Engage with mission customers and users to shape and define future capabilities.
Participate in customer and program strategic and tactical planning activities.
Participate in the development of system architectures to evolve mission services.
Strategically assess new technologies for fit-for-use by mission services, employing quantifiable and traceable criteria to enable future decision making.
Conduct AoAs and provide data-driven recommendations.
Identify key decision points and provide recommendations to support strategic objectives.
Conduct user outreach to communicate planned architecture changes, operational concepts, and project status, and accept user inputs for optimization of delivery plans.
Produce weekly activity reports for use by government customers.
Develop and present effective technical presentations to senior management and to technical/non-technical audiences; must possess strong written and verbal communications skills.
Explain technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences; and conduct issue coordination within and across agencies.
Work with customers to resolve technical and programmatic issues.