Systems Engineer - Data Integration & Interoperability

SAIC•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer – Data Integration & Interoperability to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of data exchange solutions across a complex ecosystem of mission systems, sensors, services, and external partners. The position serves as the program’s technical authority for data interoperability and Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI) implementation, ensuring information is accurately exchanged, transformed, routed, and consumed across internal and external interfaces. The successful candidate works across systems engineering, architecture, cyber, integration, test, cloud, and external stakeholders to define interface requirements, implement interoperability standards, troubleshoot complex data-exchange challenges, and enable rapid integration of operational capabilities. The role emphasizes UCI-based integrations, OMS-aligned architectures, machine-to-machine interoperability, and reliable exchange of operational mission data supporting command and control, ISR, and battle management functions.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance.
Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of experience, or a master’s degree and 12+ years, or a PhD/JD and 9+ years.
Experience supporting system integration, data integration, interoperability, or systems engineering activities within DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
Experience developing interface specifications, data exchanges, schemas, message definitions, or interoperability standards.
Experience supporting machine-to-machine integrations, messaging technologies, APIs, middleware, brokers, or service-oriented architectures.
Experience troubleshooting interoperability, integration, or data exchange issues across distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with UCI, OMS, XML, JSON, message schemas, service contracts, or related interoperability standards.
Experience supporting command and control, battle management, ISR, air operations, space operations, or similar mission systems.
Experience working with operational mission data and interfaces such as Link 16, VMF, IBS/CIB, MTI, NITF, FMV, or similar mission-system products.
Experience with middleware and messaging technologies such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, DDS, AMQP, MQTT, NiFi, or similar platforms.
Experience supporting ICDs, EICDs, interface governance, architecture reviews, or interoperability working groups.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Agile engineering environments.

Responsibilities

Define, document, and maintain data exchange requirements, interface specifications, and interoperability standards.
Lead development and implementation of data integration and interoperability solutions across mission systems and external partners.
Develop and maintain mappings between operational data exchanges, UCI messages, OMS interfaces, and external system interfaces.
Analyze, map, and troubleshoot mission-system data exchanges to ensure operational data is accurately translated, transformed, routed, and consumed across interconnected systems and interfaces.
Support integration of operational data sources and products, including UCI-based services, tactical data links, MTI products, NITF imagery, FMV, and related mission-system interfaces.
Collaborate with architecture, cyber, cloud, integration, and test teams to incorporate interoperability requirements throughout the system lifecycle.
Support development and review of ICDs, EICDs, interface requirements, message mappings, and data exchange documentation.
Analyze impacts of schema updates, interface changes, new data sources, and evolving interoperability requirements.
Support architecture, design, and implementation of message brokers, middleware, data translation services, and interoperability frameworks.
Troubleshoot interoperability issues during integration, testing, exercises, demonstrations, and operational events.
Support Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), Engineering Working Groups (EWGs), Change Control Boards (CCBs), and interface governance activities.
Identify opportunities to improve interoperability, data quality, automation, and scalability across the ecosystem.