Systems Engineer (Expert) Job# 934
About The Position
The Expert Systems Engineer assists in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and supports the Government in requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG), and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. The role operates across organizational, agency, departmental, and governmental or national boundaries, integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions. It also oversees and coordinates Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level Contractor Systems Engineers. The engineer supports requirements planning and traceability, architecture analysis, system improvement, and review of cloud service capabilities, workflows, and scheduling limitations. The position advises on solution-design changes, helps translate mission and customer needs into system and capability requirements, allocates requirements to architecture components and programs, and supports systems integration. It also contributes to alternatives and courses-of-action analyses, trade studies, engineering assessments, technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design. The role provides expert technical advice to the Government on vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability development. The engineer is expected to demonstrate knowledge of NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises, communicate candidly and promptly about delivery risks and setbacks, propose mitigations, incorporate lessons learned, and arrive prepared for meetings.
Requirements
- A Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical or scientific field, or 18 or more years of experience as a Systems Engineer.
- At least 18 years of relevant Government or industry experience, including work in DoD/IC acquisition, requirements, PPBES, or systems engineering of large complex Systems of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
- Experience with and a strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle.
- TS/SCI clearance adjudication, or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
Nice To Haves
- Doctorate in Systems Engineering or a related technical or scientific field.
- Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering processes, tools, and languages.
- Software Development Framework certification.
- INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
- Professional Engineer licensure.
- Membership or leadership participation in ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.
- Extensive work experience in geospatial intelligence.
- Experience engineering solutions using cloud-based technologies.
- Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
- Experience engineering solutions using automation, augmentation, and artificial intelligence technologies.
- Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
Responsibilities
- Assist in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis.
- Assist the Government in directing engineering work across the NSG, ASG, and Federal Agencies.
- Plan and analyze user requirements, trace requirements and architectures, review procedures and problems, and identify opportunities to automate or improve systems.
- Review cloud service capabilities, workflows, and scheduling limitations.
- Advise the Government on proposed solution-design changes based on requirements analysis and new technology.
- Help capture and translate mission and customer needs into system and capability requirements and solutions.
- Support analysis and allocation of requirements to system architecture components and executing programs.
- Assist the Government with systems integration activities.
- Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives, Courses of Action, trade studies, and engineering assessments.
- Assist the Government with strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
- Provide expert advice on vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability development.
- Integrate multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, departmental, and governmental or national boundaries.
- Oversee and coordinate Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level Contractor Systems Engineers.
- Share salient facts, provide candid feedback on deliverable achievability, promptly communicate setbacks, propose mitigation actions, and incorporate lessons learned.
- Arrive on time and prepared to actively participate in meetings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
