Data Interoperability Systems Engineer for Mission Exchange

SAIC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Science Applications International Corp. is seeking a Systems Engineer – Data Integration & Interoperability to lead data exchange solutions across mission systems, sensors, services, and external partners in Chantilly, VA.

You will define interface requirements, implement interoperability standards, and troubleshoot data exchanges, focusing on UCI-based integrations and OMS-aligned architectures to enable rapid integration of operational capabilities.

Qualifications

• 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.

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, ensuring 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 ensure interoperability requirements are incorporated throughout the system lifecycle.
• 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.

Skills

System integration

Data interoperability

Interoperability standards

System engineering

Education

Bachelor’s + 14+ years

Master’s + 12+ years

PhD/JD + 9+ years

Tools

Kafka

ActiveMQ

DDS

AMQP

MQTT

NiFi

Job description

Science Applications International Corp. is seeking a Systems Engineer – Data Integration & Interoperability to lead data exchange solutions across mission systems, sensors, services, and external partners in Chantilly, VA.

You will define interface requirements, implement interoperability standards, and troubleshoot data exchanges, focusing on UCI-based integrations and OMS-aligned architectures to enable rapid integration of operational capabilities.