GEOINT Systems Engineer: SDLC & Integration Expert

Intelligence Careers; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelligence Careers seeks a Systems Engineer to drive design, development, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of systems across the lifecycle for GEOINT missions. The role focuses on translating requirements into capabilities, and validating systems to meet mission needs.

You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, manage integration efforts, and ensure alignment with ITIL/Agile practices while supporting complex architectures and future scalability.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in planning across full lifecycle of an engineering project.
• Understanding of SDLC methodologies for planning, designing, developing, testing, and deploying a system.
• Experience identifying insights from SI outputs and communicating findings to stakeholders.
• Experience with integration efforts for components and data in complex systems/applications.

Responsibilities

• Apply a structured approach to design, develop, implement, maintain, and optimize systems across the lifecycle.
• Capture requirements and translate them into capabilities across GEOINT enterprise.
• Test, verify, and validate systems and services to meet mission needs.
• Partner with multi-disciplinary stakeholders to document and coordinate activities.

Skills

SDLC knowledge

Requirements gathering

Test & Evaluation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

24 semester hours in related fields (option A, B, or C)

4 years IT/systems engineering experience

Job description

Intelligence Careers seeks a Systems Engineer to drive design, development, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of systems across the lifecycle for GEOINT missions. The role focuses on translating requirements into capabilities, and validating systems to meet mission needs.

You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, manage integration efforts, and ensure alignment with ITIL/Agile practices while supporting complex architectures and future scalability.