Senior Systems Engineer

Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic ACI is seeking a senior Systems Engineer to guide engineering teams in a multi-discipline approach for NSG/ASG and federal agencies, ensuring timely and accurate GEOINT. You will lead requirements and solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, and test across complex systems and cloud-based environments.

Requirements include a TS/SCI clearance and 12+ years in DoD/IC settings, with a strong lifecycle and traceability background. NGA/NSG/ASG program experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in government or industry in DoD/IC contexts and large System of Systems.
• Experience with NSG/ASG and NGA/NRO programs.
• Understanding of systems engineering lifecycle and cloud/hybrid infra.

Responsibilities

• Guide senior teams across requirements, solutions, scheduling, reliability, and test across NSG/ASG and federal agencies.
• Lead traceability planning, architecture analysis, and cloud/workflow constraints.
• Develop solution designs from requirements and new technology analyses.
• Assist Government in translating mission needs into system requirements and capabilities.
• Support allocation of requirements to architecture components and program execution.
• Perform systems integration activities and analyses (AoAs, CoAs, Trade Studies).
• Support strategic technical planning, risk management, and interface design.
• Operate at a major systems acquisition level across organizational and agency boundaries.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Systems engineering lifecycle

NSG/ASG knowledge

DoD/IC acquisition process

Requirements engineering

Solutions engineering

Model-Based Systems Engineering

Digital engineering

SOA environments

Program/project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering or related STEM field

Master’s degree in Systems Engineering (desired)

Job description

Strategic ACI is seeking a senior-level Systems Engineers to guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to 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.

Responsibilities:

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing 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.
• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Performs systems integration activities.
• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the ability to pass a polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.
• 12+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Working knowledge of Digital Engineering, processes, and tools.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.
• INCOSE Certified Systems engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
  1. ACSM
  2. ASCE
  3. ASPRS
  4. OGC
  5. SAREM
  6. USGIF
• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.