Systems Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead agile systems engineering and integration efforts across national security space programs. You will translate mission needs into technical specifications and trace requirements through RVTM, collaborating across teams to optimize architectures for mission success.

Candidates should have DoDAF experience, cloud awareness, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of systems engineering experience including architecture, design, and requirements management.
• 4+ years in requirements management tools and processes.
• Experience producing operational and technical architecture products using DoDAF.
• Experience with end-to-end mission workflow analysis and system-of-systems integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile systems engineering and integration efforts for national security space programs.
• Translate mission needs into actionable system requirements and specifications.
• Manage RVTM and coordinate across teams; communicate changes via ERB.
• Contribute to cloud technologies adoption and modern software lifecycle practices.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

DoDAF

Agile

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Systems Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to impact the National Security Space Sector? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications, makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. As a leader in systems engineering, we are looking for you to solve complex problems and shape national security space systems by leading agile systems engineering and integration efforts. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Share your expertise through requirements management processes within planning, design, implementation, testing, and release phases of a developmental and operational system’s life cycle, while broadening your skillset into areas like cloud architecture and modern software lifecycle management. You will trace requirements, acceptance criteria, performance requirements, and key performance parameters (KPPs). Additionally, you will identify gaps between requirements and development team activities, coordinate across teams to update the Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RVTM), and communicate changes through the Engineering Review Board (ERB). You will also apply mission engineering principles to analyze mission threads, align system capabilities to operational needs, and ensure architectures are optimized for mission success across the space enterprise. Grow your skills by merging systems engineering and agile adoption of cloud technologies to create a resilient ground system infrastructure for space domain awareness across national security space programs. Join our team and create the future of Intelligence Community space programs! Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 6+ years of experience with systems engineering including system architecture and design, requirements analysis and management, interface definition, verification and validation, and trade study development
• 4+ years of experience with requirements management tools and processes
• Experience creating and managing operational, system, and technical architecture products, such as OVs, SVs, and TVs, using DoDAF
• Experience conducting end-to-end mission workflow analysis to support design trades, capability assessments, and system-of-systems integration
• Experience with systems engineering support for development, operations, or sustainment within DoD or Intelligence Community programs
• Ability to convey complex engineering concepts to varied audiences
• Ability to develop, communicate, and maintain mission-level architectures aligned with DoD or IC standards and frameworks
• Ability to translate mission needs into actionable system requirements and technical specifications
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

Nice If You Have:

• Experience engineering systems hosted in cloud-based infrastructures
• Experience working in Agile development environments, including Agile tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of Intelligence Community mission areas, processes, and frameworks
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possession of strong organizational skills to manage complex technical tasks
• Agile Certification such as SAFe Agilist Certification
• Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Compensation

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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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