Systems Engineer (Expert-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:

Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading 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.

Experience/Background/Skills:

• Knowledge of NGA and NRO mission, workflow, systems/segments, and interfaces.

• Self-starter - actively seeks out and assembles the appropriate parties to discover technical specifications or work-out technical issues.

• Experienced in leading integration efforts across multiple segments/systems.

• Experienced with assessing segment/system technical impacts across multiple organizations when integrating technical capabilities into the Enterprise.

• Experienced with determining and resolving inconsistencies with enterprise-level interfaces based on system documentation or acquired technical knowledge.

• Experience collecting, collating, and distilling highly technical information into meeting agendas, charts, reports, talking points, or other materials to communicate technical and programmatic progress.

• Experience identifying and tracking technical, schedule, and budgetary risks.

• Working knowledge of Agile and Digital Engineering processes and tools.

Duties:

• Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators in a collaborative manner.

• Provides proactive programmatic and technical support.  

• Lead coordination and collaboration with multiple segments/systems to ensure clear understanding of technical requirements, and that appropriate development, testing and transition activities complete successfully and on schedule.

• Identify and track the critical path of development activities, identify and track action items.

• Consolidate, de-conflict, and help prioritize existing and future requirements across development efforts, integrators, partners, and other stakeholders.

• Identify programmatic and technical risks to the program.  Work with client lead to mitigate and address these risks.

• Interface with client to understand and draft responses to upcoming data calls and briefing packages.

• Interface with stakeholders, both formally on behalf of the client and informally, to understand current and future requirements.

• Assist in the development of technical strategy.  Coordinate and track new and existing requirements, define trades and help define the client's technical direction.

• Assist with development and coordination of program roadmaps.

Education and Experience:

• 18 years' experience.

• 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.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly