DESCRIPTION: Team Stratos is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory services at NRO/MOD/OE in CHANTILLY, VA. The successful candidate will:
- Lead and oversee technical efforts of eight systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services ranging from tactical support (e.g. configuration management, board facilitation, action tracking, etc.) to strategic services (e.g. technical planning, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, etc.)
- Continually assess team's tasks; realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate; drive projects, customer requirements to closure
- Working with Contract Element Lead and Government managers, maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency
- Provide technical support to government points of contacts; Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
- Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government – across the MOD enterprise
- Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Demonstrated leadership success on variety of complex systems engineering projects impacting mission operations
- In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
- Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and/or mission processing functions
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
- Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
- Experience in mission operations environment – ops tempo, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations
- Familiar with digital engineering, systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.); cloud technologies
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project)
- Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Poly
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Contract requirement: Bachelors of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required; 13 years' technical experience
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications