Systems Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services in Colorado Springs, CO. Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.  The targeted compensation is $ 130,000.00 to $135,000.00

The successful candidate will:

·         Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technologies to deliver mission capabilities

·         Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements

·         Perform general program management functions daily, to include milestone/status tracking, inter-organizational coordination; prepare and provide   briefings, review/ update classified documentation

·         Conduct technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities; coordinate recommendations with government   stakeholders and supports program status reviews

·         Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies

·         Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums

·         Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations

·         Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government   leadership

Qualifications

Required:

·         US Citizenship

·         Active TS/SCI clearance with adjudicated polygraph

·         Contract requirement:  Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience

·         Knowledge of overall space and ground architecture including ground terminal equipment (satellite antennas), telemetry/tracking/control, and/or   mission processing functions

·         Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission

·         Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development

·         Experience with mission readiness process, familiar with control gates and associated documentation, entry/exit criteria

·         Familiar with mission operations environment – ops tempo, launch and initialization, performance characterization, utility analysis, system   calibrations

·         Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems     development; validation and verification

·         Experience developing and providing oversight of Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) and detailed program schedules

·         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

Desired:

·      Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence

·      OPIR experience a plus

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.9 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.