Systems Engineer/Strategist

Job Description

Description

SAIC has an immediate opening for a Systems Engineer/Strategist.  The project office is seeking an experienced senior systems expert to provide cross-domain coordination and collaboration with the objective of communicating technical requirements and understanding development constraints and limitations based on operational environments. The candidate is expected to collaborate with all components of the organization, and relevant external stakeholders for the purpose of fostering communication and ensuring a collaborative and effective environment. The candidate will develop an in-depth understanding of the technical objectives within an operational environment. The successful candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills and be an effective communicator at all levels of the project team. The candidate is expected to keep current with the development program's progress and identify potential areas or concern as it pertains to schedule and technical expectations. 

In this role you will:

• Collaborate across the project team, representing the technical requirements needed to accomplish mission objectives while seeking to understanding and respond to the functional constraints that may affect technical implementation.
• Identify information and communication gaps and develop mitigation approaches to ensure that the technical team is providing well informed and effectively to the entire project team.
• Represent the technical team across key collaboration and information transfer boundaries
• Represent the technical team in formal and informal meetings to ensure the technical requirements are appropriately understood, prioritized and utilized
• Participate in defining and validating technical requirements for a variety of developments within the office
• Engage with technical and non-technical project team members to ensure the continued effectiveness of technical solution development
• Interface effectively with contractor development teams to guide projects to successful completion

Qualifications

• Must currently hold an Active TS/SCI and Poly
• Minimum of 9 years of relevant technical experience
• Bachelor's Degree preferred, but experience is considered in lieu of a degree
• Demonstrate expertise working with multiple vendors to develop capabilities and integrate them into an overall system architecture meeting customer mission objectives
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and upper management
• Strong analytical and strategic problem solving skills
• Effective writing skills related to creating and editing strategic and technical briefings and documents
• Familiarity with SW development
• Experience with development program schedule development and tracking

Desired:

• 3+ yrs of relevant domain knowledge
• 2+ years experience designing and implementing acceptance testing for complex integrated systems
• Experience with IT and Network infrastructure design to include HW specs and selection, Operating System (both Linux and Windows), Network Topologies, and integrating centralized authentication
• Experience with at least two scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, php)
• Experience with virtualization environments (e.g. KVM, VMWARE)

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.