Systems Engineer

Description

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DESCRIPTION: SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services in a dynamic, multi-organizational environment in Colorado Springs, CO . Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with current polygraph is required to start and must be maintained. Target compensation is $145,000.00 to $150,000.00.

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The successful candidate will :

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  Understand and perform general program management functions, to include milestone/status tracking, inter-organizational coordination and liaison, prepare and provide briefings/presentations, and review/edit/update classified documentation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Qualifications

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QUALIFICATIONS

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Required:

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  U.S. Citizenship.

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  Active TS/SCI clearance with current adjudicated polygraph.

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  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.

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

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  Program lifecycle experience from concept development through decommission.Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.

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

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

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

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  Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.

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  Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.

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  Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.

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  Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project.

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Desired:

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

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  Familiar with satellite system sustainment.

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  Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence.

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  Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) experience a plus.

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Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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REQNUMBER: 2506928

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SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability