GEOInt Systems Engineer (TS/SCI Cleared)

Company: Assured Consulting Solutions
Location: Springfield, Virginia or Chantilly, VA (on site)
Employment type: Full-time
Salary: 145000–170000 USD per year

Job Status: Position is funded and contingent upon customer acceptance.

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Background

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are seeking a Senior-Level GEOINT Systems Engineer with hands-on experience across the Systems Engineering & Integration Lifecycle (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, CONOPS, Integration, Test, Transition) to support a variety of enterprise transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems and projects. The ideal candidate has expertise with the GEOINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) Architecture and will bring a critical-thinking mindset to strategic enterprise architecture and technical planning, engineering analyses, and cross-organization coordination and integration activities to modernize the GEOINT architecture and advance GEOINT mission capabilities.

As a member of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division’s Integration Team, you will work alongside Expert, Senior, Mid, and Junior Engineer and Integrator teammates to conduct a wide variety of analyses (e.g., Architecture Gap Analysis, Enterprise Requirements Analysis, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (COAs), and Trade Studies), developing recommendations that will inform investment decisions (e.g., system divestitures and consolidation). You will apply your Systems Engineering and Integration knowledge to support a variety of integration activities across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs), ensuring synchronization of activities and documentation of the Enterprise baseline (e.g., architecture, requirements, interfaces). You will leverage your knowledge of the Joint Enterprise Ground and Space Architecture and lead end-to-end integration projects between NGA and its Mission Partners, from project planning through Transition to Operations (TTO).

Working within NGA’s Digital Engineering Environment, you will help to facilitate the development of integrated project plans, requirements, epics, target state architectures, CONOPS, and roadmaps. You will lead / participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams focused on Analytic, Collection Management, Data Services, Foundation GEOINT, and Information Technology modernization, ensuring integrated solutions and capability deliveries.

Duties include (but are not limited to)

In partnership with Systems Engineer, Integrator, and Architecture Teammates:

• Perform architecture gap analysis and develop the Future State Enterprise Architecture.
• Conduct engineering analyses to inform GEOINT Mission and IT capability investment decisions in alignment with the Enterprise Architecture baseline.
• Conduct baseline analysis, driving allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs and end-to-end traceability of requirements, architecture, etc.
• Capture and translate mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Perform systems integration activities across organizations; lead and participate in integrated project teams, driving the development of project plans, architecture and engineering artifacts (e.g., CONOPS), roadmaps / schedules, Risks, etc.
• Lead / participate in Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Provide thought leadership, identifying opportunities to expand team scope and defining project plans to capture team tasking, deliverables, and execution timelines.
• Participate in NGA Governance, Configuration Management, and Risk Management processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in 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 equivalent Senior level experience as a Systems Engineer.
• Senior-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Years of Experience

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of work experience (ideally with a Bachelor's Degree - more years of experience can replace degree)

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive experience / working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED Architecture (Data Providers, Systems / Services, Interfaces, Data Flows)
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises
• Demonstrated knowledge of transformational initiatives, such as Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Cloud, and/or Edge Nodes
• Experience leading cross-organization Working Groups, Tiger Teams, and/or IPTs
• Experience leading large-scale, complex enterprise transitions
• Experience conducting a variety of engineering analyses, from project plan development through recommendation out-brief
• Experience with agile project management tools, such as Jira and Confluence
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification(s)
• Experience / working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools, and languages

Essential Job Functions

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to identify the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental duties of the position that must be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation.

The essential functions of this position include:

• Ability to work onsite in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) environment, as required
• Ability to collaborate effectively with government customers, technical teams, and cross-functional partners
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and remain in a stationary position for extended periods
• Ability to analyze requirements and contribute to technical solutions in a mission-driven environment
• Ability to manage assigned tasks and deliver quality work under deadlines
• Ability to analyze complex system requirements and develop technical recommendations
• Ability to contribute to systems engineering, integration, and evaluation efforts across the lifecycle
• Ability to support technical planning, risk identification, and system improvement initiatives
• Ability to work independently while contributing to team objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under deadlines
• Ability to comply with all security requirements, including handling classified information in secure environments

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in 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 equivalent Senior level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Position Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day

Export Control

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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