Systems Engineer Senior-Level 112-149

Systems Engineer Senior-Level supports NGA's Compartmented GEOINT Program Management Office (CGPMO), and specifically, the Enterprise Schedule Management and Risk functions within.  This individual focuses on providing program and customer leadership, developing the overall view of the health of the schedule enterprise, risks and dependencies, deep dive achievability assessments of development contractor schedules and performance metrics on program deliverables and risks. Selected candidate will work side by side with government and contractor teammates to develop/leverage tools for visualization and management of the CGPMO schedule management and risk data.

Duties include:

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies. 

• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. 

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions. 

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and  executing programs. 

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities. 

• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design. 

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries 

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with government leadership and enterprise schedule management subject matter experts to design and maintain tools to be leveraged across the customer's enterprise which allow agency personnel to be able to visualize schedule management and risk data.

• Work with government and contractor personnel supporting architecture, release management, and other teams as required to design and develop approaches to integrate data to be presented with tools developed for the management and visualization of the enterprise schedule management data.

• Ensure that tools developed for the management and visualization of the enterprise schedule management and risk data include required security and access controls.

• Provide status and updates to government, program and team leadership regarding programmatic and technical progress achieved toward timely delivery of solutions.

• Provide briefings to internal team and assist with briefings to senior government customers.

• Work collaboratively in a multi-contractor/FFRDC environment.

• Assists government in performing systems integration activities.

• Explains technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences.

• Established effective customer relationships with senior level government personnel with the ability to work independently and within a team environment.

• Leads the preparation of documents, records, forms, reports and plans covering systems engineering and integration activities responsible for delivering complex schedules while identifying critical paths and cross project dependencies and risks.

Education and Experience:

Required 

• 12+ Exp. Gov't/Industry (DoD/IC Acq, Requirements, PPBES or SE or Large, Complex SoS or SOA/Cloud Environments, or relevant work areas)

• Bachelor's degree 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.

• 8+ years experience in Systems Engineering Lifecycle

• 8+ years experience in Managing Systems Interfaces / End-to-End Systems Integration

• 8+ years experience supporting the assessment, evaluation and deployment of new or emerging technologies into operations or the architectural impacts and a recommendation path forward.

• 3+ years experience in Project Management or Team Leadership

• Demonstrated experience with schedule planning tools, specifically MS Project and Primavera

• Demonstrated experience with JIRA and VBA

• Demonstrated experience creating an integrated master schedule, identifying and tracking activities and major tasks, assignments, milestones, dependencies and risks.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.