Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Description

Would you like to work side-by-side with world class system engineers, acquisition professionals and domain experts in a government-contractor team delivering best of breed software applications that have direct impact on national security?

SAIC is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program, a large SETA contract supporting the customer’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). The job requires the ability to flexibly manage task execution, provide technical/professional expertise on a variety of Systems Engineering topics, and advise the government on program activities. The work will be located in Chantilly, VA. All candidates must have an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

A successful candidate in this position will bring a record of application of systems engineering and creative thought-leadership to mature and develop revolutionary multi-intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Provide technical leadership in planning capabilities needed to better support mission operations (e.g. automation, resiliency, situational awareness, etc.)

Analyze user needs, develop concepts of operation, and high-level systems architectures, and define capability needs and system requirements.

Work with government and contractor points of contact across multiple Agencies, Directorates and Offices to refine future ground system capabilities.

Identify and communicate key architecture and system level trades, system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies.

Support integration of architectures with other components of the technical baseline

Collaborate with SETA team members, engineers from various contractor and government organizations, and mission users.

Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences to convey information in crisp, articulate manner.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience.

Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Proven experience in core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes.

Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment.

Demonstrated ability to work as a team player requiring collaboration and open communication.

Strong oral and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications:

Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline

Engineering, computer science, or information systems background

Ability to build, integrate and analyze MBSE architectural representations.

Domain and tool knowledge in Agile software development practices (e.g. Scrum, DevOps, JIRA, Kanban)

Prior experience with data management services and cloud software architectures

Prior US military and/or IC customer experience

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
REQNUMBER: 2413187

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