Founded in 2007, Markon is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

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Description:

Seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to support the customer in planning and implementing enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and integration practices to enable a secure and interoperable IC Information. Position is located in Bethesda, MD.

Primary Responsibilities:

 • Provide subject matter expertise for detailed planning, design, and implementation guidance to ensure successful adoption of enterprise IT systems throughout the Intelligence Community.
• Facilitate collaboration and negotiation of complex trade-offs involving separate IC policies, technology environments, and
• resources.
• Provide assessments of policies, plans, and requirements and recommend appropriate responses to address any issues surfaced to ensure comprehensive planning across communities of interest.
• Assist government client with developing programmatic goals and objectives, schedules, and reports to high-level government managers.
• Review and assess IC implementation plans to identify issues early in the plans.
• Develop and review presentation materials to communicate enterprise objectives and goals.
• Maintain schedules with significant milestones to enable accurate tracking along critical paths.
• Facilitate and resolve problems within working groups to ensure completion of goals and objectives and communicating progress to executive management.
• Communicate enterprise goals and objectives to high-level committees and working groups.
• Apply critical analytical thinking to proposed directives, recommendations and guidance documents originating from a variety of sources and provide critical comments and recommendations for improving them.
• Develop and/or maintain guiding documents, such as mission service transition plans, and CONOPs.
• Provide meeting coordination and facilitation support to IC workgroups to identify, address and implement solutions to enterprise issues.

Basic Qualifications
• Active TS/SCI CIP clearance and BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, ability to consistently provide high-quality products that are concise, thorough, and accurate.
• Ability to adapt in response to shifts in customer priorities.
• Experience collaborating with diverse IC stakeholders to drive consensus and forward progress

Preferred Qualifications
• Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or Information