Description

SAIC is seeking a GEOINT Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineer Technical Advisor (SETA) services for a critical position the Landmark GSS program in Chantilly, VA area.

 Landmark GSS supports the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

 As a GEOINT Systems Engineer, you will provide technical support to facilitate the development of GEOINT capabilities cooperatively with development contractors and mission partners to optimize mission success. The GEOINT Systems Engineer will actively perform engineering and analysis to ensure programs successfully develop and deliver core mission processing services in all phases of the acquisition life cycle.

Responsibilities to include: 

• Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and external stakeholders
• Manage requirements for programs and projects
• Retain cognizance of a wide variety of GEOINT mission projects including, technical baseline, project schedules, dependencies, risks, and cost
• Advise Senior and Mid-Level managers on architectural decisions to include investment strategies, acquisition portfolio priorities, risk assessment of project execution 
• Conduct Strategic planning for both mission architecture needs (technical trade studies, definition of future architecture planning, software service recommendations etc.)
• Developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) for new capabilities and coordinating them across the affected organizations
• Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements
• Accomplish performance assessment and provide estimates of cost, schedule and risk impacts to existing Ground architecture implementations
• Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements
• Scope and link requirements for proper system definition.
• Write systems engineering documents; follow and update templates for documents

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. (Additional years of exp in lieu of degree.)Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly
• Familiarity with support of Intelligence Community's (IC) GEOINT systems and capability development 
• Domain experience in Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), or Commercial IT programs
• Knowledge of GEOINT systems and overall space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
• Experience supporting agile acquisition strategy, development, and release planning, as well as continuous integration initiatives supporting mission capability releases enabling End to End GEOINT missions
• Strong organizational, time-management, and verbal / written communication skills, able to convey information across multiple customer and corporate audiences