Systems/Project Engineer - Senior

Job Status: Position is active and funded.

Location: Springfield, VA and St Louis, MO (onsite)

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 looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Systems/Project Engineer to join our team. Senior Project Engineers execute engineering tasks, taking a multi-discipline approach to full lifecycle engineering including but not limited to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. They provide a substantial portion, if not all of, the engineering support to the teams to which they are assigned.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Perform the full lifecycle of engineering support including but not limited to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability analysis, resiliency analysis, development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability analysis, and decommissioning.
• Provide engineering support for requirements across the NSG and ASG.
• Lead the planning, documenting, analysis, and traceability of user requirements and architectures.
• Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
• Support RFP development and generate engineering documentation for RFPs.
• Provide proposal evaluation support as requested by the government.
• Provide architectural support.
• Identify industry and NGA standards and create Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy (MC&G) unique standards for open architecture, service centric architecture, service oriented architecture, and cloud architecture for inclusion in MC&G RFPs, existing contracts, and government development efforts.
• Brief assigned activities as required.
• Work cross project with other MC&G projects to facilitate transition from concept to development to sustainment to decommissioning.
• Work across NGA, NSG, and ASG partners to include but not limited to NGA/MC&G, NGA/SF, NGA/R, NGA/TD, NGA/TA, DoD, FAA, and foreign partners, to provide engineering support to advance the Foundation GEOINT mission.
• Support MC&G leadership priorities and guidance.
• Provide modeling and simulation analysis.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations on how to automate or improve existing systems and workflows.
• Evaluate cloud environments for efficiency, redundancy, and utilization improvements and provide recommendations.
• Develop solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Assist the Government in the capture of mission and customer requirements/needs and translation into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Support the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
• Provide recommendations on process improvements and implement those improvements upon approval by the GPOC.
• Drive inefficiencies out of MC&G’s processes.
• Assist the Government integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions (MSA) across organizational and agency boundaries.
• Assist the Government in developing and maintaining MSA documentation.
• Guide Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences. A degree in Systems Engineering, Project Management, or similar non-technical field does not satisfy this requirement.
• Senior-level demonstrated 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.
• Senior-level demonstrated experience with systems engineering lifecycle.
• Certified as an INCOSE System Engineering Professional (CSEP) or DAWIA (level III) in IT or SPRDE or certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) or Software Development Framework.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences or in project management or engineering management.
• Senior-level demonstrated experience in geographic information systems, geodetic sciences, or related fields.
• Senior-level demonstrated experience with Foundation GEOINT data domains and mission areas.
• Senior-level demonstrated experience with NGA Process and tools, to include System Engineering, Acquisition, Configuration Management, Readiness and Security.
  
  

Essential Job Functions

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

The Physical Requirements Of This Position Include

• Excellent communication and coordination skills. Strong writing skills.
• Ability to work for 8 hours/day in a customer’s cubicle SCIF environment
  
  

Education Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences. A degree in Systems Engineering, Project Management, or similar non-technical field does not satisfy this requirement.

Years Of Experience

• 12 years w/ Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years w/ Master's Degree
  
  

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.

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

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