IT Subject Matter Expert

Job ID: 2512232

Location: BETHESDA, MD, US

Date Posted: 2025-12-09

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance.

We are seeking a strategic, organized, and proactive Information Technology (IT) subject matter expert (SME) and thought leader with expertise in technical areas, specializing in Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, and associated platforms and tools. As the IT SME, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and will advise the Government Program Manager (PM) regarding technical questions and issues that may arise from the various systems the PM is overseeing.

This is a funded position.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Providing technical expertise in creating, updating, maintaining, and visualizing software architecture to include data and services.
• Providing technical documentation to support the architecture of the portfolio of projects to include Concept of Operations (CONOPs).
• Serving as a technical liaison with regard to system architecture that focuses on performance, availability, redundancy, data protection, and information security.
• Collaborating with customers to evaluate mission drivers, identify challenges, define mitigation strategies, assess applications and services, develop transition plans, and develop business cases in support of Cloud and other initiatives.
• Collaboratively troubleshoot IT problems as they arise.
• Responding to user/customer requests.
• Driving adoption and use of best practices in software development, testing, and validation Providing technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environments, high-level systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, and providing implementation advice on exceptionally complex problems that need extensive knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation.
• Assisting the customer with technical oversight of the Service Provider(s) for the portfolio of projects.
• Providing technical leadership for the integration of IT requirements, design, and technology.
• Interacting with the Government regarding systems engineering IT technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Facilitate metrics across the IC community
  
  

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Poly is REQUIRED
• Bachelor's degree and fourteen (14) years or more of relevant experience; Master's degree and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience
• 3-5 years of experience working within an IC Agency
• 3 years of technical hands on experience with Cloud and Enterprise Architecture Experience building, operating, and maintaining IT Systems in a national security environment
• Experience managing IT vendors and software teams and holding them accountable for goals
• Software development background
• Experience with IT governance
• Broad experience and understanding to be able to provide sound technical advice to the Government PM on a range of topics
• Agile mindset with a bias towards action
• Ability to call balls and strikes in meetings with other technical personnel for the customer Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Please note: This is not a PM position. We are seeking someone with a technical background that can assist our customer with architecture platform transitions and recommendations.

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .