Mid-Level Systems Engineer

GEOINT Systems Engineer Mid

Location: Chantilly, VA or Springfield, VA

Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI

Overall Assignment Description:  

We are seeking a Mid-Level Systems Engineer with hands-on experience across the Systems Engineering & Integration Lifecycle (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, CONOPS, Integration, Test, Transition) and an understanding of IT and cloud-based technologies to support a variety of enterprise transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems and projects. The ideal candidate has familiarity with the GEOINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) Architecture and will bring a critical-thinking mindset to strategic enterprise architecture and technical planning, engineering analyses, and cross-organization coordination and integration activities to modernize the GEOINT architecture and advance GEOINT mission capabilities.

As a member of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division’s Lead Integrator Team, you will work alongside Expert and Senior System Engineer and Integrator teammates to conduct a wide variety of analyses (e.g., Architecture Gap Analysis, Enterprise Requirements Analysis, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (COAs), and Trade Studies), developing recommendations that will inform investment decisions (e.g., system divestitures and consolidation).  You will apply your Systems Engineering and Integration knowledge to support a variety of integration activities across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs), ensuring synchronization of activities and documentation of the Enterprise baseline (e.g., architecture, requirements, interfaces).  Working within NGA’s Digital Engineering Environment, you will help to facilitate the development of integrated project plans, requirements, epics, target state architectures, CONOPS, and roadmaps. You will participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams focused on Analytic, Collection Management, Data Services, Foundation GEOINT, and Information Technology modernization, ensuring integrated solutions and capability deliveries.     

You also will have the opportunity to leverage and expand your technical knowledge related to IT / Cloud technologies and services, working with Expert IT/Cloud Architects to drive NGA IT modernization.  For example, you will help to define enterprise requirements and mature NGA’s IT Architecture Layer and Multiple Cloud Architecture Patterns.   

Duties include (but are not limited to): In partnership with Expert and Senior Systems Engineers, Integrators, and Architects,

·       Perform architecture gap analysis and develop the Future State Enterprise Architecture.

·       Conduct engineering analyses to inform GEOINT Mission and IT capability investment decisions in alignment with the Enterprise Architecture baseline.

·       Conduct baseline analysis, driving allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs and end-to-end traceability of requirements, architecture, etc.

·       Help advance NGA’s multiple cloud acquisition, through enterprise architecture and requirements activities.  Identifies and documents associated Risks, Issues, and Opportunities. 

·       Capture and translate mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

·       Perform systems integration activities across organizations; participate in integrated project teams, driving the development of project plans, architecture and engineering artifacts (e.g., CONOPS), roadmaps / schedules, Risks, etc.

·       Participate in Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

·       Participate in NGA Governance, Configuration Management, and Risk Management processes.

·       Help define modernized system integration processes, driving enhanced adoption of agile practices and digital engineering, efficiencies, and increased partnerships across a large number of organizations.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

·       Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Cloud Architect.

·       Understanding and demonstrated Mid-level working experience with systems engineering processes (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, Integration, Test, and/or Transition).

·       Mid-level working experience in cloud-based systems architecting.

Desired:

·       Experience / working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED Architecture (Data Providers, Systems / Services, Interfaces, Data Flows)

·       Experience with agile project management tools, such as Jira and Confluence

·       Cloud Certification(s)

·       Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification(s)

·       Familiarity with multiple cloud concepts

·       Experience / working knowledge of Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS)

·       Experience / working knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices