SYSTEMS ENGINEER Job Listing at SAIC in Colorado Springs, CO (Job ID 2506928)

Description

Description

DESCRIPTION:  SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services in a dynamic, multi-organizational environment in Colorado Springs, CO. Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with current polygraph is required to start and must be maintained. Target compensation is $145,000.00 to $150,000.00.   

The successful candidate will:

·      Understand and perform general program management functions, to include milestone/status tracking, inter-organizational coordination and liaison, prepare and provide briefings/presentations, and review/edit/update classified documentation

·      Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technologies to deliver mission capabilities

·      Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements

·      Conduct technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities; coordinate recommendations with government stakeholders and supports program status reviews

·      Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies

·      Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums

·      Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations

·      Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

 

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

·      US Citizenship

·      Active TS/SCI clearance with current adjudicated polygraph

·      Contract requirement:  Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience

·      Knowledge of overall space and ground architecture including ground terminal equipment (satellite antennas), telemetry/tracking/control, and/or mission processing functions

·      Program lifecycle experience from concept development through decommission

·      Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development

·      Experience with mission readiness process, familiar with control gates and associated documentation, entry/exit criteria

·      Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems development; validation and verification

·      Experience developing and providing oversight of Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) and detailed program schedules

·      Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics

·      Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment

·      Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder

·      Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

 

Desired:

·         Familiar with mission operations environment – ops tempo, launch and initialization, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations 

·         Familiar with satellite system sustainment

·         Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence

·         Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) experience a plus

 

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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