Description
Description
DESCRIPTION:
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services in a dynamic, multi-organizational environment in Colorado Springs, CO. Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. Target compensation is $ 140,000.00 to $145,000.00. The successful candidate will:
· Understand and perform general program management functions on a daily basis, 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
Required:
· US Citizenship
· Active TS/SCI clearance with adjudicated polygraph
· Contract requirement: Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) 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
· Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence
· OPIR experience a plus
Travel: Yes, 15% of the time
Potential for remote work: No
Target salary range: $135,001 - $145,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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