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Company: SAIC
Location: Chantilly, VA
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

Description

Description: SAIC has an opportunity for a Transition Engineer to guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will:

  • Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services.
  • Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.
  • Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts.
  • Maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency.
  • Provide technical support to government contacts.
  • Identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities.
  • Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities.
  • Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

  • Must be US Citizen.
  • Possess Active TS/SCI with current polygraph.
  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
  • Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities.
  • Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions.
  • Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission and be familiar with related control gates and associated documentation.
  • Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification.
  • Self-starter, able to proactively address customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.
  • Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal).
  • Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
  • Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project.

Desired Qualifications: 

  • Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics.
  • Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process.
  • Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies.


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