Senior Project/Systems Engineer

Assured Consulting Solutions Senior Project/Systems Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA (or St. Louis, MO)

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Background:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

Senior Project Engineers execute engineering tasks, taking a multi-discipline approach to full lifecycle engineering including but not limited to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. They provide a substantial portion, if not all of, the engineering support to the teams to which they are assigned.

Responsibilities:

1. Perform the full lifecycle of engineering support including but not limited to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability analysis, resiliency analysis, development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability analysis, and decommissioning.
2. Lead the planning, documenting, analysis, and traceability of user requirements and architectures.
3. Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
4. Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
5. Support RFP development and generate engineering documentation for RFPs.
6. Identify industry and NGA standards and create IPF unique standards for open architecture, service centric architecture, service oriented architecture, and cloud architecture for inclusion in IPF RFPs, existing contracts, and government development efforts.
7. Work cross project with other IPF projects to facilitate transition from concept to development to sustainment to decommissioning.
8. Work across NGA, NSG, and ASG partners to provide engineering support to advance the Foundation GEOINT mission.
9. Evaluate and provide recommendations on how to automate or improve existing systems and workflows.
10. Evaluate cloud environments for efficiency, redundancy, and utilization improvements and provide recommendations.
11. Develop solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
12. Support the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
13. Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
14. Drive inefficiencies out of IPFs processes.
15. Assist the Government integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions (MSA) across organizational and agency boundaries.
16. Assist the Government in developing and maintaining MSA documentation.
17. Guide Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers.

Required Qualifications:

1. Senior-level (12 years) demonstrated experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
2. Senior-level (12 years) demonstrated experience with systems engineering lifecycle.
3. Certified as an INCOSE System Engineering Professional (CSEP), DAWIA (level III) in IT, SPRDE, certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA), or in another Software Development Framework.

Desired Qualifications:

1. Master's degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences or in project management or engineering management.
2. Senior-level (12 years) demonstrated experience in geographic information systems, geodetic sciences, or related fields.
3. Senior-level (12 years) demonstrated experience with Foundation GEOINT data domains and mission areas.
4. Senior-level (12 years) demonstrated experience with NGA Process and tools, to include System Engineering, Acquisition, Configuration Management, Readiness and Security.

Essential Job Functions:

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Physical Requirements:

1. Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing/walking/talking. Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
2. Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one work site to another.
3. Must be able to lift and move hardware weighing up to 50 pounds.

Education Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences. A degree in Systems Engineering, Project Management, or similar non-technical field does not satisfy this requirement.

Years of Experience:

1. 12+ years w/ Bachelor's Degree

Position Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Export Control: Employment with the company is contingent on verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license.

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.