Systems Engineer Architect

Company: SAIC
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

Description

This position will support an OPIR Joint customer Program

Office responsible for acquiring the Overhead Persistence GEOINT Architecture

(OPGA) that will provide the user community with OPIR capabilities in a

modular, open architecture that provides global, persistent, real-time

surveillance and activity based intelligence information. This position

supports a hybrid Agile process with the Government as the overall integrator

in a Cloud Environment. The successful

applicant will provide SETA support as an Architecture Integration Engineer for

a range of system engineering efforts and technical expertise, continuity of

effort and value-added judgment to advise and assist the customer's leadership

and contract teams.

SPECIFIC TASKING/PROJECT SUPPORT:

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• Provide design guidance across a range of system
  
  and application technologies, ensuring solutions are aligned with the
  
  enterprise architecture vision and met with technical standards
  
  
  --- Synchronizing and
  
  de-conflict inter-service/agency architectures
  
  • 
    
    
  • Develop expert knowledge of existing systems and
    
    facilitate creation of mechanisms to track current and future state
    
    architectures
    
    
    
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    • Collaborate with operational / technical SMEs
      
      and Standards personnel to identify architecture gaps, overlaps and
      
      inefficiencies, and develop recommendations for changes to improve enterprise
      
      architecture.
      
    • Contribute to the definition of technology
      
      direction, standards and roadmaps across one or more technical domain.
      
    • Support customer's transformation efforts to
      
      move information technology systems from traditional server based architecture
      
      to a cloud-based architecture though the development of Model Based Systems
      
      Engineer (MBSE) tools and practices.
      
    • Develop and maintain Enterprise Architecture
      
      artifacts across entire system utilizing architecture modeling tools.
      
      
      
      • 
        
        
      • Perform requirements traceability and coordinate
        
        requirement priorities to assist informed management decisions (budget,
        
        technical, and schedule)
        
      • Conduct analysis and evaluations- making
        
        recommendations and providing advice and assistance to include preparing
        
        criteria and analytical aids, briefings, reports and presentations
        
      • Attend design reviews and review requirements
        
        documentation for solution integration
        
      • Provide support to Program Managers from
        
        external agencies to ensure delivery of Program Office projects to stakeholders.
        
        
        Qualifications
        
        TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience
        
        REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
        • 
          
        • Must be a US Citizen with active TS/SCI security
          
          clearance with polygraph
          
        • Broad understanding of space and/or ground
          
          systems, hardware, software, operations, and their interdependence
          
        • Working knowledge of CAMEO
          
        • Working knowledge of AGILE Scrum and SAFe
          
          software development methods
          
        • Working knowledge of IC principles, procedures
          
        • The ability to work proactively, independently,
          
          and/or as a member of a highly effective technical team while developing
          
          approaches
          
        • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain
          
          effective working relationships with customers
          
        • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and
          
          various SE, PM tools
          
          
          
          
        • *Requires overnight travel up to 10 percent of the work year
          
          DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
          • SAFe Agilist certification
            

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