Senior Principal Systems Engineer

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Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2024-10-14

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

Would you like to work side-by-side with world class system engineers, acquisition professionals and domain experts in a government-contractor team delivering best of breed software applications that have direct impact on national security?

SAIC is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program, a large SETA contract supporting the customer's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). The job requires the ability to flexibly manage task execution, provide technical/professional expertise on a variety of Systems Engineering topics, and advise the government on program activities. The work will be located in Chantilly, VA. All candidates must have an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

A successful candidate in this position will bring a record of application of systems engineering and creative thought-leadership to mature and develop revolutionary multi-intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical leadership in planning capabilities needed to better support mission operations (e.g. automation, resiliency, situational awareness, etc.)
• Analyze user needs, develop concepts of operation, and high-level systems architectures, and define capability needs and system requirements.
• Work with government and contractor points of contact across multiple Agencies, Directorates and Offices to refine future ground system capabilities.
• Identify and communicate key architecture and system level trades, system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies.
• Support integration of architectures with other components of the technical baseline
• Collaborate with SETA team members, engineers from various contractor and government organizations, and mission users.
• Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences to convey information in crisp, articulate manner.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Proven experience in core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team player requiring collaboration and open communication.
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline
• Engineering, computer science, or information systems background
• Ability to build, integrate and analyze MBSE architectural representations.
• Domain and tool knowledge in Agile software development practices (e.g. Scrum, DevOps, JIRA, Kanban)
• Prior experience with data management services and cloud software architectures
• Prior US military and/or IC customer experience

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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