Description

DESCRIPTION: SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineering and Analysis Lead to guide and perform systems engineering and technical advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead and oversee technical efforts of eight systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services ranging from tactical support (e.g. configuration management, board facilitation, action tracking, etc.) to strategic services (e.g. technical planning, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, etc.)
• Continually assess team's tasks; realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate; drive projects, customer requirements to closure
• Work with Contract Element Lead and Government managers, 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 or resource effectiveness or efficiency
• Provide technical support to government points of contacts; Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
• Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government - across the MOD enterprise
• Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and twelve (12) years or more experience ; PhD or JD in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and nine (9) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated leadership success on variety of complex systems engineering projects impacting mission operations
• In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria

• Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and/or mission processing functions
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
• Experience in mission operations environment - ops tempo, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations
• Experience with digital engineering/model based systems engineering; systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.); cloud technologies

• 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)
• Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly

Desired Qualifications:

• SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications

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.