Agile Systems Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking a Agile Systems Engineer to join the Landmark AOS program, SAIC's Prime SETA program supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). GED leads the acquisition, integration, and modernization of mission-critical ground systems across the full system lifecycle.

In this role, you will provide enterprise-level systems engineering expertise across cloud-based software development activities, ensuring architectures, requirements, schedules, and technical decisions align with mission needs. You will help shape system capabilities, identify risks and opportunities, and guide engineering rigor across a diverse portfolio of Significant Ground Capabilities (SGCs).

Key Responsibilities to include:

• Develop and deliver authoritative systems engineering products, including integration plans, verification and validation approaches, test processes, requirements traceability, and enterprise schedules/roadmaps.

• Execute enterprise-level systems engineering activities, supporting readiness events, stakeholder coordination, and senior-leadership decision forums.

• Translate stakeholder needs into actionable technical and operational requirements, and coordinate requirements management activities with acquisition offices.

• Analyze system and functional requirements, decompose documentation, and maintain system architectures that accurately capture mission needs and identify risks.

• Guide risk, issue, and opportunity management, ensuring impacts to enterprise-level decisions are clearly communicated and understood.

• Support development of cross-program systems engineering standards within the Enterprise Management Framework.

• Integrate across mission teams, providing systems engineering insight to mission integrators, capability managers, and cross-functional partners.

• Review and evaluate key systems engineering artifacts, offering objective technical assessments and recommendations.

• Prepare and deliver technical assessments, briefings, and documentation for senior leadership and major enterprise reviews.

• Coordinate and support execution of major systems engineering reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise processes and mission priorities.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.

• Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.

• Experience supporting a Systems Engineering organization, with strong understanding of SE and acquisition processes.

• Demonstrated expertise in risk and opportunity management, requirements management, configuration management, and cross-program integration.

• Experience supporting Agile software development (Scrum, SAFe).

• Strong background in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V).

• Working knowledge of SE documentation, including CONOPS, SRDs, ICDs, and verification/test artifacts.

• Experience with process improvement and metrics development.

• Prior support to the Intelligence Community or DoD.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across government, SETA, FFRDC, and contractor teams in a high-tempo environment.

REQNUMBER: 2612591

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