Expert- Systems Engineer

Position Title:  Systems Engineer (Expert)
Position Type:  Full-time; Fully On-Site
Position Location:  Springfield, VA
Clearance Required:  TS/SCI
Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to
requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services
development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National
System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and
Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.
Responsibilities:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling,
  reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and
  analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of
  Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability,
  procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service
  capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of
  requirements and new technology.
• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer
  requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
  Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and
  executing programs.
• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
  Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and
  Engineering Assessments.
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance
  engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs,
  requirements, and process and capability developments.
• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational,
  agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems
  Engineers.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering,
  physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science,
  Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree
  program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.
• A minimum of 18 years’ experience working as an Engineer.
• Expert working experience within the NSG or ASG and major NSG programs/software
  applications (e.g., NCL, ArcGIS, RemoteView, GSP).
• Expert working experience with DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, or
  system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented
  Architecture/Cloud environments.
• Experience with and strong understanding of the Systems Engineering lifecycle as it relates to
  the NSG environment.

Desired:

• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Open Data Store (ODS) at NGA
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the NGA Consolidated Library (NCL) at NGA
• Knowledge of the NGA Data and Systems Enterprise level Architecture and Data Services
• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages
• Software Development Framework certification
• Licensure as a professional engineer
• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence
• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies
• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data
• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence
  technologies

Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information
sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields