Lead Software Architect

SAIC is seeking a Software Architect to support a newly awarded contract with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Support team. 

Work will be performed on-site in North Charleston, SC.

This program's support to NIWC LANT will include: Research and Development, Test and Evaluation, Prototype Fielding Kit Development, Engineering Documentation Development, Software Engineering and Integration, Training and Sustainment of the following systems Communication Emitter Sensing and Attacking System (CESAS), Tactical SIGINT Collection System (TSCS), and Marine Air Ground Task Force Electronic Warfare Ground Family of Systems (MEGFoS). 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Specifying, building, maintaining, and supporting the various baselines within specified Programs of Record.
• Integrating software baselines for current systems and future state.
• Technical oversight of the design, development, testing and deployment of the software demonstration.
• Support systems engineering technical reviews. Collaborate with software, hardware and  test teams,  and information technology infrastructure teams to ensure the availability of requisite power, compute, physical security, safety mechanisms, and environmental conditioning.
• Collaborate with software and hardware teams to understand expected unit level and system level behavior to define use cases and define & develop test capabilities that exercise and stress respective software and hardware capabilities.
• Establish partnerships with program supporting industry partners
• Establish Software Architecture supporting the program  
• Understanding the latest software and hardware engineering principles and practices, such as methods and challenges of integration.
• Integrating computer programs.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree and fourteen (14) years of experience; four (4) years of additional experience may be considered in lieu of Degree. 

Required Clearance:

• Must have a Secret Security Clearance to begin employment; must be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearance to maintain employment.

Required Skills:

• Five (5) years of experience in C4ISR related programs to include: Systems Analysis, Software Development and Integration, Systems Architecture, Systems/Equipment Support, Test and Evaluation, and Logistics support of C4ISR requirements.
• Ten (10) years of technical experience in network, system architecture, and the interoperability of USMC intelligence system collection and analysis platform, development, testing, and implementation of requirements, specific product and systems. Experience may be achieved simultaneously.
• Experience with integration and configuration of applications in a Linux, CentOS, RHEL environment.
• Ability to load Operating Systems.
• Experience in creating and deploying applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other containerization background.
• Common Firmware Environment (CFE) experience.
• Matlab and RaptorX experience.
• Python, Java, and Golang experience.

Desired Skills: 

• Systems and/or Software Engineering experience on a government software development contract.
• Experience with software development, installation, and integration activities.
• Experience in requirements management.
• Experience in CONOPS / OPSCON development.
• Experience in integration, and/or verification and validation.
• Experience in technical risk management.
• Experience in SE process development and deployment.
• Experience in MBSE practices and simulations.