Senior Systems Engineer

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Markon is seeking a senior-level Systems Engineer to support the HD Directorate for the NGA in Springfield, VA.

The Human Development Directorate (HD) recruits, hires, develops, recognizes, and retains a professional, highly skilled, and diverse workforce to support current and future mission needs. HD is committed to quality customer service, offering benefits, nurturing leaders, and providing academic programs to GEOINT professionals within the National System for Geospatial Intelligence.

Guide 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.
• Guide Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing 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.
• Guide 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.
• Guide Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Assist the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Support the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
• Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Operate at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.

Required:

• Active TS/SCI with a CI Poly is required.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems 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 Senior Level work experience as a Systems Engineer.
• Senior-level experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
• 12+ years of experience with the systems engineering lifecycle with the NGA or Geospatial industry.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Systems 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.
• Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Demonstrated experience with Software Development Frameworks.
• Possesses INCOSE Certified System Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
• Demonstrated experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Possesses a Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Possesses Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
  • ACSM
  • ASCE
  • ASPRS
  • OGC
  • SAREM
  • USGIF
• Demonstrated experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience with the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.