Senior Engineer - Lifecycle Manager
 Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. | |
 United States, Virginia, Norfolk | |
 Sep 12, 2025 | |
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Overview
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues. SPAs NATO Allied Command Transformation Group within JOID provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage. SPA has an immediate need for a Senior Engineer - Lifecycle Manager to provide contracting services to NATO onsite in Norfolk, VA. Responsibilities The Bi-Strategic Commands (Bi-SC) SATCOM Program Management Office (PMO) provides Program Management Capability (PMC) for the Strategic Commands at NATO ACT (Norfolk, VA) and SHAPE (Mons, Belgium).
The candidate will be part of an international team supporting requirements management and execution and performing a variety of tasks under the direction of the Program Manager.
The candidate will s
upport the technical aspects of the SATCOM project and its coherence with business change models; s
upport project management and execution, performing a variety of governance tasks under the direction of the PMO Head, including financial analysis, budget management, performance evaluation, project scheduling and planning, requirements definition, scope management, cost control, and risk analysis; and e
nsure the Project costs are clear, accurate, fully reported, and transparent. Will b
uild upon existing Business Change Management structures for the program to efficiently deal with issues/changes that arise by having processes, capabilities, and responsibilities in place to respond.
Accurately and comprehensively capture, assess, and provide situational awareness over any changes to the program and its projects.
Translate all changes in actions and recommendations including acceptance/rejection of change and advise to the Bi-SCs.
Establish, document, and maintain issue management processes within the Bi-SCs. The process shall be based on the PRINCE2 definition of an issue. The change management processes shall include the mechanism to develop an integrated assessment of a change among the relevant SMEs within the Bi-SC and C3 CG substructure authorities. The change management process shall serve as the filter to the change control process.
Capture and log all program issues affecting SATCOM in a project Issue Log.
Coordinate staffing relevant to Subject Matter Experts and prepare an integrated assessment for the Change Management Board identifying the likely impacts on other program activities and projects.
Conduct user and stakeholder analyses and manage and provide oversight to a program or project.
Collect, interpret, and analyze results of integrated cost and schedule and risk models, and prepare reports and briefings on analyzed results. C
ollect inputs from a variety of sources and prepare and coordinate deliverables; c
onduct analysis and communicate findings to project team and decision makers; i
nterface with the client or internal program management; w
ork within a multi-stakeholder, technical, and matrixed organizational environment; e
stablish, document, and maintain the following program elements, which are common interest within the AIS program and C3 portfolio, and/or interdependent programs include p
rogram planning, t
echnical and operational architecture management, r
isk management, and s
chedule management. D
evelop and sustain a consistent means to track project expenditure against its approved investment costs and r
econcile relevant reporting databases to ensure project expenditure is being accurately represented to the stakeholder group.
Qualifications Required:
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