Agile Systems Engineer II

About the role

Noblis ESI is seeking an Agile Systems Engineer II with a national space enterprise and ground systems engineering background to work with our clients in supporting the future ground architecture. The selected candidate will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to support our client on-site in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will serve as program support to the government Program Manager (PM) with responsibility for technical knowledge of the assigned teams and programs/projects. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing technical guidance and recommendations related to the integration of National Systems-based capabilities
• Engaging with the national and tactical communities to collaboratively design, document, validate, and deliver architectures, systems and innovative ground capabilities in support of the national space architecture
• Researching, gathering and writing formal requirements, translating those requirements into user stories and statements of work
• Providing schedule, requirements, configuration, and risk management support; and validation, verification, and test support
• Supporting Agile-based program management and implementation of a model-Base Systems Engineering approach
• Leading IPT meetings and review process boards to include but not limited to ERBs, CCBs, SRRs, CDRs, PDRs, and PMRs
• Supporting the PM in multiple areas which include systems and mission engineering; system integration; program management; acquisition support; analytic support; technical analysis; user requirement management/development; architecture; and customer outreach and support
• Serving as technical expert in their assigned area
• Providing administrative and technical support to the Government leadership team, internal cross coordination, external mission partners and other DoD/IC customers

Requirements

The selected candidate must have:

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph
• US Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree and 3 years OR Master's degree and 1 year OR Associate and 3 years OR High School/GED Diploma and 6 years
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
• Strong systems engineering discipline with experience in traditional functions such as risk management, requirements management, configuration management, schedule management, or testing
• Experience working space and ground programs from architecture-definition documentation (ADD/CONOPS) through requirements derivation and allocation, performance metric generation and assessment, test case development, and requirement closure tracing
• Ability to facilitate commonality within the enterprise by defining, architecting, and integrating a multi-INT, multi-sensor, and multi-nodal processing capability
• Ability to problem solve in a rapidly changing environment and interface with the customer daily
• Background/knowledge of national space and ground systems

Desired Qualifications

Desired qualifications include:

• Master’s degree in a BSTEM field
• Familiarity with the IC and NRO enterprise architecture, DOD's space architecture, and translation of Statement of Capabilities and Enterprise Capability Document line items to CONOPs and architectures
• Experience developing, editing, and updating system architecture and CONOPs documentation as the system mission model matures
• Knowledge of Electro-optical, RADAR, SIGINT, Communications, Mission Management, and Mission processing systems supporting a space and ground architecture
• Experience generating and codifying inter-segment and inter-system interface requirements for major space mission ground systems
• Working knowledge of SAFe Agile or similar agile processes and JIRA and Confluence tools
• Certified in one or more of the following: INCOSE (or DAWIA equivalent), OMG Systems Modeler, Agile, Project Management, MBSE
• Experience with RDNG/DOORs requirements database management/repository, Rhapsody, SysML applications, Confluence, Jira, or JSMART
• Understanding of how system requirements, design, analysis, verification and validation activities are enabled by MBSE across the digital thread (the engineering lifecycle)
• Ability to travel

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $90,700.00 - $141,775.00 per year, based on full-time status.