Senior Principal Systems Engineer (Active Clearance)

About the role

The Secure Subsystems Department is responsible for the design, test, and certification of cross-domain technologies and cryptographic products that equip our warfighters to thrive in today’s multi-domain battlespace. Our department collaborates with portfolio teams across the organization to help capture new business and create security-hardened solutions that address our customers’ demanding needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a Systems Engineering Scrum Team through Design and Development efforts
• Communicate with multiple levels of management, team members, and customers
• Interface with multiple Hardware and Software Scrum Teams to work through dependencies and technical challenges
• Prepare and maintain project plans, budgets, and staffing requirements to ensure that all action item lists are completed, and project quality expectations are met
• Estimate costs, resources, and time required to complete projects to ensure business targets are met
• Maintain and provide analysis of trends, performance, resource cost and forecasting reports
• Gather and analyze data to monitor projects' progress in terms of cost, schedule, and technical specifications to facilitate operations and ensure that established objectives and budgets are achieved
• Meet with the project team regularly to manage project performance, status, open issues, and tasks
• Conduct critical path analysis and works closely with the program leadership to manage tasks and workflow
• Monitor and assess project issues, escalates when necessary, and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Provide support for proposal and bids, and using estimation tools

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Active and existing Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Experience as a Control Account Manager (CAM) focusing on Earned Value (EV)

Skills

• Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting technical data to program management
• Experience operating as a Product Owner in an Agile Environment
• Experience with Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools
• Experience capturing customer requirements, design concept development, and deriving and tracing system and sub-system level requirements
• Experience with peer review processes, configuration and change management
• Familiarity with bidding and project/task estimation tools

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• A generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy (pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection)
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

Pay

$145,600 - $276,800 USD

Schedule

Onsite