Senior Systems Engineer

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Location:

Chantilly, Virginia |

Clearance Required:

Active Top Secret/SCI

The Senior Systems Engineer will support the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED) approach to Systems Engineering (SE) and SE Management and abide by and support GED’s Test and Evaluation Management Plan (TEMP) and Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) and recommend improvements. The Senior Systems Engineer will provide ground mission expertise to support system engineering of ground capabilities.

• Architecture
  • Support the development, maintenance, management, and implementation of GED architectures.
  • Support architectural endeavors aligning with GED’s Ground Vision.
  • Provide recommendations/technical expertise for cloud architecture evolution and end-to-end integration of data‑centric applications and distributed networks, enabling information sharing, efficiencies, and interoperability. This includes:
    • Operating in a hybrid cloud (on‑prem hardware with cloud)
    • Multiple cloud architecture supporting 2 or more different cloud service providers
    • Architecture resiliency with or without cloud service accessibility
    • Managed services using any cloud provider
  • Ensure Special Program Office (SPO) infrastructure, frameworks, prototypes, and platforms (to include mission unique environments) align with GED’s Ground Vision and architectures.
  • Develop, document, maintain, and coordinate ground architectures, consistent with the following activities:
    • Identification and recommendation of architectural improvements/opportunities for both current and future ground architectures maximizing GED enterprise services and tools as legacy systems are modernized and support new mission requirements/architectures are proposed;
    • Enable automation, data centricity, application service‑centric concepts, hybrid/multi‑cloud environments, software frameworks, microservices, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines;
    • Evaluation of GED, NRO, and Intelligence Community (IC) architectures to identify opportunities to integrate/consolidate functions, capabilities, frameworks, platforms, and architectures;
    • Development and maintenance of hybrid multi‑cloud reference architectures and design patterns;
    • Integration of resilient and isolated architectures supporting mission scenarios;
    • Identification, assessment, and documentation of dependencies, discrepancies, and gaps in capabilities between current and planned future ground architectures;
    • Participation in and support of NRO/Systems Engineering Directorate’s (SED), NRO CIO/CISO, and other agencies’ architectural forums and development efforts, where applicable;
    • Supporting development and monitoring adherence to GED‑level and SPO‑level architectural standards that align with overarching Federal, IC, and DoD architectures; and
    • Creation and maintenance of architectural views, based on architectural frameworks as directed by the Government.
• Requirements Management
  • Requirements management activities will include management of traditionally developed System and Function Requirements, Interface Documents, Systems Design Specs, Agile requirements (Epics, Features, Stories) and other types of requirements, capability requests, and needs as provided by users and external sources.
  • Support the development, maintenance, and management of requirements for GED programs that could include programs that are managed via both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Develop and maintain GED requirements, traceability, and verification in Government approved tool(s), e.g., JIRA, Dynamic Object‑Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), Excel, and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools.
• Roadmap and Schedule Management
  • Support the development, evaluation, communication, and use of roadmaps and schedules.
  • Abide by and support the SPO and GED schedule management process.
• Readiness, Test, Verification and Validation
  • Prepare readiness artifacts in accordance with NRO Instruction (NI) 130‑1‑6 NRO Life Cycle Readiness and associated addendums and Agile…