Senior Systems Engineer

Overview

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high‑impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With more than 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the U.S. 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 strives to be a value‑added, objective, responsive, and trusted partner and premier provider.

The Space and Intelligence (S&I) Division provides engineering services and analytic support to the Air Force, Space Force, Combatant Commands, the Intelligence Community, and NASA. Our work includes systems engineering and integration, test planning and execution, cost estimating and analysis, developing approaches and concepts to meet emerging, high priority National Defense needs, and assessing and developing cutting‑edge computer‑based solutions, advanced technologies and progressive capabilities to meet those needs.

The S&I Division comprises the Intelligence Programs Group (IPG), the Space Systems Group (SSG), and the Strategic Technology Analysis Group (STAG), which collectively provide outstanding support to help their customers achieve our nation’s most critical objectives and goals designed to protect the safety and livelihoods of all U.S. Citizens and military forces at home and abroad.

SPA has an immediate need for a number of highly qualified Systems Engineers at multiple levels of seniority to support our new U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command Hemisphere contract in the Colorado Springs, CO and El Segundo, CA areas and selected other workplaces in the continental United States.

Travel is not anticipated but would occur less than five percent of the time on an occasional and irregular basis and be limited to domestic locations only.

Systems Engineers assist in leading 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. They work with technical experts to design systems and advanced system capabilities. The systems engineers that we are seeking for this important opportunity will help enable advanced capabilities and proactive protective understanding of how our family of space‑based assets and programs operate, interact, and serve our highest priority national defense.

Objectives include:

• Configuration Managers that are:
  • Knowledgeable in U.S. Air Force records management
  • Able to process, receive, track, coordinate, and store large volumes of program critical information
  • Able to coordinate and organize multiple geographically‑separated team members
  • Able to manage taskers
  • Highly knowledgeable of USSF/SSC and HHQ staffing process
  • Skilled in Platform 1, Jira, Confluence
  • Able to compile inputs for Configuration Control Boards (CCBs)
• Data Engineers that are:
  • Able to analyze data, develop or improve algorithms and use data visualization tools
  • Knowledgeable in Design of Experiments to develop performance characterizations
  • Experienced in developing test and characterization plans for suites of instrumentation
• Digital Environment Managers that are:
  • Experienced in analyzing and evaluating current events and providing recommendations on Dev Sec Ops  and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
  • Able to manage Digital Engineering Ecosystems on a SAP/SAR level
  • Knowledgeable in DoD and IC security processes and procedures
  • Experts in classified systems data handling and operational level support
  • Certified PMPs
  • Preferred to have Dev Sec Ops  and Cloud Architecture advanced training or relevant certifications
• Knowledge Managers that are:
  • Experienced with MS SharePoint site creation and management of data storage
  • Competent at the SCRUM Master level using Jira and Confluence
  • Experienced managing Atlassian Jir User Groups and project roles
  • Experienced building and configuring Jira workflows and dashboards
• Lifecycle Planners that are:
  • Experie…