FAA ARD Senior Systems Engineer

A3 Technology, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) team. The position will provide engineering and technical expertise in support of the development and evolution of enterprise-level strategies for the National Airspace System (NAS).

The successful candidate will support FAA engineering organizations responsible for defining future NAS capabilities across multiple operational and technical domains, including communications and infrastructure, navigation, surveillance, weather and aeronautical information, flight processing and traffic flow, new entrants, and flight deck systems.

This position requires broad knowledge of the existing NAS, its operational and technical architecture, and the relationships among major NAS systems and services. The engineer will apply systems and enterprise engineering principles to assess current capabilities, develop baseline and future-state engineering artifacts, identify dependencies and gaps, and support development of strategies, roadmaps, requirements, models, and investment priorities that guide the evolution of the NAS.

The specific organizational assignment may evolve based on FAA priorities. The engineer may provide support at the division level, to individual engineering domains, or across multiple branches and technical areas.

• Provide senior systems engineering and subject matter expertise supporting the development of future engineering strategies for NAS operational and technical domains.
• Assess existing NAS systems, services, capabilities, interfaces, and infrastructure to establish and maintain accurate baseline engineering representations of the current environment.
• Apply knowledge of NAS enterprise architecture, including the FAA's current enterprise architecture framework and associated models, to evaluate the relationship between current-state capabilities and planned future-state concepts.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts supporting current-state and future-state architectures, operational concepts, system relationships, interfaces, dependencies, and capability evolution.
• Support development and refinement of enterprise roadmaps, engineering requirements, architecture models, and transition strategies based on approved engineering objectives.
• Analyze proposed changes to NAS systems and services to identify technical dependencies, integration challenges, capability gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Evaluate the implications of emerging technologies, new operational concepts, and modernization initiatives across multiple NAS domains.
• Support engineering assessments of alternatives and provide technically supported recommendations to FAA leadership regarding future NAS capabilities and modernization approaches.
• Collaborate with FAA organizations and Lines of Business, including acquisition, operational, safety, research, and engineering organizations, to promote consistency among enterprise engineering strategies and implementation activities.
• Coordinate with industry stakeholders to understand emerging aviation technologies, standards, architectures, and engineering approaches that may affect future NAS evolution.
• Support FAA participation in industry, standards-development, and international technical forums, which may include organizations such as RTCA, ICAO, and AEEC.
• Provide engineering input to development of enterprise roadmaps, requirements, architecture models, investment and funding priorities, and research or prototype activities.
• Evaluate operational and technical performance information from implemented NAS capabilities to identify lessons learned and inform future engineering strategies.
• Prepare technical analyses, briefings, white…