Description
Join a winning team! Be part of a dynamic team that delivers excellence and quality for the NRO's Systems Engineering Directorate (SED). SAIC is seeking to fill an opening for a Space Enterprise Architect to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the enterprise architecting, analysis, and systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems. Make a difference in securing our nation's security through quality engineering and innovation.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Work across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs
Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and external stakeholders
Identify and defining future space capability needs
Identify key architecture and system level trades
Develop strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architectures
Assess the performance of current and future architecture concepts
Provide technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process
Develop architecture models to capture the holistic view of the enterprise
Prepare briefings for senior decision makers
Facilitate multi-stakeholder summits, workshops, and technical exchanges between senior government leadership, management teams, and technical teams for national space programs to achieve alignment in program strategic vision and direction, capability management, mission organization design, and solution architecture concept development
Develop and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate program and mission strategic concepts to influence solution conceptual designs for cost, schedule, performance, risk, and resilience to disruptive events or threats
Advise on enterprise architecture landscape, including technology, information, data, security, and integration
Develop technology strategy and planning deliverables to address risks and technology gaps
Formulate enterprise architecture solution strategies and roadmaps
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 15 years of relevant experience with 10 being at the Chantilly IC Customer
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Solid understanding of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
Proven experience with technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing
Proficiency with architecture tools and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, UAF)
Proven experience with the use of architecting across the IC
Architecture domain understanding from a holistic enterprise perspective
Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs, impacts, and advancement
Proven experience in development and use of descriptive modeling for architecture solutions (e.g., building models and diagrams)
Experience with lifecycle readiness from enterprise solution architecture concept development through system decommissioning
Ability to develop project plans, identify high-impact deliverables, and manage schedule commitments
Experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews
Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums
Proven experience using and developing solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive solutions
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment
Strong oral and written communication skills
Desired Qualifications
Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline
Expert-level understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes
Expert-level proficiency with use of architecting to support senior level enterprise decision making
Expert in enterprise architecture, strategy development and enterprise solutions
Experience with IC customer's Request for Change (RFC) process and the Engineering Review Board process
Experience in SysML applications
Experience integrating enterprise architecting tools with MODSIM analysis
Substantive experience in the space, intelligence, and/or defense domains
Experience, education, training and/or certification in strategic foresighting practices
Experience working closely with key customer agencies in the defense and intelligence community, including strong knowledge of their domain and strong professional networks
Demonstrated knowledge of implementing an Enterprise Architecture framework in a federal Agency/Department
Prior US military and/or IC customer experience
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2408149
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