Systems Engineer - Expert

James Scott LLC is seeking an Expert Systems Engineer to support one of its Tier-one high priority clients within the Springfield, VA area.

The selected candidate duties shall include.

• Aid the customer in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, and services development, scheduling, integration, testing, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and miscellaneous Agencies.
• Assist in the planning and trace of user requirements, architectures trace, procedures, and potential problems to improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflows, and scheduling limitations.
• Brief and advise the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and both legacy and new technology.
• Assists in the capture of mission and customer requirements and needs into systems and capability requirements and solutions.
• Provide support to the customer in performing systems integration activities.
• Lead Analysis and Course of Actions, Trade Studies, and Engineering evaluations.
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Provides SME advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
• Oversees the work of Senior, Mid, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific discipline such as Engineering, Physics or Mathematics, CompSci, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• TS/SCI
• Expert-level experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired, Not Required:
• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific field such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Software Development Framework certification.
• INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
• Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations such as ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, USGIF.
• Robust experience in the field of GEOINT.
• Engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
• Engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
• Engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
• Knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO and misc enterprises in agencies.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC and/or DoD program/project work experience.