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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - Software
Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)
Overview
VTG is seeking a Senior Ground Systems Engineer to lead, guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA.
What will you do?
The successful candidate will:
Do you have what it takes?
Required:
Desired:
VTG is seeking a Senior Ground Systems Engineer to lead, guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA.
What will you do?
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and oversee technical efforts of six systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems.
- Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team's tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.
- Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency.
- Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities.
- Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government - across the enterprise.
- Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.
Do you have what it takes?
Required:
- US Citizenship
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and 14 years or more experience; Master's in STEM field and 12 years or more experience; PhD or JD in STEM and nine (9) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement
- Demonstrated leadership success on variety of complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations.
- In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance.
- Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions.
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
- CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
- Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies.
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics-drives tasks to closure.
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project).
Desired:
- Experience with Digital Engineering (DE)/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools.
- Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator
- SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications
group id: RTL806649
