Product Quality Systems Engineer

FTS International, LLC (FTS) is committed to providing the Federal Government with quality consultants and support. To ensure mission success we focus on putting our customers first while minimizing corporate bureaucracy on our staff. We provide Subject Matter Experts (SME) free of Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) focused on independent analysis and mission support services within the disciplines of Engineering, Counter Terrorism Operations, Management, Information Technology, Signals Analysis, Administration, Cyber Security and Linguistics.

FTS has an opportunity for a Product Quality Systems Engineer in Springfield, VA.

The Product Quality Systems Engineer provides Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on Mission Processing, Product Quality, and Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support product quality evaluation and product delivery on multiple technical programs
• Provide technical leadership by evaluating and recommending courses of action on activities impacting mission data processing and dissemination, infrastructure systems engineering, full mission systems lifecycle (from concept development, enterprise requirements definition, integration and test, operations and maintenance, and decommissioning)
• Enable successful testing by implementing test plans, supporting test status meetings, facilitating test readiness and/or checkpoint reviews, assess and provide comments on system discrepancy as part of operational transition activities
• Identify risk/issues and process improvements to enable product quality improvements that enhance efficiencies, accuracy, and usability of GEOINT products for the user community
• Evaluate mission architectures, propose changes to technology insertions that improve utility of multi-intelligence data across multiple missions
• Assess software and hardware delivery schedules for the government customer, including coordinating schedule updates across contractor support staff
• Identify architecture capability gaps and customer needs to support ICD level strategic planning
• Conduct trade studies, produce technical documents, reports and presentations for customers

Required Skills/Qualifications

• TS/SCI with polygraph
• BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
• 9+ years' relevant experience
• Experience with GEOINT product cycle, products, and libraries
• Familiar with mission systems and systems engineering processes
• Experience with project management supporting the delivery, integration, and transition of mission systems and/or mission applications
• Ability to work independently to support multiple government customers and large, complex projects to address organization's needs
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements without supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal), impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment; comfortable briefing or communicating with senior government managers
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
• Experience with Jira, Confluence

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
• Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies

FTS International, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer - vets/disabled.