Senior Systems Engineer System Definition

Overview

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities

Arcfield is growing and seeking a Systems Engineer Senior Technical Specialist to support System Definition for their customer's COMM Directorate. The ideal candidate for this position will be able to facilitate stakeholder requirements definition, architecture definition, requirements analysis and the decisions associated with these activities. (Please note, an offer for this position will be contingent on an awarded contract.)

Key Responsibilities Include:

Lead System Requirements Development

• Facilitate new requirements analyses, trades, and allocations in order to support the development of enterprise and systems requirements, acquisition strategies, and plans.

• Support joint requirements definition fora in collaboration with other Directorates

• Update and maintain the COMM Requirements Management Plan

• Develop and maintain resolution plan to address TBD/TBR identifiers in the requirements

• Develop and maintain interface descriptions, requirements traceability, and test/verification criteria

Lead System Architecture Development

• Identify, capture, and conduct analyses on architecture data, reference models, artifacts in order to support and coordinate development of system architectures

• Build and document business case information that includes cost, schedule, performance, and risk within the architecture options.

• Ensure the Comm Architecture Management Plan is maintained, integrated, and aligned with existing architectures among other Directorates

• Formulate architectural improvement recommendations and update baseline architectures by performing gap analysis and assessments to maximize architectural interoperability

• Develop and maintain a technology insertion roadmap as well as plans on emerging technologies and industry demonstrations

Lead System/Service Design Definition

• Assist in the evaluation of the utility of AI/ML to address IT challenges and relevant activities including potential implementations and integration of AI/ML solutions

• Support the development and update of experimental, proof of concept models or applications or simple prototypes to inform acquisition or explore new concepts

Service Management

• Ensure service catalog entries accurately reflect predecessors, dependencies, expectations, and ownership in order to align with mission and business needs

• Conduct trend analysis of service catalog entry usage and monitor, report, and refine the efficiency of service catalog entries.

• Facilitate the translation of enterprise, system, function, and acquisition-level requirements into service-level parameters that address service availability, affordability, reliability, and usability

• Convert service-level requirements into service provider parameters that address the directorates specific goals

• Continually review Service Level Requirements/Targets/Agreements across the ecosystem and deliver to all impacted parties recommended updates based on execution experience

Outreach Engineering

• Engage in collaborative meetings with external customers to share Outreach products including tending data, FAQs, updates to workflows, security policies, and new services

• Convey mission partner concerns, expectations, and satisfaction levels to responsible parties to help identify and respond to service delivery issues

• Support the design, development, and implementation of Outreach products such as presentations, talking point papers, and fact sheets.

Network Collaboration and Liaison

• Function as a Customer Liaison for assigned partners addressing agreements, program management, capacity management, network design/requirements, and financial planning

• Function as the Site Liaison for assigned partners for site surveys, permitting, fiber construction, equipment installations, circuit testing, integration into customer network, circuit activations, and coordination of site RFC

Qualifications

Required:

• BS 12-15, MS 10-13, PhD 10+
• Must possess and be able to maintain an Active Top Secret / SCI w/Poly Clearance

• Bachelor's degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics

• Outstanding customer intimacy skills; ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams as well as to interface effectively with personnel at all levels of government

• A commitment to quality, accuracy, continuous improvement, and be detailed oriented

• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively, managing multiple tasks concurrently

• Strong communication skills to liaise with technical and non-technical audiences

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills

• Demonstrated judgment, initiative, and critical thinking to execute mission objectives

• The ability to travel as necessary to satisfy assigned tasks

• Be comfortable and flexible with executing additional duties as assigned

• Demonstrated ability to use a holistic approach to, design, develop, evaluate and modify end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.

• Experience generating quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.

• Experience ensuring that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.

• Has established and coordinated the development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.

• Previous expertise acting as a customer liaison demonstrating support for business development activities and understands requirements.

• Past participation in system conceptual design, documentation, and architecting of design concepts.

• The ability to translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and worked with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements.

• Has participated in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.

• Has generated system level requirements analyses, verification procedures, and customer acceptance test procedures.

• Can review test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

Desired:

• Advanced degrees or certifications in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics

• Experience designing, researching and developing highly advanced applications, which may result in new product/business opportunities for the company

• Experience with AI/ML tools

• Previous experience in Requirements Development, System Architecture Definition, System and Service Design/Definition, Service Catalog Management. Service Level Management, Demand Management, Outreach Engineering, and acting as a Network Collaborator and Liaison

EEO Statement

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.