Location: Springfield, Virginia
Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
Background:
Assured Consulting Solutions (ACS) provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.
ACS is seeking an Expert Systems Engineer to help lead the charge by taking a multi-discipline approach to resiliency requirements engineering, developing resiliency solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, services development, integration, resiliency test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure GEOINT resiliency needs.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Assists the Government in supporting GEOINT resiliency day-to-day tasks as required in the review, development, generation, and vetting of program and NGA studies/trades/plans and/or documents including operational and functional requirements, system context diagrams, Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development and process implementation Requests for Change (RFC) etc.
Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
Assists with the evaluation of proposed changes, impacts, technical architectures and documentation, e.g. Rough Order of Magnitude (ROMs), Resilience Plans and Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning documentation.
Assist with plans, develops reference architectures, implementation plans, exercise plans, data strategies, and process flows for impacts to COOP/Resiliency and GEOINT Resilient Operations. Identify and apply "lessons learned" across supported NGA projects, as applicable
Assist the Government in the refinement of customer understanding of Mission Essential Functions (MEF) and Mission areas to drive priorities and analysis of resiliency positions
Participate in NGA, Mission Partner and Development Contractor Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and working groups to support, develop, and update program business plans, advocacy briefings, and program schedules as required.
Assist with the facilitation of government meetings, seminars, meeting invitation, tracking, documentation, and notes, appropriate media /document security.
Contribute Agency, Command, or Corporate level organization, and Major System Acquisition resiliency-to-requirements documentation/management expertise towards system and risk management to Mission Assurance/Resiliency program activities.
Provide system security oversight for multiple sites and systems; and recommend, implement, maintain, and review security documents and policies, in support of current DoD and ODNI C&A /A&A requirements
Evaluate, coordinate, and participate in GEOINT Resiliency and Mission Assurance plans and exercises.
Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
Assist the Government in the execution of the Mission Thread Analysis (MTA), identifying the tools, systems and needs required for the Resiliency Prioritization Framework.
Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments related to NGA's Resiliency Capabilities.
Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
Oversees and assist in the coordination of work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.
Required Qualifications:
Master's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Resources Information Management, Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert Level work experience as a Systems Engineer.
Expert level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, NGA Production and Dissemination, IC TCPED or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
Experience working agency level Resiliency activities
Experience with the systems engineering lifecycle.
Desired Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
Demonstrated experience with Software Development Frameworks.
Experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
Experience architecting solutions using Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Augmentation technologies.
Demonstrated experience of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises
Demonstrated experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
Essential Job Functions:
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.
The physical requirements of this position include:
Ability to work in a SCIF environment, potentially co-located with govt customers.
Education Qualifications:
Master's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Resources Information Management, Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert Level work experience as a Systems Engineer.
Years of experience:
18 years with a master's degree
Position Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.
Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.
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