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Position Overview:
ANSER is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer/Subject Matter Expert to support the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO) in Chantilly. In this role you will provide engineering support for the planning, acquisition, and fielding of an enterprise of interdependent major systems ensuring the success of the government customer. You will provide NRO/SED requirements compilation, analysis, & traceability for warfighter and broad user community needs and satisfaction criteria from the SOC level down to Acquisition Office (AO). NRO systems support spans a variety of enterprise and/or programmatic engineering functions including planning and integration; requirements, schedule, risk, and configuration management; lifecycle readiness, verification and validation, transition management and mission assurance.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Create, deliver, and maintain an integrated activity forecast supporting major system acquisitions, including major acquisition reviews and requirement events, budget events, including major process events in the Intelligence Community Capability Requirements and Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System processes
Investigate and advise on proposed architecture alternatives and options to mitigate capability gaps and take advantage of opportunities improving the enterprise capabilities
Coordinate and execute engineering investigations of architecture concepts to assess feasibility, interoperability, and suitability
Coordinate, integrate, and execute requirements management activities in accordance with the customer's defined processes.
Support the refinement and baselining of allocated requirements and maintain traceability following agency approved standards and practices and consistent with JCIDS and ICCR processes
Adhere to agency's schedule management process; update, deliver, and maintain scheduling products with integrated milestones and identifying dependency linkages
Conduct schedule analysis, including critical path analysis, schedule validation and quality validation
Executing Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management process, advise and support risk working groups
Create, deliver, and maintain risk assessments
Coordinate, integrate, and execute risk, issues, and opportunities (R/I/O) processes at the working level, system level and enterprise level
Support the identification, assessment, and incorporation of Configuration Items into approved Configuration Items, support the request for change (RFC) process, review RFC technical responses, and assess for necessary requirements changes
Coordinate, integrate and execute the lifecycle readiness process consistent with the agency's standards, methods, and practices
Coordinate, integrate, and execute the verification and validation management processes at the system and enterprise level
Coordinate, integrate, and execute verification and validation of requirements per the requirements closure process
Create, deliver, and maintain a configuration-managed archive and library of test data
Support Mission Assurance activities, including supporting and advising on enterprise-wide standards for the development and vetting of new hardware and software
Update, deliver and maintain the agency wide standards baseline
Investigate, track, and advise on mergers and acquisitions of companies within the space industrial base providing critical technology and capability for impact to acquisitions
Coordinate, integrate, and execute technical studies of current or planned industrial capabilities, new technologies, and state of the art manufacturing for suitability
Investigate, track, and advise on risks, issues, and opportunities associated with mission assurance, industrial base, and supply chain issues affecting new and existing programs
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree.
20+ years of related system engineering experience.
TS/SCI with Poly Security Clearance.
Systems Engineering experience with Model-Based Engineering applications and technology
OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional certification or demonstrated commensurate level of knowledge
Knowledge of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
Knowledge and experience with System Modeling Language (SysML)
Experience with Cameo, SparxEA, or Rhapsody tool suites
Experience working in an Agile development environment
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with ANSER, please call 703-416-2000 or e-mail Recruiting@anser.org. ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
