Job Description:

Provide senior systems engineering support to an office responsible for the management and oversight of technology transition into and out of the Enterprise Architecture. These transition activities include managing the transition and decommission of legacy technologies. The technology transition office provides support not only across the customer organization but also to external IC partners, to ensure transition stakeholder requirements are understood and considered. Transition activities include managing and supporting the technology transition office process, monitoring and measuring progress through the process, identifying risks and recommending mitigations, and supporting planning activities. Customer support requests are evaluated by the Government to determine alignment with its scope and objectives. Discrete task descriptions are created for all requests, and are used for tracking and to enable contractor assignments.

This Systems Engineer will provide systems engineering expertise in researching systems, services and capabilities to be decommissioned or transitioned, documenting the known details to enable decision making by the stakeholders and capability owners.  This role involves planning, monitoring, and generating systems engineering artifacts to assist the government to facilitate technology transition into and out of the capabilities architecture, and works with the government to facilitate, lead and document decision meetings to engage stakeholders in accomplishing the work.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline plus at least 20 years of systems engineering experience. A Master’s degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.
• Ability to plan and deliver engineering project with unique/ complex aspects that impact major capabilities or high priority to the enterprise.
• Ability to independently resolve important engineering issues requiring the use of advanced technology
• Five or more years of experience supporting programs and project within this customer space
• This is a full time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year
• Position requires TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired:

• Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in technical program / project management. Project implementation is highly desired.
• Experience in defining an effort for mission outcomes and objective to key tasks, collaborating with others, monitoring and preparing reports.
• Ability to embrace cross-directorate collaboration, and work with/advise others who have little or no Systems Engineering Experience.
• Experience in writing and/or managing the development of functional requirements and other related SE documentation.
• Experience in the development/implementation of SE processes and procedures.
• Recent broad SIGINT engineering experience
• Experience with Confluence and Jira in managing Systems Engineering Projects