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Sierra Nevada Corporation · 1 week ago

Sr Principal Systems Engineer - Systems Architect

Lone Tree, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$190K/yr - $261K/yr

16+ years exp

Sierra Nevada Corporation is a global leader in aerospace and national security. As a Sr Principal Systems Architect, you will guide the development of the Survivable Airborne Operations Center program, focusing on complex system designs and leading a team of engineers through architecture definition.

AerospaceCyber SecurityHardwareNavigationProduct DesignSecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Guide the development and support of the Survivable Airborne Operations Center program

Develop architectures, beginning with logical and working with Integrated Product Teams to define the physical architecture

Allocate requirements to architecture elements, derive requirements to drive details into the model, create and refine modeling standards and design patterns, distribute model elements to internal and external teams with merge model elements back into the baseline

Coordinate with the customer engineering team, internal team, and suppliers

Qualification

Systems EngineeringRequirements ManagementArchitecture ModelingModel Based Systems EngineeringTechnical Risk ManagementAerospace Systems IntegrationVirtualization TechnologiesConfiguration ManagementTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsProblem SolvingCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's of Science degree in System Engineering or related discipline and typically 16 or more years of relevant experience

Higher education may substitute for relevant experience

Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practices

Progressive experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams

Thorough understanding of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles

Experience creating logical and physical architecture models

Experience in Federated Modeling and Model Management Plan Development

Experience in highly-technical high-pace environments with stringent schedules

Extensive experience with aircraft modifications with mission systems that included RF communications networks, audio and visual systems, NC3 mission systems, virtualization, and multi-enclave technologies

Experience coordinating technical solutions across programs to ensure consistent approaches on internal teams and suppliers

Preferred

Master's Degree in Systems Engineering or related discipline and/or Architecture or MBSE certifications

Advanced experience with requirements management and system modelling tools, such as Jama, Dassault 3DX, Cameo, Dymola, and MATLAB

Practical knowledge of industry standard system engineering design principles, requirements management approaches, Traditional Systems Engineering and Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) approaches

Experience with government open system standards such as OMS, FACE, CMOSS

Experience with model data management and configuration management tools and processes with large, distributed models coordinated across multiple sites and suppliers

Experienced in the application of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288

INCOSE CSEP/ESEP Certification

Extensive background in assessing and addressing Aerospace and Defense System Complexity and System Integration challenges

Experience leading a multi-disciplinary team through system baseline definition and maturation exercises in a complex development setting

Experience in executing high-impact trade studies

Thorough understanding of establishing, tracking, and addressing key programmatic risks

Virtualization architectures including Virtual Machines and Containerization technologies