Compass Group USA · 10 hours ago
Senior Systems Engineer #2060
Chantilly, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCompass, Inc. is a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government, seeking a motivated individual for the Senior Systems Engineer role. This position involves supporting the National Reconnaissance Office's systems engineering efforts, providing expertise in ground mission capabilities, and managing architectural and requirements activities.
AdviceFood and BeverageHospitalityProfessional Services
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Support the development, maintenance, management, and implementation of GED architectures
Support architectural endeavors aligning with GED's Ground Vision
Provide recommendations/technical expertise for cloud architecture evolution and end-to-end integration of data-centric applications and distributed networks, enabling information sharing, efficiencies, and interoperability. This includes:
Operating in a hybrid cloud (on prem hardware with cloud)
Multiple cloud architecture supporting 2 or more different cloud service providers
Architecture resiliency with or without cloud service accessibility
Managed services using any cloud provider
Ensure Special Program Office (SPO) infrastructure, frameworks, prototypes, and platforms (to include mission unique environments) align with GED's Ground Vision and architectures
Develop, document, maintain, and coordinate ground architectures, consistent with the following activities:
Identification and recommendation of architectural improvements/opportunities for both current and future ground architectures maximizing GED enterprise services and tools as legacy systems are modernized and support new mission requirements/architectures are proposed
Enable automation, data centricity, application service-centric concepts, hybrid/multi-cloud environments, software frameworks, microservices, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Evaluation of GED, NRO, and Intelligence Community (IC) architectures to identify opportunities to integrate/consolidate functions, capabilities, frameworks, platforms, and architectures
Development and maintenance of hybrid multi-cloud reference architectures and design patterns
Integration of resilient and isolated architectures supporting mission scenarios
Identification, assessment, and documentation of dependencies, discrepancies, and gaps in capabilities between current and planned future ground architectures
Participation in and support of NRO/Systems Engineering Directorate's (SED), NRO CIO/CISO, and other agencies' architectural forums and development efforts, where applicable
Supporting development and monitoring adherence to GED-level and SPO-level architectural standards that align with overarching Federal, IC, and DoD architectures; and
Creation and maintenance of architectural views, based on architectural frameworks as directed by the Government
Requirements management activities will include management of traditionally developed System and Function Requirements, Interface Documents, Systems Design Specs, Agile requirements (Epics, Features, Stories) and other types of requirements, capability requests, and needs as provided by users and external sources
Support the development, maintenance, and management of requirements for GED programs that could include programs that are managed via both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Support the development, evaluation, communication, and use of roadmaps and schedules
Abide by and support the SPO and GED schedule management process
Prepare readiness artifacts in accordance with NRO Instruction (NI) 130-1-6 NRO Life Cycle Readiness and associated addendums and Agile Blueprint
Support the execution of GED's System and Ground Readiness Process, e.g., Ground Readiness Review (GRR)
Support, facilitate, and participate in site surveys, pre-ship reviews, and audit reviews
Support the planning and execution of SPO-level, multi-project (solution/system), and end-to-end integration, test, verification, and validation activities
Witness test events, provide test satisfaction recommendations, and prepare test reports for SPO-level projects
Work with stakeholders to monitor and provide assessments of development and integration test data sets, to ensure current, relevant data is used for various types of system evaluation
Facilitate and monitor the end-to-end integration and interoperability of the developed baseline systems
Evaluate and coordinate FGA readiness actions and report on comprehensive closure of required capabilities
Support the transition management process (e.g., NSIS) and engage with developers, acquisition offices, and stakeholders to coordinate delivery of operational capabilities
Ensure proposed capability transitions are in compliance with ground architectures
Support the planning, coordination, and completion of the decommissioning of projects
Support the Government in conducting SPO-level ERBs and Configuration Control Boards
Write, review, and recommend responses to Requests for Changes (RFCs) and Change Requests for SPO-level projects to include developer RFC impact statements
Abide by and facilitate SPO-level risk/issue/opportunity management processes by:
Supporting the GED Risk Forum
Identifying GED enterprise (cross-SPO) and SPO-level risks/issues/opportunities
Developing and assessing risks, issues, and opportunities for GED programs and systems to include the risks/issues/opportunities statements and mitigation strategies and coordinating with the appropriate stakeholders
Support GED's thread management to align and synchronize acquisitions, planning, and support architecture and requirements analyses and trade studies
Develop, propose, collect, and report metrics to monitor acquisition implementations, synchronization, and to track SPO-level and cross-SPO baseline execution
Support the thread leads' increment planning events and solution demonstrations by:
Providing SPO inputs to the thread architecture views and roadmaps
Assessing and reporting SPO inputs to the thread's development status
Evaluating risks and issues and recommending mitigation options
Providing SPO input to planning efforts and program reviews
Verifying that major mission and thread capabilities are addressed in requirements
Support the use of Digital Engineering (DE), to include the use of Model Based Systems Engineering and other DE disciplines to support systems engineering and acquisition practices
Support the integration of a common environment consistent with select architecture models, such as the MBSE model
Assess architecture alternatives via modeling to demonstrate measurable outcomes and impacts to enable SPO-level decision-making
Use modeling and visualization capabilities to compare architecture alternatives and evaluate changes to 1) current and future architectures, 2) CONOPs, 3) proposed systems, 4) potential capabilities, 5) prototypes, and 6) new requirements
Support coordination with Chief Architect (CA) to ensure activities are aligned with GED-level Systems Engineering guidance for FGA 2.0 and 3.0 activities
Support prototyping, innovation, and exploration of new ways to provide advanced mission management, processing, and orchestration capabilities
Support research and development. This does not include performing research and development
Support the preparation and presentation of strategic planning products (e.g., the ground vision, strategic initiatives and ground architecture status) at GED- and SPO-level events
Support the use of GED enterprise managed knowledge repositories for discovering and sharing information to include GED policy, directives, acquisition guidance, and terminology, as well as all reports, studies, and milestone activities
Make recommendations, develop plans, and execute Government-approved outreach activities and TEMs with oversight organizations, NRO directorates, mission partners, users, industry partners, FFRDCs and national labs to:
Facilitate open communications
Identify mission needs, technical issues, and potential resolutions
Communicate the value proposition of SPO capabilities and services
Promote user engagement with stakeholders and product consumers
Assess new technologies/capabilities
Qualification
Required
Requires a Technical Degree and 10 to 12 years of experience with a BS/BA; or 8 to 10 years with a MS/MA; or 5 to 7 years with a PhD
Must possess and be able to maintain TS/SCI with Poly
Intelligence Community experience and work history
Experience developing technical architecture solutions
Knowledge of intelligence collection methods, capabilities, and tasking processes
Experience in supporting Requirements Engineering, CONOPS development, and system integration to accommodate End to End Systems Engineering
Experience/Certifications with Model Base Systems Engineering software
Strong project management skills and ability to concisely brief project status to senior leadership
Apply Agile principles to management of a government/contractor development team working disparate projects
Expected to create/brief packages which include technical requirements, implementation plan, risks and success criteria
Knowledge of, and experience executing, SAFe Agile methodology
Excellent communication skills, multi-task and lead several projects simultaneously
Company
Compass Group USA
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