Description

　　Join a winning team! Be part of a dynamic team that delivers excellence and quality for the NRO’s Systems Engineering Directorate (SED). SAIC is seeking to fill an opening for a Space Enterprise Architect to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the enterprise architecting, analysis, and systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems. Make a difference in securing our nation’s security through quality engineering and innovation.

　　Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

　　Work across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs

　　Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and external stakeholders

　　Identify and defining future space capability needs

　　Identify key architecture and system level trades

　　Develop strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architectures

　　Assess the performance of current and future architecture concepts

　　Provide technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process

　　Develop architecture models to capture the holistic view of the enterprise

　　Prepare briefings for senior decision makers

　　Facilitate multi-stakeholder summits, workshops, and technical exchanges between senior government leadership, management teams, and technical teams for national space programs to achieve alignment in program strategic vision and direction, capability management, mission organization design, and solution architecture concept development

　　Develop and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate program and mission strategic concepts to influence solution conceptual designs for cost, schedule, performance, risk, and resilience to disruptive events or threats

　　Advise on enterprise architecture landscape, including technology, information, data, security, and integration

　　Develop technology strategy and planning deliverables to address risks and technology gaps

　　Formulate enterprise architecture solution strategies and roadmaps

　　Qualifications

　　Bachelor’s degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 14 years of relevant experience with 10 being at the Chantilly IC Customer; Masters and 12 years or more experience; PhD and 9 years or more experience

　　Active TS/SCI clearance

　　Solid understanding of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

　　Proven experience with technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing

　　Proficiency with architecture tools and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, UAF)

　　Proven experience with the use of architecting across the IC

　　Architecture domain understanding from a holistic enterprise perspective

　　Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs, impacts, and advancement

　　Proven experience in development and use of descriptive modeling for architecture solutions (e.g., building models and diagrams with Cameo EA)

　　Experience with lifecycle readiness from enterprise solution architecture concept development through system decommissioning

　　Ability to develop project plans, identify high-impact deliverables, and manage schedule commitments

　　Experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews

　　Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums

　　Proven experience using and developing solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive solutions

　　Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment

　　Strong oral and written communication skills

　　Desired Qualifications

　　Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline

　　Expert-level understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes

　　Expert-level proficiency with use of architecting to support senior level enterprise decision making

　　Expert in enterprise architecture, strategy development and enterprise solutions

　　Experience with IC customer’s Request for Change (RFC) process and the Engineering Review Board process

　　Experience in Cameo and SysML applications

　　Experience integrating enterprise architecting tools with MODSIM analysis

　　Substantive experience in the space, intelligence, and/or defense domains

　　Experience, education, training and/or certification in strategic fore sighting practices

　　Experience working closely with key customer agencies in the defense and intelligence community, including strong knowledge of their domain and strong professional networks

　　Demonstrated knowledge of implementing an Enterprise Architecture framework in a federal Agency/Department

　　Prior US military and/or IC customer experience

　　Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.REQNUMBER: 2401093

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