Job description
Overview:
Our Chief Architect team is responsible for coordinating and supporting ground requirements and architectures in the remote sensing domain; supporting enterprise and system level requirements for future systems; supporting demonstrations and exercises in support of delivered system capabilities and mission closure; generating and presenting engineering briefings; and interfacing with numerous customers. This position requires an understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on core systems engineering processes in support of end-to-end mission and services closure.
The candidate will focus on trades, capability definition, CONOPS generation, and interaction with Mission Partners. The candidate will help customer acquisitions leveraging agile principles to define capability roadmaps and Solution Epic generation in alignment with capability needs. The candidate will provide subject matter expertise for IC customer senior leadership and their DoD counterparts regarding future GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT architecture requirements and planned mission capabilities. This includes supporting IC exercises, conducting assessments of critical joint Air and Space Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) warfighter capabilities, identifying gaps and shortfalls supporting decisions to validate and prioritize joint requirements with mission partners for future acquisition to integrate joint architectures, including edge nodes, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Sensor to Shooter (S2S) network interoperability, and supporting agile test and DevOps verification strategies and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT mission capabilities.
The selected candidate will have the aptitude to assess schedules and risks, supporting readiness events for system and acquisition-level ground milestones, and may lead projects for systems team work, have frequent client interactions, and lead system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices. The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors, and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. Candidate will lead technical consultations, IC coordination meetings, and support to recommendation briefings. Qualifications:
Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities:
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of systems engineering, mission integration and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced Systems Engineer, to help us evaluate and guide future system architectures as they evolve to commercial trends like Agile development, Cloud migration, and streamlined DevOps deployments. This is an opportunity to build your experience using the latest open source tools, trends, and techniques on technical issues supporting the mission of our Intelligence Community Customer.
Our Chief Architect team is responsible for coordinating and supporting ground requirements and architectures in the remote sensing domain; supporting enterprise and system level requirements for future systems; supporting demonstrations and exercises in support of delivered system capabilities and mission closure; generating and presenting engineering briefings; and interfacing with numerous customers. This position requires an understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on core systems engineering processes in support of end-to-end mission and services closure.
The candidate will focus on trades, capability definition, CONOPS generation, and interaction with Mission Partners. The candidate will help customer acquisitions leveraging agile principles to define capability roadmaps and Solution Epic generation in alignment with capability needs. The candidate will provide subject matter expertise for IC customer senior leadership and their DoD counterparts regarding future GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT architecture requirements and planned mission capabilities. This includes supporting IC exercises, conducting assessments of critical joint Air and Space Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) warfighter capabilities, identifying gaps and shortfalls supporting decisions to validate and prioritize joint requirements with mission partners for future acquisition to integrate joint architectures, including edge nodes, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Sensor to Shooter (S2S) network interoperability, and supporting agile test and DevOps verification strategies and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT mission capabilities.
The selected candidate will have the aptitude to assess schedules and risks, supporting readiness events for system and acquisition-level ground milestones, and may lead projects for systems team work, have frequent client interactions, and lead system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices. The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors, and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. Candidate will lead technical consultations, IC coordination meetings, and support to recommendation briefings.
Required Skills:
- Clearance required: TS/SCI but must be able to obtain a Poly
- BS 12-15 years, MS 10-13 years, PhD 10+ years
- BS in engineering, physics, intelligence or policy related degree
- Integration and closure experience within overall customer domain
- Detailed knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture
- Expertise in mission technical capabilities and system performance analysis and assessment
- Experience identifying user needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives
- Experience in supporting Requirements Engineering, CONOPS development, and system integration to accommodate End to End Systems Engineering.
- Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority
Strongly Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT, and mult-INT domains) and technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing of one or more GEOINT and/or SIGINT systems, including sensor knowledge
- Knowledge of, and experience executing, SAFe Agile methodology
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