R & D Architect Support Engineer/Systems Engineer - TS/SCI

KBR - Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

KBR is seeking a R&D Architect Support Engineer/Systems Engineer to join a dynamic systems engineering team supporting the NRO Ground Directorate (GED)/Advanced Ground Group (AGG) organization. This position is critical in supporting the Applied Research & Development (R&D) acquisition, integration, and test initiatives, with a specific focus on transitioning applications and mission capabilities to the operations environment for Multi-Intelligence hard intelligence problems. The successful candidate will be a technical member of the team, collaborating closely with various stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of mission objectives. In this role, the engineer will provide day-to-day collaboration with the Government Customer, FFRDC teams, SETA, and GED development contractors, as well as external agency mission partners. The engineer will oversee and monitor development and integration activities, ensuring alignment of priorities and resources with US Government requirements and objectives. A key responsibility will be to analyze a wide variety of mission thread projects for their impact on the existing and planned system architecture, ensuring that decisions regarding AGG R&E Systems are consistent with an open-architecture construct. The engineer will also advise senior and mid-level US Government managers on acquisition decisions regarding a portfolio of AGG projects, support technical consultations, coordinate meetings, and prepare and present architecture and acquisition recommendation briefings. Establishing and maintaining the System View-1 (SV-1) Systems Interface Description document baseline will be essential, linking together the operational and systems architecture. This position requires a strong understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a focus on core systems engineering processes to support end-to-end mission and services closure.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day collaboration with the Government Customer, FFRDC teams, SETA, and GED development contractors as well as external agency mission partners.
• Provide oversight, monitor development and integration activities, and ensure alignment of priorities and resources consistent with US Government requirements and objectives.
• Analyze a wide variety of mission thread projects for impact on the existing and planned system architecture.
• Assist in ensuring decisions about AGG R&E Systems are consistent with an open-architecture construct.
• Advise senior and mid-level US Government managers on acquisition decisions regarding a portfolio of AGG projects.
• Support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and prepare and present architecture and acquisition recommendation briefings.
• Establish and maintain the System View-1 (SV-1) Systems Interface Description document baseline linking together the operational and systems architecture.

Requirements

• B.S. in engineering, physics, or related technical degree or relevant experience.
• Experience in space/ground aerospace systems engineering.
• Knowledge of system architectures, architecture evolution, and interface definition.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the NRO with special emphasis on Ground Systems.
• At least 35 years' experience with space/ground testing and systems engineering, systems integration, Verification, Validation and Transition (IVV&T) activities.
• Experience supporting agile software development and verification strategies and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded mission capabilities.
• Experience with test strategies and plans, executing tests, analyzing data, and summarizing results.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with architecting in an agile software development paradigm.
• Demonstrated understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Ability to perform architecture analysis, trades, and system integration closure activities.
• Experience within an acquisition office in the NRO, NGA, or related Intelligence Community.
• Prior experience with NRO ground mission processing or mission control systems, and/or mission operations is highly desired.
• Experience with commercial IVV&T techniques in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments is also highly desirable.
• Experience interacting with User Community across a wide variety of intelligence and phenomenology disciplines.