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

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 15 years of relevant experience with 10 being at the Chantilly IC Customer

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

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)

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 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 foresighting 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

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

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.