Senior Systems Engineer

Title:

Senior Systems Engineer

KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory services at NRO/MOD/OE in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will:

• Lead and oversee technical efforts of eight systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services ranging from tactical support (e.g. configuration management, board facilitation, action
• tracking, etc.) to strategic services (e.g. technical planning, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, etc.)
• Continually assess team's tasks; realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate; drive projects, customer requirements to closure
• Working with Contract Element Lead and Government managers, maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency
• Provide technical support to government points of contacts; Identify and communicate system engineering risks,
• issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
• Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government - across the MOD enterprise
• Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Qualificati

• 13 years' technical experience
• Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Poly
• Bachelors of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required
• Demonstrated leadership success on variety of complex systems engineering projects impacting mission operations
• In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
• Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and/or mission processing functions
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
• Experience in mission operations environment - ops tempo, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations
• Familiar with digital engineering, systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.); cloud technologies
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project)

Desired Qualifications

• SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications

In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.