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Job ID: 2505152
Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US
Date Posted: 2025-04-29
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Solution Architect to join the National Security and Space (NSS) Sector providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions.
The Space Protection Solution Architect is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative in coordinating with stakeholders and end user operators the integration and development of future Space Protection requirements for supported space and ground systems. The Space Protection Solution Architect collaborates with the Space enterprise and SPO mission-related SMEs to identify future space protection capability objectives and derive associated technical specifications, initiate and track future functional requirements, and evaluate potential solutions to inform SPO's future acquisition efforts culminating in the deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
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.
Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US
Date Posted: 2025-04-29
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Solution Architect to join the National Security and Space (NSS) Sector providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions.
The Space Protection Solution Architect is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative in coordinating with stakeholders and end user operators the integration and development of future Space Protection requirements for supported space and ground systems. The Space Protection Solution Architect collaborates with the Space enterprise and SPO mission-related SMEs to identify future space protection capability objectives and derive associated technical specifications, initiate and track future functional requirements, and evaluate potential solutions to inform SPO's future acquisition efforts culminating in the deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Represents the SPO as a technical SME to synchronize with stakeholders, organizational system engineering management processes, and operations equities to ensure common understanding of the future capabilities and interfaces needed by space operators to advance the nation's space resiliency posture
- Supports the SPO in the system technical capability planning to acquire ground-processing systems
- Coordinates, develops and presents briefings to engineering boards to guide the SPO through the engineering and acquisition trade spaces
- Serves as the SPO technical representative in managing requirements, monitoring the progress and providing technical support to software development, and advising in the implementation of space protection capabilities to deploy to ground processing systems
- Serves as an individual contributor and member of a team of SMEs that work to develop technical plans and documentation, coordinate the acquisition, and support the integration of ground processing systems with space systems to protect space assets
- Supports COTRs and developers to refine understanding, designs, and testing capabilities to meet user needs
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's and nine (9) or more years' experience; master's and seven (7) or more years' experience; PhD and four (4) or more years' experience
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly
- Experience with IC or DOD software systems and concept of operations development
- Experience developing, testing, or fielding systems
- Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems, activities, or operations
Desired Qualifications:
- SDA Experience and familiarity with Indication and Warning (I&W) tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Experience within NRO
- Experience integrating space and ground systems
- Familiarity with Agile development to include participation in scrums, development of solution epics/features, and continuous integration/continuous deployment
- Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA
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.
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