Senior System Engineer

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 development, engineering, and communication skills? That is why we need you to apply your ingenuity and bring your innovative ideas to a consulting advisory services company. Solvarus Consulting has been dedicated to solving the toughest challenges by providing support to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Help us shorten the time it takes to get critical tools developed and into the hands of warfighters who need them and to quickly aid the people who need it.

As a Senior System Engineer you will support engineering and integration efforts with key mission partners delivering significant modernization capabilities with the goal of leveraging these partnerships to identify opportunities for mission partners to assist our customer to align current and future technology transformation efforts with current and future architecture planning, development, and implementation, while organically advancing modernization efforts. Assist in understanding interdependencies with mission partners, communicate resource tradeoffs that need to be made, and help develop short-term and long-term strategic approaches that support mission transformation. Review and draft documentation to include management briefs and user outreach on project activities.

Duties include:

• Address architecture dependencies and ensure all strategic efforts are as aligned as possible.

• Draft documentation as needed to explain both the as-is and to-be state for the project, and capture lessons learned.

• Engage with mission customers and users to shape and define future capabilities.

• Participate in customer and program strategic and tactical planning activities.

• Participate in the development of system architectures to evolve mission services.

• Strategically assess new technologies for fit-for-use by mission services, employing quantifiable and traceable criteria to enable future decision making.

• Conduct AoAs and provide data-driven recommendations.

• Identify key decision points and provide recommendations to support strategic objectives.

• Conduct user outreach to communicate planned architecture changes, operational concepts, and project status, and accept user inputs for optimization of delivery plans.

• When needed, produce weekly activity reports for use by government customers.

• Develop and present effective technical presentations to senior management and to technical/non-technical audiences; must possess strong written and verbal communications skills.

• Explain technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences; and conduct issue coordination within and across agencies.

• Work with customers to resolve technical and programmatic issues .

Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• 12+ years of systems engineering, systems integration, or systems development experience.

• Experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including DoD/IC Acquisition Process, SAFe Agile acquisition product ownership, merging disparate architectures, CONOPS development, defining a vision for future work based on incomplete requirements, conducting imagery and/or geospatial analysis.

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more disciplines of GEOINT analytic tradecraft and analysis production system development

• 2+ years of experience in government acquisition processes.

• 1+ years of experience in agile Systems development.

• Prior experience in the IC.

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