SAIC

Agile Systems Engineer

SAIC$160K — $200K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years or Master’s degree with 3+ years experience; PhD with no experience considered applicable.
  • Current Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph is mandatory.
  • Experience in Systems Engineering and acquisition processes.
  • Proven skills in risk/opportunity management and requirements management.
  • Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies like Scrum and SAFe.
  • Background in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) processes.
  • Knowledge of systems engineering documentation such as CONOPS and test artifacts.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver systems engineering products like integration plans and validation approaches.
  • Support enterprise-level systems engineering activities for readiness events and decision forums.
  • Translate stakeholder needs into actionable technical requirements and manage them effectively.
  • Analyze and decompose system requirements, ensuring architectures reflect mission needs.
  • Manage risks and issues, communicating impacts to enterprise-level decisions clearly.
  • Support the development of cross-program engineering standards.
  • Integrate systems engineering insights across mission teams and partnerships.
  • Prepare technical assessments and documentation for senior leadership review.

Benefits

  • Work within a critical defense program with significant stakeholder impact.
  • Engagement in a diverse portfolio of significant ground capabilities.
  • Opportunities to shape system capabilities and technical decision-making.
  • Support a high-tempo environment with opportunities for cross-functional collaboration.
  • Involvement in enterprise-wide systems engineering standards development.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Agile Systems Engineer to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program in Chantilly, VA. LANDMARK AOS is SAIC's large Prime Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contract, supporting the customer's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

In this role, you will provide enterprise-level systems engineering expertise across cloud-based software development activities, ensuring architectures, requirements, schedules, and technical decisions align with mission needs. You will help shape system capabilities, identify risks and opportunities, and guide engineering rigor across a diverse portfolio of Significant Ground Capabilities (SGCs).

Note: Only candidates with a current Top Secret/SCI with Poly will be considered.

Key Responsibilities to include:
  • Develop and deliver authoritative systems engineering products, including integration plans, verification and validation approaches, test processes, requirements traceability, and enterprise schedules/roadmaps.
  • Execute enterprise-level systems engineering activities, supporting readiness events, stakeholder coordination, and senior-leadership decision forums.
  • Translate stakeholder needs into actionable technical and operational requirements, and coordinate requirements management activities with acquisition offices.
  • Analyze system and functional requirements, decompose documentation, and maintain system architectures that accurately capture mission needs and identify risks.
  • Guide risk, issue, and opportunity management, ensuring impacts to enterprise-level decisions are clearly communicated and understood.
  • Support development of cross-program systems engineering standards within the Enterprise Management Framework.
  • Integrate across mission teams, providing systems engineering insight to mission integrators, capability managers, and cross-functional partners.
  • Review and evaluate key systems engineering artifacts, offering objective technical assessments and recommendations.
  • Prepare and deliver technical assessments, briefings, and documentation for senior leadership and major enterprise reviews.
  • Coordinate and support execution of major systems engineering reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise processes and mission priorities.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.
  • Experience supporting a Systems Engineering organization, with an understanding of Systems Engineering and acquisition processes.
  • Demonstrated expertise in risk and opportunity management, requirements management, configuration management, and cross-program integration.
  • Experience supporting Agile software development (Scrum, SAFe).
  • Background in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V).
  • Working knowledge of SE documentation, including CONOPS, SRDs, ICDs, and verification/test artifacts.
  • Experience with process improvement and metrics development.
  • Prior support to the Intelligence Community or DoD.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across government, SETA, FFRDC, and contractor teams in a high-tempo environment.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

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

About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 26,000 employees and operates in more than 70 countries. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. SAIC provides services to the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and civilian agencies. The company also serves commercial customers in the healthcare, energy, and financial services sectors.
Learn more about SAIC
Size
26,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$206 million
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+10.7%
Revenue
$6.8 billion
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