Master's degree in systems engineering or related STEM field with 15+ years of experience, or Bachelor's degree with 18+ years of relevant experience.
Expertise in the DoD/IC Acquisition Process and requirements management.
Proficient in systems engineering lifecycle and complex systems-of-systems.
Familiar with secure software development, CI/CD workflows, and various programming languages like Python, JAVA, or JavaScript.
Knowledge of government Security Approval processes such as SWAP and ATO.
Responsibilities
Assist with requirements engineering and solutions development for the National System of Geospatial-Intelligence.
Support planning and analysis of user requirements and cloud service capabilities.
Advise on solution designs based on requirement analysis and new technologies.
Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks.
Benefits
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (Flexible/Combined PTO, Bereavement Leave, 11 Company Paid Holidays)
401K Retirement Plan with employer match
Professional Development Training Reimbursement
Flexible/remote work schedule.
Full Job Description
Position: Platform Engineer Clearance Required: TS/SCI Clearance Location: Onsite in Springfield, VA Position Type: Full-Time
Position Overview The Platform Engineer plays a senior leadership role supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the broader Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). This position provides expert-level systems engineering across the National System of Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and Federal partners to ensure the timely, resilient, and accurate delivery of GEOINT capabilities. The role requires deep expertise in systems engineering of complex systems-of-systems, cloud and service-oriented architectures, and the integration of AI/ML, automation, and advanced analytics across enterprise platforms. The Platform Engineer will guide technical strategy, oversee engineering teams, and advise government leadership on architecture, requirements, and emerging technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Assists the Government in providing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
Support the Government in identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring technical, schedule, cost, and operational risk throughout the program lifecycle.
Develop and maintain integrated risk registers, perform risk impact assessments, and support risk-based decision making.
Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
Assists in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
Leads the integration AI/ML across other Programs at NGA, the DIE, and the IC.
Demonstrates knowledge of the current DIE, NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.
Required Qualifications
Master's degree in systems engineering and 15+ or Bachelor's Degree and 18+ years of experience in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM expert level experience.
Expert level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
Experience with systems engineering lifecycle.
Technology guru with understanding of secure software development and continuous integration/ continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows
Has one to two years of demonstrated experience applying one of the following coding languages: Python, JAVA, JavaScript or similar programming language, to perform full stack software development.
Experience and knowledge with government Security Approval process (e.g., SWAP, ATO)
Experience developing software leveraging Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFE) or other industry standard Agile software development framework
Desired Qualifications
Doctorate in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
Software Development Framework certification.
INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
Licensure as a professional engineer.
Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
ACSM
ASCE
ASPRS
OGC
SAREM
USGIF
Work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial (U) Intelligence technologies.
Demonstrated experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
Benefits:
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Visions Plans
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (Flexible/Combined PTO, Bereavement Leave, 11 Company Paid Holidays)
