Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: None
Type of Travel: None
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Responsibilities:
- Lead systems engineering activities across the full lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture development, integration, verification, deployment, and sustainment.
- Develop, manage, and trace system requirements to ensure alignment with operational needs and architectural frameworks, including DoDAF and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Create and maintain systems engineering documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs), Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs).
- Design and evaluate system architectures, concepts, and technical solutions to meet performance, security, and mission requirements.
- Allocate and validate system requirements across hardware, software, facilities, personnel, and operational processes.
- Lead interface definition, system integration, and technical coordination activities across engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Support and participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), technical reviews, Configuration Control Boards (CCBs), and other engineering forums.
- Develop verification and validation strategies, test plans, evaluation criteria, and acceptance methods to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Conduct engineering analyses, trade studies, and modeling activities to evaluate performance, cost, risk, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle impacts.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks using industry-standard risk management methodologies, including Earned Value Management (EVM) principles.
- Apply cybersecurity, Information Assurance (IA), and DoD standards throughout system design and implementation.
- Support configuration management activities and maintain technical baseline integrity.
- Contribute to certification, accreditation, and JCIDS-related activities and documentation.
- Utilize modeling, simulation, prototyping, and analytical techniques to reduce development risk and optimize system performance.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
- 5+ additional years of Systems Engineering experience may be substituted for the required bachelor's degree.
- 20+ years of Systems Engineering experience supporting programs, projects, or contracts of similar scope, complexity, and mission impact.
- Demonstrated experience planning, leading, and executing systems engineering efforts across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience developing and managing system requirements, architectures, and engineering documentation.
- Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles, methodologies, and lifecycle processes.
- Experience supporting DoD programs and applying DoD architectural, engineering, and security standards.
Desired:
- Experience working with DoDAF, SOA, JCIDS, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies.
- Experience leading large, complex system integration and modernization efforts.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, Information Assurance requirements, and DoD certification and accreditation processes.
- Experience conducting trade studies, system performance analysis, reliability engineering, and risk management.
- Familiarity with modeling, simulation, digital engineering, and prototyping techniques.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to translate operational requirements into innovative, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.
This position is contingent on funding and may not be filled immediately. However, this position is representative of positions within CACI that are consistently available. Individuals who apply may also be considered for other positions at CACI.
Pay Range:
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$131,800 - $290,000
