FTS has an opportunity for a Systems Engineer in Chantilly, VA.
The Systems Engineer provides systems engineering and technical advisory services.
Responsibilities- Provide technical leadership for the integration of mission systems
- Responsible for system engineering, risk process management, configuration management, and technical execution of projects
- Conducts technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities
- Coordinate recommendations with government stakeholders and supports program status reviews
- Provide program management experience for new capabilities, evaluates technologies, schedules, milestones, while balancing local and enterprise impacts across the organization
- Analyze user needs, concept of operations (CONOPS), and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements
- Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
- Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations
- Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
Required Skills/Qualifications- TS/SCI with polygraph
- BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
- 10+ years' relevant experience
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
- Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
- Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems development, validation and verification
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
Preferred Skills/Qualifications- MS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
