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SAIC Senior Cyber Protection Architect in CHANTILLY, Virginia
Description
Join a winning team! SAIC’s Intel Space Organization is currently hiring for a customer within the Intelligence Community (IC) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating national security-related systems based in space, in the air, and on the ground. SAIC is a strong company providing opportunities for energetic individuals with a strong desire to expand their knowledge while increasing their responsibilities.
The Intel Space Organization has an opening for a senior cyber protection architect to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the enterprise architecting, analysis, and systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Working across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs
Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, and mission partner stakeholders
Identifying and defining future space capability needs
Identifying key architecture and system level trades
Developing strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architectures
Assessing the performance of current and future architecture concepts
Providing technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process
Developing architecture models to capture the holistic view of the enterprise
Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements
Analyzing and executing technical solutions in support of high value asset indications and warning, resiliency, defense, and cyber protection
Identifying required system analysis for the definition, allocation, assessment, and prediction of system performance requirements and capabilities
Developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) for new capabilities and coordinating them across the affected organizations
Preparing briefings for senior decision makers
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 14 years of relevant experience; Master’s and 12 or PhD and 9 years’ experience
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Proven experience with complex space-based defense and cyber protection systems
Proven experience with large acquisition systems engineering efforts, methods, and processes
Proven experience with technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing
Expert-level proficiency with use of architecting to support senior level enterprise decision making
Proficiency with architecture tools and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, UAF)
Proven experience with the use of architecting across IC
Architecture domain understanding from a holistic enterprise perspective
Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs, impacts, and advancement
Proven experience in development and use of modeling for architecture solutions
Expert-level understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes
Experience with lifecycle readiness from System Requirements Review through system decommissioning
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment
Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums
Strong oral and written communication skills
Desired Qualifications
Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline
Experience with IC customer’s RFC process and the Engineering Review Board process
Experience with indications and warning systems
Experience with RDNG, DOORs requirements database management/repository
Experience in Cameo and SysML applications
Experience with Agile Development, SAFE Agile system development methods
Innovative, strong work ethic, able to think critically, and able to take initiative and work both independently and within a team
Prior US military and/or IC customer experience
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2402978
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