Models Based Systems Engineer

Description SAIC is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer y with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on SAIC’s Prime Program, Landmark AOS located in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program that supports the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), which is responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle. This will be a position supporting our customer’s Ground Enterprise Directorate in the Chief Architect office. As the Modeling and Simulation Engineer you will support the Chief Architect’s Systems and Digital Engineering Teams across the Chief Architect’s Office. You will also provide oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architecture. Job duties to include: + Provide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support including: + Assist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the M&S strategy and future evolution and investment. Develop briefings and background papers to identify potential impacts and proposed courses of action. + Support executing oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures + Assist and support efforts to identify and prioritize Directorate gaps and needs. These efforts will provide information necessary to determine various aspects such as emerging/existing resource/availability/capability gaps, inefficiencies, and ineffectiveness of current efforts within Modeling and Simulation development. + Assist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of DE policies, guidance, rules, and standards. + Assist with facilitating the integration of best practices via access to M&S related knowledge and resources. Develop processes to identify, define, assess current/ emerging standards.

Nominate, review, and provide recommendations on updates to the standards. + Support government lead with executing tasks such as development/ curation of DE standards profile, updates to DE standards policies + Develop and host DE training events and demonstrations to highlight best practices and use cases for when and how to apply standards + Collaboration and Agile Practices: + Work closely with System Program Office Thread Leads and program managers to ensure alignment and efficiency in acquisition strategy execution. + Participate in Agile development teams and provide technical direction for the implementation of engineering tools, processes, and digital solutions. + Provide feedback on GED policies related to Agile, Digital Engineering, and DevSecOps based on observations of implementation challenges to drive improvements in suitability of governance and increase consistency of adoption across GED. 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 with CI Poly + 5+ years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation + Demonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment + Experience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline + Experience working with DoDAF and/or other MBSE architecture guidelines + Demonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues + Experience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain. + Demonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives. + Experience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level. + Knowledge to plan, schedule, conduct and facilitate projects and studies to evaluate and recommend ways to improve the productivity of operations in a program or support setting. + Knowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity. + Experience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.

REQNUMBER: 2615662 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation’s most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion.