SME Systems Engineer

Overall Assignment Description:
Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-

discipline approach to 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 to ensure timely and accurate

GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Assists the Government in directing 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.

• 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.
• Assist 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.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across

organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor

Systems Engineers.

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Required Skills

Skills and Experience:
Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific

field such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering

Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information

Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• 18+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas

including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or

systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented

Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

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Desired Skills

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a 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 Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
• Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:

o ACSM

o ASCE

o ASPRS

o OGC

o SAREM

o USGIF

• Extensive 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

Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information

sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

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About Avail Solutions LLC

Avail Solutions is a world-class technical consulting and solutions provider located in Northern Virginia. Our highly skilled employees deliver solutions that enable our customers to maintain and strengthen the National Security of the United States. We specialize in cloud-based technologies, data science and analytics, systems engineering, and enterprise architecture.