Agile Systems Engineer

About the Role

Odyssey is seeking an Agile Systems Engineer II with a national space enterprise and ground systems engineering background to support the future ground architecture. The selected candidate will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to support the NRO on-site in Chantilly, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as program support to the government Program Manager (PM) with responsibility for technical knowledge of assigned teams and programs/projects.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations related to the integration of National Systems-based capabilities.
• Engage with the national and tactical communities to collaboratively design, document, validate, and deliver architectures, systems, and innovative ground capabilities in support of the national space architecture.
• Research, gather, and write formal requirements, and translate those requirements into user stories and statements of work.
• Provide schedule, requirements, configuration, and risk management support; and validation, verification, and test support.
• Support Agile-based program management and implementation of a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach.
• Lead IPT meetings and review process boards, including ERBs, CCBs, SRRs, CDRs, PDRs, and PMRs.
• Support the PM in multiple areas, including systems and mission engineering; system integration; program management; acquisition support; analytic support; technical analysis; user requirement management/development; architecture; and customer outreach and support.
• Serve as a technical expert in their assigned area.
• Provide administrative and technical support to the Government leadership team, internal cross coordination, external mission partners, and other DoD/IC customers.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Agile Project Management methodologies.
• Strong systems engineering discipline with experience in traditional functions such as risk management, requirements management, configuration management, schedule management, or testing.
• Experience working space and ground programs from architecture-definition documentation (ADD/CONOPS) through requirements derivation and allocation, performance metric generation and assessment, test case development, and requirement closure tracing.
• Ability to facilitate commonality within the enterprise by defining, architecting, and integrating a multi-INT, multi-sensor, and multi-nodal processing capability.
• Ability to problem solve in a rapidly changing environment and interface with the customer daily.
• Track and respond to office tasking, build and present program briefings, and update project schedules and calendars.
• Background/knowledge of national space and ground systems.
• Familiarity with the IC and NRO enterprise architecture, DOD's space architecture, and translation of Statement of Capabilities and Enterprise Capability Document line items to CONOPs and architectures.
• Experience developing, editing, and updating system architecture and CONOPs documentation as the system mission model matures.
• Knowledge of Electro-optical, RADAR, SIGINT, Communications, Mission Management, and Mission processing systems supporting a space and ground architecture.
• Experience generating and codifying inter-segment and inter-system interface requirements for major space mission ground systems.
• Working knowledge of SAFe Agile or similar agile processes and JIRA and Confluence tools.
• Experience with RDNG/DOORs requirements database management/repository, Rhapsody, SysML applications, Confluence, Jira, or JSMART.
• Understand how system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities are enabled by MBSE across the digital thread (the engineering lifecycle).
• Ability to travel.

Qualifications

• Citizenship: Must be a US citizen.
• Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
• Education/Years of Experience:
• Bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience.
• Master's degree and 1 year of experience.
• Associate degree and 3 years of experience.
• High School/GED Diploma and 6 years of experience.
• Preferred Education: Master’s degree in a BSTEM field.
• Preferred Certifications: Certified in one or more of the following: INCOSE (or DAWIA equivalent), OMG Systems Modeler, Agile, Project Management, MBSE.

Additional Information

• Location: NRO, Chantilly VA.
• Travel: As required by the Customer.
• Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: Onsite.