Ground and Exploitation Development Lead

Talent Orchard has been retained by SAIC, to assist them in their search for qualified candidates.  The position that SAIC is hiring for is for a Ground and Exploitation Development Lead for an opportunity in El Segundo, California. This opportunity will be contingent upon award.

Job Specific Responsibilities:

• Oversight and management of systems engineering activities
• Conduct SE based on sound engineering practices
• Elicit and refine customer requirements
• Ensure designs fully support requirements and are consistent with customer budget, schedule, risk profile and organizational/system constraints
• Performs Systems Engineering activities including: concept of operations formulation, requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecting, system analysis and design, interface and data architectures, validation and verification, systems integration, system & operational performance analysis, Lifecycle cost analysis & estimation, decision analysis and physical configuration analysis (PCA) .
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software or engineering specifications.
• Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts
• Contribute to development of new principles and concepts
• Participate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• Recommend/make decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors (STEM) and fourteen (14) years or more of related experience or
• Masters and twelve (12) years or more of related experience or
• PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more of related experience
• Education and Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or closely-related discipline required (BS STEM); Master’s degree is desired
• INCOSE Certification (Preferred)

Technical Specialties

• Apply advanced technical principles, 
• Model Based Systems Engineering
• Cybersecurity
• Requirements development/validation
• Concept of operations formulation
• Analysis and engineering
• System architecting
• Hardware and software
• System analysis and design
• Interface and data architectures
• Systems integration
• Test and evaluation
• Prototype development Technologies
• OPIR
• Environmental Monitoring
• Space and Ground systems
• Cloud architectures

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