Models Based Systems Engineer

SAIC · Chantilly

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.

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