Agile Systems Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2612591)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Agile Systems Engineer to join the Landmark AOS program, SAIC's Prime SETA program supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). GED leads the acquisition, integration, and modernization of mission‑critical ground systems across the full system lifecycle. 

In this role, you will provide enterprise‑level systems engineering expertise across cloud‑based software development activities, ensuring architectures, requirements, schedules, and technical decisions align with mission needs. You will help shape system capabilities, identify risks and opportunities, and guide engineering rigor across a diverse portfolio of Significant Ground Capabilities (SGCs).

Key Responsibilities to include:

• Develop and deliver authoritative systems engineering products, including integration plans, verification and validation approaches, test processes, requirements traceability, and enterprise schedules/roadmaps.
• Execute enterprise‑level systems engineering activities, supporting readiness events, stakeholder coordination, and senior‑leadership decision forums.
• Translate stakeholder needs into actionable technical and operational requirements, and coordinate requirements management activities with acquisition offices.
• Analyze system and functional requirements, decompose documentation, and maintain system architectures that accurately capture mission needs and identify risks.
• Guide risk, issue, and opportunity management, ensuring impacts to enterprise‑level decisions are clearly communicated and understood.
• Support development of cross‑program systems engineering standards within the Enterprise Management Framework.
• Integrate across mission teams, providing systems engineering insight to mission integrators, capability managers, and cross‑functional partners.
• Review and evaluate key systems engineering artifacts, offering objective technical assessments and recommendations.
• Prepare and deliver technical assessments, briefings, and documentation for senior leadership and major enterprise reviews.
• Coordinate and support execution of major systems engineering reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise processes and mission priorities.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree. 
• Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph. 
• Experience supporting a Systems Engineering organization, with strong understanding of SE and acquisition processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk and opportunity management, requirements management, configuration management, and cross‑program integration.
• Experience supporting Agile software development (Scrum, SAFe).
• Strong background in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V).
• Working knowledge of SE documentation, including CONOPS, SRDs, ICDs, and verification/test artifacts.
• Experience with process improvement and metrics development.
• Prior support to the Intelligence Community or DoD.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across government, SETA, FFRDC, and contractor teams in a high‑tempo environment.