Special Projects Engineer Job Listing at SPA in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2024-19476)

Description

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance, with CI Poly
• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ years of demonstrated performance related to the responsibilities above
• NRO experience
• Organizational and documentation skills
• Experience working in, collaborating with, and facilitating large and small groups, to include presentation skills
• Ability to excel as a member of a collaborative team through open communication, transparency, and flexibility
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desired Qualifications: 

• JIRA project administration experience
• Portfolio Management/Budget Formulation experience
• Communications engineering experience
• Requirements management experience
• Experience consulting and developing business cases for customer's use in determining way forward in addressing capability planning and investment decisions
• Understanding of how the NRO operates
• Information Technology (IT) Architecture domain experience in Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), or Federal Agency, with previous exposure to DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF), and/or Joint Architecture Reference Model (JARM) artifacts

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will act as an individual contributor point of contact for office initiatives, coordinate with stakeholders, and proactively ensure responses meet deadlines. Will also be expected to develop executive-level communications and correspondence with a high degree of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of written information. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to: 

• Develop white papers, briefings, and action responses. 
• Research and prepare advice, information, and reports on diverse and complex systems engineering, architecture, planning, governance, and policy matters to facilitate informed decision making and planning. 
• Provide issue management and support, responding to emerging issues for the aligned office to ensure effective resolution with minimal risk to the organization. 
• Lead and/or contribute to projects to inform decision making and support the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Contribute to planning and coordinating an organization's strategic and long-range goals and business practices.
• Conduct assessments of new and revised external stakeholder mission/user needs, guiding policies, and directives.
• Conduct capabilities and gap assessments of mission systems IT service needs and current-funded capabilities.
• Support strategy development – Vision, Goals, Objectives, & Performance Reporting.
• May be requested to surge to support tasks and projects across the broader COLOSSUS scope and customer base according to their specific personal expertise and capabilities.