Description
Description
SAIC is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on a new SAIC primed program located in Chantilly, VA. The successful applicant must exhibit flexibility in task execution, provide technical expertise, deliver continuity of effort, and demonstrate value-added judgment to advise senior customer leadership on program activities. The successful candidate will produce recommendations and deliverables in a thorough, practicable, and consistent manner congruent with the organization's objectives, and facilitate customer focused IT infrastructure provisioning.
Job duties to include:
• Support the Technical Director, COTRs, and Senior government decision makers by refining requirements, designs, and test capabilities to meet mission needs.
• Provide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support.
• Assist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the 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 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.
• Develop and host DE training events and demonstrations to educate customers, inform decision makers, and highlight best practice use cases for when and how to apply standards.
Qualifications
• TS/SCI with Poly.
• Bachelors and nine years or more experience; Masters and seven years or more experience;
• 8+ years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation.
• Demonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment
• Expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including methodologies, strategies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, SysML, UAF)
• Experience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline
• Demonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues
• Experience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.
• Experience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.
• Knowledge to plan, schedule, conduct and facilitate projects and studies to evaluate and recommend ways to improve the productivity of operations in a program or support setting.
• Knowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.
• Experience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.
• Preferred Credentials: OMG Certified Systems Modeling Language Professional (OCSMP) Level 2 - Model Builder Fundamental (MBF) certification or higher.
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