Senior Systems Engineer

McBride Consulting has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer providing support to the Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management Division (C3BM).

The candidate will provide Systems Engineering assistance that applies a broad theoretical and practical knowledge of system engineering to the acquisition process. The candidate will also provide engineering support in the design, operation, and sustainment of systems and components that cover tasks throughout the acquisition life cycle (requirements analysis through system disposal).

This is a full-time position that can be worked out of Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA

Responsibilities:

Duties include, but not limited to: 

Candidate selected will be aligned to 1 of 5 Mission Integration Teams (MITs) duty stationed at Hanscom AFB, MA. The five mission areas are Air, Maritime, Land, homeland Air Defense, and Cross Cutting.

Position duties include but are not limited to: 

• Serves a Mission Integration Team (MIT) system of systems architecture design and development engineers. 
  
• Reviews current Department of Defense (DoD) architecture models and designs a migration path to a future state that enables seamless sensor-to-shooter connectivity. 
  
• Drives interconnectivity between represented PEOs and weapon systems. 
  
• Captures as is and to be states driven by MIT stressing engagement scenarios. 
  
• Engages the joint and coalition community to design and evaluate an architecture that will connect any sensor to any shooter irrespective of service or coalition.
  
• Identifies, assesses, and matures innovative and affordable concepts meeting current and future AF needs through multi-domain expertise, analytics, and modeling, simulation & analysis tool development. 
  

Qualifications:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Minimum Required Qualifications

Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain an active Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Education: BA/BS Degree

Years of Experience: 10 years of directly related experience with 5 years of experience in a DoD setting

• Familiar with cloud-based systems, including management and projection of cost and performance
  
• Familiar with agile methods and CI/CD, DevSecOps and DevOps principals
  
• Comprehensive knowledge of principles, policies and practices of systems acquisition and program management, as defined in DoDI 5000.02 and 5000.75, as well as knowledge of roles and relationships within the DoD and the Air Force
  
• Possess knowledge of qualitative and quantitative techniques for gathering, analyzing, and measuring the effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of acquisition programs
  
• Possesses the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, providing quality acquisition and program documentation including but not limited to briefings, documents,and plans
  

Additional Information

Location: Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA

Travel: 10%

Onsite

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