Systems Engineer
Position: Systems Engineer
Position number: 622
Location: McLean, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI w/Full Scope Polygraph
Description:
Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements. Assist business units in expressing their needs in terms that can be used to generate valid requirements. Help business units identify technology solutions with the potential to improve business processes. Work with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints, and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation. Work with stakeholders to identify best-fit technical solutions for business unit needs. Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies. Provide assistance to project or program teams. Provide conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution. Identify and manage dependencies with other systems and elements of the IT infrastructure. Evaluate industry offering to identify products and technologies with the potential to support the design. Help the project or program team prepare for Project Management Framework. Participate in project or program team activities. Coordinate and manage the resolution of inter-segment problems. Identify potential environmental impacts on systems. Record lessons learned, processes and procedures, and other pertinent quality topics in appropriate formats. Work with project personnel to resolve schedule problems and ensure developed applications and systems are transitioned to customers in a timely manner. Validate system elements and requirements. Survey products and technical infrastructure as part of the system selection process. Assess system designs to validate them against expected technical parameters. Identify hardware and applications needed to complete the development process. Develop and implement test plans for commercial off the shelf (COTS) and custom developed systems. Ensure all products and administrative documentation is completed and maintained in order to ensure continuity and historical reference. Ensure deliverables meet all relevant quality and security standards.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Work with project elements and customers to initiate and facilitate operational contact with potential HUMINT sources via IOC auspices.
• Coordinate with project elements and customers to devise, implement, and maintain creative, yet secure, communications channels with these potential sources.
• With assistance from IOC, derive and help interpret forensic analysis from communications-related metadata and provide said information to customers in a timely, meaningful format; and
• Analyze longer-term trends in communications activity from a technical standpoint.
Mandatory Skills:
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in providing direct support to NCS operational activities.
• Familiarity with IOC’s mission and components.
• Familiarity with NCS communications systems and practices.
• Working knowledge of Lotus Notes and Lotus Notes-based applications
• Working knowledge of web-based communications systems.
• Familiarity with Directorate and Agency policies and procedures.