Ground MBSE and Modeling & Simulation Tech Specialist - Arcfield

Overview

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of development, engineering, analysis and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced subject matter expert, to help us evaluate and guide system architectures leveraging Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) principals, and modeling & simulation analysis and expertise. This is an opportunity to build your experience using the latest open source tools, trends, and techniques on technical issues supporting the mission of our Intelligence Community Customer.

• Our Chief Architect team is responsible for leading and coordinating ground enterprise lifecycle systems engineering activities including requirements, CONOPS, and architecture development in the remote sensing domain for current and future systems.
• The individual will provide Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) support implementing MBSE principles for system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities beginning with the conceptual design, continuing throughout the development and life-cycle of the project. This includes helping to champion the transition and implementation of MBSE processes and standards across a large ground enterprise organization and evaluating tools for inclusion in the MBSE framework.  
• The individual will facilitate Integrated Product Teams (IPT’s), Engineering working groups and brown bags that will promote, review and assess the maturity of engineering Artifacts, CONOPS, Interfaces, and Architecture products within the MBSE framework. 
• This position also provides project management overseeing and assessing a multi-organizational software development effort for the organization’s modeling and simulation project leveraging ModSim. This requires collaboration with other engineers to develop end-to-end models of complex systems to include architecture and behavior of the system using Systems Modeling Language (SysML). 
• The candidate will provide subject matter expertise and MBSE best practices to teams coordinating conops and architecture products, establishing and translating requirements into features, assessing system and segment schedule and risks, leading readiness and release planning events in support of system and acquisition-level ground milestones, and supporting agile test and devops verification strategies and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded GEOINT or SIGINT mission capabilities.
• The selected candidate will have the aptitude to assess MBSE and SE processes and create efficiencies continuously, and may lead projects for systems team work, have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices.
• The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life-cycle.
• Candidate will interact with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and facilitate risk and action closure with Acquisition Offices and users, and support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation briefings.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Must Possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with Poly

• Experience:  BS w/ 10-12 years, MS w/ 8-10 years, or PhD w/ 5-7 years

• More than 8 years’ experience with space/ground aerospace systems engineering/architecting
• BS in engineering, physics, or related technical degree
• Modeling and simulation experience within IC domain
• Detailed knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture
• Expertise in mission technical capabilities, architecture and system performance analysis and assessment
• Experience in supporting Requirements Engineering, CONOPs development, and system integration within MBSE construct to accommodate End to End Systems Engineering
• Knowledge of, and experience defining and executing, MBSE standards and practices
• Hands-on experience of developing system models in SysML with a recognized MBSE tool, preferably CAMEO.
• Ability to translate DoDAF artifacts into MBSE artifacts
• Adaptability to define and sustain MBSE principles, processes and standards within an agile development framework
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Project management experience for multi-organizational development
• Experience identifying user needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with direct IC customer, technical familiarity with mission processing or mission control of systems, including sensor knowledge.
• Ability to work for direct IC customer and familiarity with that customer’s processes and organization.
• Previous experience supporting agile development in the customer’s environment

EEO Statement

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.