Senior Engineer - Lifecycle Manager - Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.

Norfolk, VA

About the Job

Overview:

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues.

SPAs NATO Allied Command Transformation Group within JOID provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage.

SPA has an immediate need for a Senior Engineer - Lifecycle Manager to provide contracting services to NATO onsite in Norfolk, VA.

Responsibilities:

The Bi-Strategic Commands (Bi-SC) SATCOM Program Management Office (PMO) provides Program Management Capability (PMC) for the Strategic Commands at NATO ACT (Norfolk, VA) and SHAPE (Mons, Belgium). As the Senior Engineer - Lifecycle Manager working in the BiSC SATCOM PMO, the successful candidate will be part of an international team supporting requirements management and execution and performing a variety of tasks under the direction of the Program Manager.

This position has the following 3 principal objectives: to support the technical aspects of the SATCOM project and its coherence with business change models; to support project management and execution, performing a variety of governance tasks under the direction of the PMO Head, including financial analysis, budget management, performance evaluation, project scheduling and planning, requirements definition, scope management, cost control, and risk analysis; and to ensure the Project costs are clear, accurate, fully reported, and transparent.

You will build upon existing Business Change Management structures for the program to efficiently deal with issues/changes that arise by having processes, capabilities, and responsibilities in place to respond. Accurately and comprehensively capture, assess, and provide situational awareness over any changes to the program and its projects. Translate all changes in actions and recommendations including acceptance/rejection of change and advise to the Bi-SCs. Establish, document, and maintain issue management processes within the Bi-SCs. The process shall be based on the PRINCE2 definition of an issue. The change management processes shall include the mechanism to develop an integrated assessment of a change among the relevant SMEs within the Bi-SC and C3 CG substructure authorities. The change management process shall serve as the filter to the change control process.

Capture and log all program issues affecting SATCOM in a project Issue Log. Coordinate staffing relevant to Subject Matter Experts and prepare an integrated assessment for the Change Management Board identifying the likely impacts on other program activities and projects. Conduct user and stakeholder analyses and manage and provide oversight to a program or project. Collect, interpret, and analyze results of integrated cost and schedule and risk models and prepare reports and briefings on analyzed results.

The requirements for project analysis and program governance services are as follows: collect inputs from a variety of sources and prepare and coordinate deliverables; conduct analysis and communicate findings to project team and decision makers; interface with the client or internal program management; work within a multi-stakeholder, technical, and matrixed organizational environment; establish, document, and maintain the following program elements, which are common interest within the AIS program and C3 portfolio, and/or interdependent programs include program planning, technical and operational architecture management, risk management, and schedule management.

You will also develop and sustain a consistent means to track project expenditure against its approved investment costs and reconcile relevant reporting databases to ensure project expenditure is being accurately represented to the stakeholder group.

Qualifications:

Active NATO or National Secret clearance with the appropriate national authority for the duration of the assignment
Masters degree in electronics engineering, computer science, telecommunications, systems engineering, information systems and technology, or an equivalent or closely related discipline
5+ years in project management of complex systems or projects in a military Communication and Information Systems environment, using MSP, PRINCE2, or PMI methodologies and the ITIL service management approach
5+ years in program management and a program management office within a technological area with specific exposure to lifecycle management, lifecycle costing, and change management
4+ years in the requirements and concept of use planning, system engineering design, development and analysis techniques, installation, integration, and verification testing of modern information systems and technology, communication systems, and networks
4+ years assisting in leading teams in project or program management to ensure delivery of high-quality, impactful work products on time
3+ years in effective oral and in written communication, including briefing and in coordination with different international stakeholders
2+ years in engineering and operational analysis of requirements for IT systems and applications, including functional requirement verification, change management, and traceability of requirements based on requirements traceability matrix
2+ years in requirement management, analysis, decomposition, and allocation of requirements, management, and maintenance of the requirement databases
1+ year working in NATO or multi-national program environment (or equivalent)
Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (3333) or demonstrate native English speaker background
Demonstrated working level knowledge with MS Office tools (Outlook, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint)
Demonstrate the availability to travel to any NATO entity within the 31 Nations (valid passport with no travel restrictions to NATO nations)

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