Systems Engineering Director jobs in Madison, AL

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Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group is seeking a qualified Systems Analyst to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) enterprise.

Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical assistance to the Director of M&S Enterprise Engineering (M&S EE), who is responsible for chairing design reviews, establishing architecture and design standards, managing Enterprise Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), and synchronizing M&S and digital engineering transformation across the Agency.
• This position performs engineering duties to elicit stakeholder requirements and mission needs, define functional requirements, draft, and review technical documents, support technical reviews, and participate in agency tiger teams and working groups.

Required Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree and 7 years of relevant experience
• Active Secret clearance
• Ability to think critically (i.e., research, understand, analyze, synthesize, and critique), creating solutions to new and one-of-a-kind threat challenges and issues as they arise.
• Ability to propose technical project plans and solutions which align with customer strategic goals.
• Experience writing, presenting, and coordinating product and engineering plans, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and produce and present clear, concise, well-organized, and audience-relevant presentations and documents.
• Skilled in using Microsoft Office products to communicate technical and programmatic information.
• Demonstrated understanding of systems analysis across the system lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, test, and deployment.
• Experience gathering and specifying system requirements through internal and external stakeholder coordination and collaboration.
• Experience performing hardware and software requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, management, verification, and validation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Understanding of MDA and its threat processes and organizational elements, especially as used in M&S venues.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes and tools, such as IBM Harmony and IBM Rhapsody.
• Exposure to analysis, test, and systems engineering of M&S for one or more elements of the MDS (i.e., Patriot, THAAD, GMD, Sensors, or C2).
• Understanding of digital engineering and the DoD and MDA initiatives to transform from traditional to digital systems engineering.
• Demonstrated understanding of threat data generation for simulation and MDA threat specifications.