**Description** **DESCRIPTION:** SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services in a dynamic, multi-organizational environment in **Colorado Springs, CO** . Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with current polygraph is required to start and must be maintained. Target compensation is $145,000.00 to $150,000.00. The successful candidate will **:** + Understand and perform general program management functions, to include milestone/status tracking, inter-organizational coordination and liaison, prepare and provide briefings/presentations, and review/edit/update classified documentation. + Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technologies to deliver mission capabilities. + Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements. + Conduct technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities; coordinate recommendations with government stakeholders and supports program status reviews. + Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies. + Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums. + Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations. + Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership. **Qualifications** **QUALIFICATIONS** **Required:** + U.S. Citizenship. + Active TS/SCI clearance with current adjudicated polygraph. + Contract requirement: Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience. + Knowledge of overall space and ground architecture including ground terminal equipment (satellite antennas), telemetry/tracking/control, and/or mission processing functions. + Program lifecycle experience from concept development through decommission.Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development. + Experience with mission readiness process, familiar with control gates and associated documentation, entry/exit criteria. + Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems development; validation and verification. + Experience developing and providing oversight of Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) and detailed program schedules. + Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics. + Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment. + Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder. + Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project. **Desired:** + Familiar with mission operations environment – ops tempo, launch and initialization, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations. + Familiar with satellite system sustainment. + Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence. + Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) experience a plus. Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. REQNUMBER: 2506928 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability