Acquisition Engineer and Program Advisor Security Clearance

Position: Acquisition Engineer and Program Advisor with Security Clearance
Location: Tysons Corner

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space- delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators.

Join us and take your place in space. The National Systems Group serves as the technical advisor to the Intelligence Community and its mission partners involved in the collection and distribution of national and tactical intelligence, including electronics programs, advanced technologies, ground and communications, imagery programs, and systems engineering and launch. The National Intelligence Division within NSG supports the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Chief Financial Officer organization.

The CFO is the IC component responsible for ensuring effective financial management of National Intelligence Program resources and supporting the Director of National Intelligence in formulating and justifying the NIP budget. The CFO office is also champion of acquisition reform and innovation, advising on some of the most complex systems the IC fields with a focus to make acquisition and IC resources a strategic advantage - not a barrier.

The Aerospace team supports CFO leadership decision making by delivering insight on the future intelligence environment with fact-based analysis on acquisition planning, acquisition strategy, cost, schedule and performance management. Aerospace is looking for an Acquisitions Engineer and Program Advisor (Senior Project Engineer - Enterprise Systems Engineering).This position will support Aerospace's impact on the Intelligence Community's financial management, planning, programming, and budgeting process.

This is a full-time position based in the Tyson's area in the National Capital Region, which requires 100% onsite work with the possibility of some assignments at the Aerospace Chantilly Campus. What You'll Be Doing
* Leverage your technical acumen and soft-people skills in working shoulder to shoulder with our senior customers to develop trusted-partner technical advisory relationships.

* Improve acquisition and operational outcomes by developing innovative, fit-to-need program approaches with supporting analytical planning products

* Guide the front-end acquisition and systems engineering functions that span a mission enterprise

* Provide technical leadership in systems engineering to support requirements gathering, concept development, and analysis of alternatives and acquisition engineering-related technical deep dives, trade studies, and assessments

* Perform objective analysis of systems-of-systems, space, ground, launch, or Command and Control (C2) systems

* Design solutions to complex problems by interfacing and collaborating with industry leaders and subject matter experts

* Strengthen programs by performing independent program assessments Work with Aerospace subject matter experts to form and manage teams to deliver strategic analysis and study results for senior customers.

* Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned as needed. What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements for the Senior Project Engineer - Enterprise Systems Engineering:
* Bachelor's degree in applicable STEM areas or other relevant disciplines.

* 10 or more years of applicable experience in engineering, program management or contracting.

* Experience with developing or assessing space systems acquisition strategies, developing or assessing request for proposal documents, and in analyzing or assessing proposals

* Experience with systems engineering activities, to include system requirements and concept of operations development, architectural trade-offs, risk and opportunity identification, readiness review principles, integration and verification planning and execution, quality assurance, configuration…