Senior Communications Project Engineer

Company:

SAIC Location:

Chantilly, VA Career Level:

Mid-Senior Level Industries:

Technology, Software, IT, Electronics Description Description SAIC is seeking a Senior Communications Project Engineer. In this role, you will play a vital role in implementing new communications technologies in an innovative future space architecture by leading a team of technical subject matter experts defining enterprise interoperability standards for space-space and space-ground communications and developing and executing a communications technology development strategy. This position is located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Job Duties include:

Produce and execute project plans. Lead weekly team status update meetings with customers. Facilitate technical interchange meetings between customer subject matter experts and developers; capture, assign, and track to completion action items; capture and publish meeting notes. Curate and maintain project information using enterprise collaboration and project management tools. Curate and adjudicate comments to draft interoperability standards documents. Ensure configuration management and version control of draft interoperability standards documents. Prepare incremental drafts of standards documents for customer review. Coordinate efforts of representatives from multiple customer offices to accomplish project objectives. Coordinate engagements with potential external users of customer's data transport network. Qualifications Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph. Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering. 14+ years of relevant professional experience. Experience with communications system development and test. Experience with space system electronics technology development. Experience managing engineering development projects. Proficient with modern technical project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA). Ability to work collaboratively with personnel from multiple functions and at all levels of the customer organization to deliver results; strong networking, interpersonal, customer service skills, team building and problem-solving skills with an ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment. Excellent organizational skills, ability to plan, track and maintain due dates for multiple taskers and products central to project execution. Experience in DoD IC acquisition and program management processes.