Ground Enterprise Resilience Tech Specialist

Arcfield Overview: Arcfield was purpose-built to relentlessly protect the nation and its allies from today’s national security threats. We have nearly 70 years of proven expertise and excel in space superiority, hypersonic defense and nuclear deterrence, digital transformation, and surface and undersea warfare domains. Our solution areas include space mission engineering, atmospheric science, digital engineering, mission assurance, and advances in modeling and simulation that together with our enterprise-wide adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, lead to better systems and timely, reliable decision-making. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 18 North American offices, Arcfield employs 2,200 engineers, scientists, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who challenge the status quo to deliver an efficient technological advantage to our national security and defense partners. Responsibilities:

Arcfield is seeking a Ground Enterprise Resilience Tech Specialist to support the Chief Architect (CA) Office and serve as a trusted technical advisor to government and contractor stakeholders, leading enterprise and mission resilience assessments and initiatives, multi-agency and cross-organization roadmap development, capability integration, and coordination that enable resilient activity-based intelligence through automated and accelerated mission delivery to our Intelligence Community customers.

 

Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise for IC customer senior leadership and their DoW counterparts regarding resilient GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT architecture requirements and planned mission capabilities.
• Coordinate and support ground requirements, architectures and capability integration in the remote sensing domain including resilient enterprise and system requirements for current and future operational systems.
• Conduct assessments of critical joint IC and DoW warfighter capabilities, and identify gaps and shortfalls supporting decisions to validate and prioritize joint resiliency requirements with mission partners for future acquisitions.
• Support development of ground enterprise and mission resilience strategy across the various ground offices.
• Help customer acquisitions identify dependencies, risks and gaps to solution resilient capability roadmaps in alignment with capability needs.
• Provide justifications for funding needs, assess and report on resilient initiatives, schedules and readiness events against spending plans.
• Generate and present budget and technical briefings, respond to Congressionally Directed Actions, and coordinate with numerous IC and DoW senior customers.
• Support demonstrations and exercises in support of delivered system capabilities and mission closure.
• Lead technical consultations, IC multi-agency and cross-organization coordination meetings, and support senior customer recommendation briefings. 

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph; must be able to maintain the required clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, plus 10–12 years of relevant professional experience; master’s degree plus 8–10 years; or PhD plus 5–7 years.
• Resilience assessment, integration and closure experience within overall IC and DoW domain.
• Detailed knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture.
• Expertise in mission technical capabilities and system performance analysis and assessment including failover and recovery metrics and sub-system allocations and margins.
• Experience identifying enterprise resilience needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives.
• Experience generating and providing senior level briefings, point papers, strategic communications and action responses.
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority.

Desired:

• Knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT, and multi-INT domains) and technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing of one or more GEOINT and/or SIGINT systems, including sensor knowledge.
• Knowledge of, and experience executing, SAFe Agile methodology.
• Prior experience supporting a Chief Architect office, senior government technical leadership organization, SETA, SEIT, or intelligence-community acquisition program.
• Experience with cloud-based mission architectures, data platforms, AI/ML operations, model assurance, or secure deployment of AI-enabled capabilities.
• Experience supporting space, intelligence, cyber, GEOINT, SIGINT, OPIR, radar, electro-optical, or other high-consequence national-security missions.

Equal Pay Act: This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections. Min: $135,035.83 Max: $234,801.11 EEO Statement:

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.