Strategic Systems Engineer developing DoDAF/UAF artifacts and architectural views for a DoD intelligence customer, translating operational needs into rigorous engineering products that resonate with senior military and civilian leadership.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain DoDAF and UAF engineering artifacts and architectural views that communicate system structure, behavior, and context to senior leaders and technical staffs
- Decompose complex operational problems into technical requirements and identify competing technical solutions with rigorous tradeoff analysis
- Conduct requirements discovery through probing questions and stakeholder synthesis across military Services and Combatant Commands
- Support capability-based planning and analysis of alternatives throughout the defense acquisition lifecycle
- Translate operational needs and constraints into credible, defensible engineering artifacts for senior leadership review
Mission
Supporting a joint intelligence capability program within the Department of Defense. The role bridges operational requirements from multiple Services and Combatant Commands with technical architecture and defense acquisition lifecycle processes.
Required skills
- DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework)
- UAF (Unified Architecture Framework)
- Systems Engineering
- Architecture Design and Documentation
- Requirements Decomposition and Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Tradeoff Analysis
- Defense Acquisition Lifecycle Knowledge