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Description:
Markon is seeking Senior-level Systems Integrators to support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.
Responsibilities:
- Assists with leading and performing systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.
- Assists with leading and overseeing a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.
- Assists with overseeing the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.
- Guides the work of Mid- and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.
- Supports the government with integration across the NGA, NSG, ASG, USG, commercial and foreign partner enterprise ensuring alignment of architecture, requirements and as-built capabilities, services and features are in compliance with all license and sharing agreements.
- Ensures integration across program, segment and project plans, technical roadmaps, and schedules to achieve the delivery of capabilities and effectivities.
- Maintains technical roadmaps for Sensor Programs to include scope and completion dates. Re-baseline roadmaps in response to changing agency guidance and strategies.
- Ensures integration of solution engineering across time horizons from year of budget execution through the Future Year Defense Program (FYDP and beyond).
- Supports government oversight of program development and coordination of CONOPS, technology roadmap planning, architecture development, cross segment / cross Agency interface definitions, requirements definition, decomposition, allocation to and development by programs, segments, and projects, and enterprise-level verification and validation, transition to operations and retirement activities.
- Supports integration across the planned, in-work, and delivered services related to sensor integration programs, ensuring that all the “parts” connect, operate together successfully, and are consistent with enterprise plans and strategies.
- Supports integration activities and interactions with the IC, external agencies and the DoD to include sensor and platform acquisition, related ground architecture development efforts, and sensor acquired ground components necessary for consumers of the resultant data and information, and military organizations.
- Supports end to end system integration and acceptance necessary for Major System Acquisitions (MSAs).
- Supports program, segment, and project level technical reviews, preform technology readiness assessments, and attend Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) to assess enterprise integration challenges.
- Reviews system integration documentation for accuracy, completeness, and harmony with enterprise integration efforts. Coordinate needed changes with appropriate program, segment, and project offices.
- Supports the transition of new services and capabilities to operations and identify gaps in toolsets and automation used to test and deliver those services and capabilities. Identify gaps or new needs for automated test capabilities to address incoming capabilities.
- Provides developers guidance and recommendation on service virtualization, and service APIs for enterprise systems.
- In collaboration with Enterprise Risk Management, performed on the NGA Foundational Engineering Contract, identifies enterprise-level, and Joint Mission Partner, risks, opportunities and issues associated with enterprise integration and assist in risk mitigation.
- Supports agile, end-to-end system, operational, integration, and regression testing and analysis on NGA, NSG, and ASG mission production systems, GEOINT services in support of Sensor Programs.
- Supports early integration testing of multiple interactive systems to demonstrate stability and readiness for operational exposure in support of Sensor Programs.
- Performs requirements decomposition to identify and develop test cases and objectives.
- Conducts system workflow and interoperability analysis to identify test case insertion points.
- Conducts assessment of risk to the enterprise, architecture, legacy capabilities, and end user to determine the risk priority and scope of planned testing.
- Coordinates Sensor Program test participation with all NGA stakeholders, mission partners, other NSG/ASG programs, segments, and projects, de-conflicting schedule and resource conflicts.
- Tracks Discrepancy Reports (DRs) and developer and program office Technical Investigation (TI) updates to determine need for re-test.
- Performs analysis of Sensor Program test case results and analyze output from artifacts against risk to the NSG/ASG to develop a recommendation for operational readiness. Coordinate recommendation with Sensor program, Mission Partner, segment, and project office to determine the appropriateness of deployment with liens, delayed deployment, or partial operationalization of capabilities.
- Supports readiness of programs, segments, and projects at various milestones through participation in required readiness reviews and assist government POCs with recommendations to ensure success.
- Supports the NTO to develop Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) criteria and system acceptance tests for Sensor Programs.
- Coordinates with NGA Foundational Engineering (NFE) contractor to ensure the Sensor program test campaigns are in accordance with the NSG/ASG Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP).
- Facilitates and oversee self-service and collaborative end-to-end system testing and analysis inclusive of DevOps and cloud hosted developed applications, tools, and services.
