About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities
The Systems Engineer Manager has a dual role focused on providing systems engineering support to the Government Customer program office and leading a team of systems engineers and support staff.
As a Systems Engineer, the Systems Engineering Manager is responsible for but not limited to:
- Supporting the clients mission goals and strategic objectives.
- Support the design, development, and evaluation of end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their full development and operational life cycle.
- Provide essential support to Project Management for risk identification and mitigation and keeping the project on schedule and within budget.
- Provide support for business development activities to help shape new requirements.
- Translation of high-level product development strategies into system requirements/specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
- Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
As a manager, the Systems Engineering Senior Manager is responsible for but not limited to:
- Supervise, manage, support, and evaluate personnel.
- Provide mentorship to junior engineers and staff supporting their career growth and development
- Assist the Program Manager with staffing and recruiting for the overall program.
- Serve as the Program Manager’s backup for staff meetings, contracts, and finance actions.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Support the writing and management of system requirements based on the customer’s description and Concept of Operations (CONOP).
- Evaluate and derive test plans and procedures that accurately trace to system requirements for end-to-end system testability.
- Ensures that system requirements are traceable to client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
- Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
- Develop and document test strategies for the evaluation of systems.
- Ensure requirements are verifiable and can be accurately traced to test procedures.
- Provide support to client programmatic and technical forums.
- Assist in the review and assessment of contractor deliverables and provide an independent assessment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- An active TS/SCI w/Polygraph
- 10 years of relevant experience
- Experience in space systems to include satellites, launch vehicles, and ground systems
- Experience in acquisition process to include developing acquisition plans, RFPs, and SOWs.
- Experience in system development, integration, and test of projects including specialized, relevant technical experience in the general areas of systems integration, system development and verification, hardware and software development.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office products, such as Word, Excel, Power-Point, and MS Project.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team in pursuit organizational goals.
- Demonstrated expertise in writing, and ability to brief complex technical information to non-experts.
- Experience with preparation and maintenance of project documentation, cost and master schedules.
- Experience working in customer environment
Desired Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience managing a diverse and high-performance technical team
- Deep historical and institutional knowledge of the customer mission and programs
Target Salary Range
$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range
EEO
An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.
