Senior Systems Engineer

Overview: Stellar Solutions is seeking a Mid-Level to Senior Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor (SETA) services in Colorado Springs, CO.
Top Secret/SCI clearance and a CI or Full Scope Polygraph within past 10 years is a prerequisite to apply for this position.
Role/Responsibilities/Qualifications: As a System Engineer, you will: Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technologies to deliver mission capabilities Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level systems architectures to develop system requirements Perform general program management functions daily, to include milestone/status tracking, inter-organizational coordination, prepare and provide briefings, review/update classified documentation Conduct technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities, coordinate recommendations with government stakeholders, and support program status reviews Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues and opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors and customer forums Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to government leadership Qualifications Required Education and Experience: US Citizenship Active TS/SCI clearance with adjudicated polygraph within last 10 years Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field and nine (9) years or more experience, or Master Degree in STEM field and seven (7) or more years experience.
While STEM degree is contractually required, some flexibility/waiver is possible depending upon qualifications.
Knowledge of overall space and ground architecture including ground terminal equipment (satellite antennas), telemetry/tracking/control, and/or mission processing functions Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development Experience with mission readiness process, familiar with control gates and associated documentation, entry/exit criteria Familiar with mission operations environment - ops tempo, launch and initialization, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, systems development, validation and verification Experience developing and providing oversight Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and detailed program schedules Self-starter, proactively addresses custome requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics Polished communitor (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders - consensus builder Proficient with MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project Desired Qualifications: Project management tools to include JIRA and Confluence The typical pay range for this position is USD $120,000 - $165,000 per year, total package.
Individual pay is determined by many factors including work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus, retirement plan and other benefits (all included as part of package).