Senior Advanced Systems Engineer

ACARA Solutions and our client in Scottsdale, AZ have a contract-to-direct hire position available

Senior Advanced Systems Engineer

• Perform comprehensive requirements analysis and functional analysis, including development of system use cases and thread-based modeling for messaging systems.
• Conduct requirements management, defining allocations to subsystem elements and performing detailed trade studies for system design.
• Lead system design activities, ensuring the design meets both performance and security specifications while considering operational environment constraints.
• Support systems integration, verification, and validation of software and hardware subsystems, ensuring alignment with design and customer specifications.
• Lead and perform system-level technical planning, including cost and risk analyses, supportability, and effectiveness evaluations for subsystems and system elements.
• Design and implement security measures such as identification, authentication, access control, and auditing within software and messaging systems to ensure compliance with DoD standards and security specifications.
• Provide system accreditation/certification evaluation and test support, ensuring the technical security features are effectively designed and operational.
• Support the development of technical documentation for both new and fielded systems.
• Participate in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to optimize system design, validate system performance, and evaluate design trade-offs.
• Research and analyze data, including vendor products, COTS components, and specifications, to determine the feasibility of proposed system designs and applications.
• Support the generation of technical engineering products, adhering to applicable standards, processes, and tools across the system development life cycle.
• Collaborate with engineering teams from various organizations (e.g., Iridium, SDA, Northrup, York, and Lockheed) to ensure successful program execution.
• Contribute to the completion of complex projects, defining technical processes for system compatibility, and resolving design weaknesses.
• Employ agile and efficient methodologies to quickly decompose system requirements and communicate impacts to minimize unnecessary complexity.

• Active Secret DoD Security Clearance required.
• Proven experience in system design, including the use of Use Case and thread-based modeling techniques for messaging and communication systems.
• Experience with systems integration and performance analysis, ensuring designs meet stringent security and performance standards.
• Strong technical background in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for system evaluation and optimization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working with diverse teams across organizations like Iridium, SDA, Northrup, York, and Lockheed.
• Ability to think creatively, innovate, and make advanced decisions in complex technical environments.

• Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering or Science or Engineering or Mathematics.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in designing, coding, or modeling satellite contact planning systems.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in System design, including Use Case and thread-based modeling for SW messaging systems.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in Interface Control Document (ICD) authoring through the system design through the Integration phase of the program.

• Master's Degree.
• Agile experience.
• Satellite communications knowledge.
• Ground to Satellite communication knowledge.
• Ground operations experience.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• People with agile program experience.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• Active Secret DoD Clearance
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person,' as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.