Arcfield Looking for Space Communications Systems Architect at Chantilly, VA  Full Time

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Applies technical knowledge to assist clients in the design and development of solutions for complex technical engineering and applications problems, network challenges, or system administration issues.
• Establishes the basic structure of the system, defines essential core design features and elements that provide the framework.
• Incorporates engineering strategies for introducing new technology into the customer’s infrastructure related to its business processes of collection, analysis, production, and dissemination.
• Performs cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware function; making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components.
• Applies knowledge of enterprise IT or engineering needs to design improved processes, generate valid requirements, and ensures that these are consistent with the customer’s enterprise technical architecture.
• The successful candidate will assist the customer in defining systems architecture strategy, provide leadership, oversight and technical guidance to the systems integration program, and perform cross-discipline activities require to support enterprise architecture decision-making and assessment of alternatives in relation to the customer’s enterprise alignment initiatives.

The Selected Candidate Can Expect To:

• Lead or participate in the development of system architectures to evolve mission services.
• Identify, document and recommend potential architectural and portfolio options through Analysis of Alternatives (AoA).
• As part of the AoA process, be prepared to provide risk analysis, cost analysis, capability and technology gap assessments, and vendor assessments.
• Assess new technologies for fit-for-use by mission and services.
• Translate customer needs into program requirements.
• Build strategies and roadmaps in coordination with customer leadership.
• Proactively engage customer leadership to provide value-added influence to innovative ways to address new initiatives and hard problems.
• Capture and maintain architecture configurations for strategic initiatives via standard tools and product types as defined by stakeholders.
• Develop and present plans and status to customer and community stakeholders.
• Lead the resolution of complex technical issues and risk management efforts, providing a sound systems engineering approach and an enterprise perspective.
• Actively participate in readiness events to protect the system integrity of mission initiatives.

Required Skills:

• 10 to 12 years’ experience with B.S. in engineering or related technical field or 8 to 10 years’ experience with M.S. in engineering or related technical field or 5-7 years’ experience with Ph.D. in engineering or related technical field.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Working knowledge of how to create and maintain architecture products using DoDAF
• Working understanding of the end-to-end Systems Engineering Process (INCOSE Vee)
• Background in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Ability to achieve Level 1 Certification in SysML within 6 months of hiring date
• Experience using a MBSE tool (Cameo or Rhapsody)

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of how to create and maintain architecture products using OMG’s Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Level 2 Certification in SysML
• Experience with Digital Engineering tools (e.g., Model Center, Cameo)

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