Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical assistance to the Director of M&S Enterprise Engineering (M&S EE), who is responsible for chairing design reviews, establishing architecture and design standards, managing Enterprise Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), and synchronizing M&S across the Agency
• This position performs engineering duties to elicit stakeholder requirements and mission needs, define functional requirements, draft, and review technical documents, serve as executive agent for technical reviews, facilitate M&S and digital engineering transformation initiatives, and represent M&S EE in agency tiger teams and working groups

• Demonstrated understanding of systems engineering, software engineering, hardware/software integration, and data engineering disciplines across the system lifecycle (i.e. requirements, design, development, test, and deployment)
• Experience with analysis, test, and systems engineering for one or more elements (subsystems) of the MDS (i.e. Aegis, THAAD, Patriot, IBCS, GMD, Sensors, or C2)
• Experience gathering and specifying system requirements through internal and external stakeholder coordination and collaboration
• Exposure to requirements, architecture, and descriptive modeling tools such as IBM tools suites (i.e., DOORS NG, Rhapsody, Engineering Workflow Management)
• Ability to think critically (i.e. research, understand, analyze, synthesize, and critique), creating solutions to new and one-of-a-kind program challenges and issues as they arise
• Ability to lead and create a positive, collaborative working relationship with representatives and stakeholders from functionally and geographically dispersed internal and external organizations
• Clearly communicates complex ideas; produces and presents clear, well-organized presentations, in relevant terms for audiences at all levels
• Skilled in using Microsoft Office products to communicate technical and programmatic information

Preferred Qualifications:

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  Experience with requirements, design, development, integration, validation, test, or operations of M&S used in test and evaluation or performance assessment of complex weapons systems or system of systems
• Experience working in or with the Missile Defense Agency and understanding of its organizational structure and mission
• Experience performing trade studies, technology refresh and insertion planning and maturity assessments
• Experience writing, presenting, and coordinating product and engineering plans, policies, and procedures