Systems Engineer / Architect

Are you ready to lead transformative change at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)? NGA’s Enterprise Engineering and Architecture Group is seeking a mission-driven Systems Engineer to partner with the Financial Management (FM) Organization in a high-impact role shaping the future of government financial systems.

 

This is your opportunity to bring engineering excellence, digital innovation, and strategic thinking to one of the most critical missions in national security. Join a team focused on elevating FM’s digital capabilities, optimizing workflows, and modernizing systems through world-class systems engineering practices.

What You’ll Do

As a key member of our Systems Engineering team, you will:

• Capture the As-Is: Document current FM architecture, requirements, and data/information flows.

• Design the To-Be: Provide engineering thought leadership to define and build the future-state FM architecture.

• Drive Integration: Help integrate FM into NGA’s Digital Engineering (DE) Environment as an Authoritative Source of Truth (ASoT) data provider, consumer, and analytic enabler.

• Modernize Processes: Lead business process re-engineering activities, modeling end-to-end workflows and identifying improvement opportunities.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Partnering with enterprise engineering teams (Architecture, Requirements, Configuration Management, and more) to introduce systems engineering rigor, tools, and governance to FM.

• Capturing and baselining FM requirements (e.g., data, dashboards, reports) and architecture (systems, interfaces).

• Leading enterprise coordination for Requests for Change (RFCs) to formalize FM baselines.

• Supporting the design and documentation of the To-Be FM architecture and roadmap, including authoring Solution Epics and developing modernization schedules.

• Creating FM use cases and mission threads to drive future-state architecture.

• Supporting FM risk management and mitigation planning related to architecture transformation.

• Collaborating with FM teams and Data SMEs to enhance FM data architecture, data flows, and ontology development.

• Ensuring alignment with NGA’s Chief Data Office and enterprise data governance practices.

• Participating in Agile Digital Engineering PI Planning and technical exchange meetings (TEMs).

What You’ll Gain

• Skill Development: Expand your expertise in systems engineering, architecture, business process modeling, and financial data ontology.

• Mission Impact: Play a direct role in shaping the digital future of government financial systems.

• Exposure: Work closely with senior engineers, architects, financial managers, and data strategists across the NGA enterprise.

• Tools of the Trade: Gain hands-on experience with best-in-class tools like Jira, Confluence, Cameo, DOORS Next Gen, Baseline Management System, and ServiceNow.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

Education & Clearance:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM field
  (OR)

  • 6+ years of relevant technical experience (e.g., as an Integration Engineer) may be considered in lieu of a degree

• Active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph

Technical Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in database management or Big Data analysis in a government or industry setting

• Proficiency in developing architecture artifacts using DoDAF standards (e.g., Service and System views)

• Experience using Cameo Systems Modeler for architecture development

Preferred Qualifications (Desired):

Systems Engineering & Technical Process Knowledge:

• Experience with Systems Engineering processes such as:

  • Requirements development

  • Use Case creation

  • CONOPS and/or Epic development

  • Risk, Configuration, and Schedule Management

• Exposure to or knowledge of Digital Engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles

• Experience with Business Process Engineering

Tools & Methodologies:

• Familiarity with the NGA RFC process

• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

• Training or certification in SAFe Agile methodologies

Architecture & Modeling:

• Additional experience working with DoDAF Architecture Views (Service and System level)

• Experience facilitating Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs)

Communication & Collaboration:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Detail-oriented with the ability to communicate technical information clearly across diverse audiences

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.

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.