Senior Level GEOINT Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior-Level Systems Engineer with hands-on experience across the full Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) lifecycle to support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems. This role is ideal for a strategic, critical thinker who thrives at the intersection of architecture, engineering analysis, and cross-organizational integration.

The successful candidate will bring experience supporting complex government or IC environments and a strong understanding of enterprise architecture, systems integration, and technical planning. Familiarity with the GEOINT TCPED architecture is highly valued. You will play a key role in modernizing GEOINT mission capabilities and shaping future-state enterprise solutions.

What You’ll Do

As part of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division’s Integration Team, you will collaborate with Expert-, Mid-, and Junior-level Engineers and Integrators to conduct high-impact analyses and drive informed investment and modernization decisions.

You will support integration activities across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs), ensuring alignment, synchronization, and documentation of the enterprise baseline—including architecture, requirements, and interfaces. Working within NGA’s Digital Engineering Environment, you will help develop integrated project plans, target-state architectures, CONOPS, roadmaps, epics, and requirements.

You will also participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) supporting modernization efforts across Analytics, Collection Management, Data Services, Foundation GEOINT, and IT, ensuring cohesive solutions and on-time capability delivery.

Key Responsibilities

In partnership with Systems Engineering, Integration, and Architecture teammates, you will:

• Perform architecture gap analyses and develop future-state enterprise architectures

• Conduct engineering analyses to inform GEOINT Mission and IT investment decisions aligned to the enterprise architecture baseline

• Perform baseline analysis and drive requirements allocation, system architecture mapping, and end-to-end traceability

• Capture and translate mission and customer needs into system and capability requirements and solutions

• Execute systems integration activities across organizations, leading and participating in IPTs

• Develop project plans, architecture and engineering artifacts (e.g., CONOPS), schedules, roadmaps, and risk documentation

• Lead and/or participate in Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (COAs), trade studies, and engineering assessments

• Provide thought leadership, identifying opportunities to expand team scope and defining execution plans, deliverables, and timelines

• Participate in NGA governance, configuration management, and risk management processes

• Help define and advance modernized integration processes, promoting agile practices, digital engineering adoption, operational efficiencies, and cross-organizational collaboration

Location: This position is fully onsite with offices in Springfield or Chantilly, VA.

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or a related technical or scientific field, including engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, computer science, information technology, management information systems, or a related STEM discipline

  • 12+ years' of relevant professional experience as a Systems Engineer can be considered in lieu of a degree

• 12+ years' experience in government or industry supporting one or more of the following:

  • DoD or IC Acquisition Processes

  • Requirements development and management

  • PPBES process

  • Systems engineering of large, complex System-of-Systems or Service-Oriented / Cloud environments

• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle

• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a poly.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience or working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED architecture, including data providers, systems/services, interfaces, and data flows

• Knowledge of the NSG/ASG and NRO enterprise environments

• Familiarity with transformational initiatives such as Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Cloud, and Edge Nodes

• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification(s)

• Experience or working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including processes, tools, and modeling languages

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.

$112,000 - $179,000. 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.