Lead Systems Integrator

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.

Shall use the Corporate Enterprise Architecture (CEA) as the mechanism for integration, the Expert-level Systems Integrators support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.

 

Duties include:

• Full knowledge of and familiarity with the CEA in order to provide a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies with other corporate/enterprise systems, and requirements of hardware and software components.
• Plans, coordinates, and documents solutions to total systems or subsystems using internally created and/or commercial off-the-shelf products.
• Analyses, designs, tests, and evaluates network systems such as Cloud Resident computing capabilities, satellite networks, local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), the Internet, intranets, and other data communications systems ranging from a connection between two offices in the same building to a globally distributed network of systems.
• Plans and coordinates data management practices to treat and handle data as a resource.
• Assists Government in managing system development efforts, moves or modernization changes including analysis, telecommunications (LAN, WAN, voice, video), planning, cabling, IT and cloud requirements, network security measures, and other factors.
• Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.
• Ensure integration across corporate/business program, segment and project plans, technical roadmaps, and schedules to achieve the delivery of capabilities and effectivities.
• Maintain technical roadmaps against strategic epic planning scope and completion dates. Re-baseline roadmaps in response to changing agency guidance and strategies.
• Ensure integration of solution engineering across time horizons from year of budget execution through the Future Year Defense Program (FYDP and beyond).
• Support government oversight of program development and coordination of CONOPS, technology roadmap planning, architecture development, cross segment / cross Agency interface definitions, requirements definition, decomposition, allocation to and development by programs, segments, and projects, and enterprise-level verification and validation, transition to operations and retirement activities.
• Support end to end system integration and acceptance necessary for Major System Acquisitions (MSAs) of corporate/business systems.
• Support program, segment, and project level technical reviews, perform technology readiness assessments, and attend Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) to assess enterprise integration challenges.
• Review corporate/business system integration documentation for accuracy, completeness, and harmony with enterprise integration efforts. Coordinate needed changes with appropriate program, segment, and project offices.
• Support the transition of new corporate/business services and capabilities to operations and identify gaps in toolsets and automation used to test and deliver those services and capabilities. Identify gaps or new needs for automated test capabilities to address incoming capabilities.
• Provide developers guidance and recommendation on service virtualization, and service APIs for enterprise systems.
• In collaboration with Enterprise Risk Management, performed on the NGA Foundational Engineering Contract, identify enterprise-level risks, opportunities and issues associated with enterprise integration and assist in risk mitigation. Must understand the CEA and the Acquisition Process to operate at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces across organizational and agency boundaries

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or 18 years of work experience as a Systems Integrator.
• 18+ years of working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with leadership, orchestration, communication, engagement, and critical thinking skills.
• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• IC or DoD program/project work experience.

$135,000 - $216,000. 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.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

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