Senior Systems Integrator

SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Integrator based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to lead systems engineering and integration activities for a Satellite Control Network Advanced Concept and Testing Effort. The Systems Integrator will provide senior-level expertise in systems engineering leadership capacity, driving architecture development, system integration, trade studies, and test planning and execution. This role will foster collaboration with Government program offices, technical teams, and subcontractor partners to ensure the successful delivery of critical space mission capabilities.

This position requires a proven leader with experience integrating complex satellite control systems and mission-critical space systems, along with the ability to work across disciplines and organizations to deliver synchronized results.

Responsibilities:

Define the Mission-Level Outcome:

• Work with stakeholders to define the shared mission outcome, operational needs, and system-level requirements and objectives.
   

Lead System Architecture Development:

• Develop the system architecture by reconciling competing visions, data flows, interfaces, and technical baselines into a mission-aligned technical solution.
• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods to define systems-of-systems architectures and ensure all requirements are traceable to system design.
• Leverage standards-based frameworks, such as the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), to develop views such as OV-1 and SV-1.

Conduct Trade Studies:

• Collaborate with Government stakeholders and internal teams to plan, conduct, and analyze trade studies required to assess alternatives in architecture, system performance, interoperability, system cost, schedule, and technical risk.
• Provide actionable recommendations informed by trade study results to enable effective decision-making by leadership.

Support Test Activities:

• Consult on test planning processes, including the development of test plans, test procedures, and test reports.
• Collaborate with Test Engineers to ensure test execution aligns with integration and mission objectives.
• Lead test witnessing and document actionable recommendations based on system performance during testing.

Facilitate Collaboration Across Teams:

• Build trusted relationships with SAIC personnel, subcontractors, Government customers, and external teams to synchronize deliverables and milestones.
• Serve as the key link between subcontractors, Government stakeholders, and internal teams to promote collaboration and resolve competing priorities.

Synchronize Mission Integration Activities:

• Manage interdependencies between projects and teams, ensuring requirements, milestones, schedules, and commitments converge in support of mission success.
• Facilitate technical interchange meetings (TIMs), trade study forums, dependency reviews, and leadership decisions.
   

Support Risk Management:

• Identify and mitigate risks by driving decision-ready trade space discussions related to architecture, performance, cost, schedule, interoperability, and sustainment.

Required Qualifications:

• Security Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field with fourteen (14) years or more experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant systems engineering/integration experience, particularly in the defense, aerospace, or space systems sectors.
• Proven experience integrating complex satellite systems, Satellite Control Networks (SCN), telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C), or command and control (C2) systems.
• Demonstrated success in conducting trade studies, analyzing alternatives, and providing evidence-based recommendations to guide architecture and system decisions.
• In-depth experience with capturing, analyzing, and reconciling requirements, architecture options, and technical baselines into mission-aligned solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to synchronize milestones and interdependencies across organizations with competing priorities and funding schedules.
• Strong ability to lead technical forums, cross-functional teams, and multi-organization working groups to foster collaboration and create actionable solutions.
• Ability to define and communicate integration entry/exit criteria, ownership boundaries, and responsibility matrices.
• Strong experience creating technical and integration plans and identifying risk points during integration.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of working with technical leads and program-level leaders to drive actionable project decisions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for defining systems-of-systems architectures and traceable requirements.
• Experience developing and delivering DoDAF views, including but not limited to Operational Views (OV-1, OV-2) and System Views (SV-1, SV-2) to communicate system architecture effectively.
• Past experience aligning space-ground systems, Satellite Control Networks (SCN), or other multi-program space missions, working with stakeholders to facilitate fielding and integration of mission capabilities.