Senior Systems Engineer at KBR

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Title: Senior Systems Engineer Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense. KBR is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our small, hand-selected team supporting the Space Data Network Backbone (SDN-B) Program Management Office (PMO) within the US Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Spectrum Warfare Division (SYD 89/SW). You will work on-site, co-located and closely integrated with the Government Customer. An active TS/SCI clearance is required. Key Responsibilities: • Support a broad range of systems engineering activities across the program lifecycle, including system requirements definition, design, interface management, data architecture development, verification and validation, integration, performance analysis, lifecycle cost analysis & estimation, decision analysis, and physical configuration assessments • Serve as customer-facing technical point of contact and as a lead for technical discussions and technical issue resolution. • Coordinate cross-functional and multi-organizational efforts to ensure system architecture and design align with project requirements. • Represent the team in a technical capacity to the government customer and external organizations • Manage integration seams with external stakeholders/users, including the Intelligence Community (IC) and Golden Dome for America (GDA) • Provide general and technical engineering support for the development of operations centers, space vehicles, payloads, and related space systems. • Oversee requirements and interface verification. • Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints • Support development of system engineering items such as CONOPs, requirements definitions, system testing, algorithm document review, and interfaces to other application development efforts • Support the development and refinement of acquisition strategies as well as identifying program execution issues and provide recommendations when possible • Analyze system requirements that define the technical baseline and verification of the technical baseline • Review proposed changes to the technical baseline for impacts to enterprise capabilities and to cross-stakeholder integration concerns • Attend and contribute to program and project management meetings and collaboration sessions • Facilitate communication and prepare/update plans of action and milestones (PoAMs) • Lead problem documentation and problem-solving efforts • Author, review, and coordinate documents and data to aid Government decision-making. • Actively participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings; attend program and technical reviews (e.g., PMRs, PDRs, CDRs, and other milestone and coordination meetings) to provide technical and programmatic system recommendations and risk assessments. Required Skills: • Ten or more years of demonstrated experience in systems engineering • Master's degree or equivalent years of related experience in lieu of a Master's degree • Excellent communication skills, customer relationship skills, organizational skills, and technical proficiencies • De